I recently purchased a SAR 4.5" 16+1 polymer-framed, SA/DA B6P. I wanted a cheap gun to keep in my car. I normally pocket carry a Rohrbaugh R9 and I can't really deploy it from a sitting position. I wanted a gun that I could access quickly while in my vehicle. Since I wouldn't be carrying it, weight and size weren't much of a factor so I wanted a full-sized pistol. Almost everything else I have is 9mm (besides .22LR), so I wanted to stick with 9mm. I also wanted something really cheap and not something that I would worry about exposing to the heat, humidity and freezing temperatures of sitting in my car.
I just used Internet search tools like Gun Watcher and SlickGuns to price sort all 9mm from low to high. At the bottom of the price range are derringers, then Hi-Points, then the Century Arms Zastava M88 / Yugo M70, then there was the SCCY, Kel-Tec and Diamondback DB9 all coming in at around $200.00, then there are the Taurus, and then there is the Sarsilmaz offerings – imported by EAA.
At one time the SAO version of the SAR B6P was on sale for $240.00 with free shipping, and that is what initially caught my attention, but I didn't know enough about the pistol at the time to just purchase it, the sale expired and I missed my chance. But I started researching it. I read all of the reviews I could and watched most of the YouTube reviews I could – some folks on YouTube have no business doing gun reviews, they either don't know about firearms, or they don't know how to do a presentation, so I didn't watch every single review on the B6P that is out there. BTW – I did like Rusty Shackleford's tabletop summary of the B6P. After I researched the pistol I decided it was a good buy at $240.00 Unfortunately it didn't go on sale again for that price for months and months.
I purchased the pistol for a total of $241.43 from Sportsman Guide. Sportsman's Guide really plays around with prices and different numbers. They advertised a price of $237.49 but that is with membership to their buyer's club which is $29.99 per year and the regular price is $249.99 plus $9.99 shipping but then I received an offer to join the buyers club for 6 months free and as part of that they would waive shipping fees but then they add a $9.99 fee for firearms period – so when you are dealing with Sportsman Guide you really have to get out your calculator and start adding and subtracting all of their different prices, deals, discounts, offers, fees and everything to see if the gun really is a good deal or not. When all the adding and subtracting was done, I ended up spending $241.43 for the B6P
I just used Internet search tools like Gun Watcher and SlickGuns to price sort all 9mm from low to high. At the bottom of the price range are derringers, then Hi-Points, then the Century Arms Zastava M88 / Yugo M70, then there was the SCCY, Kel-Tec and Diamondback DB9 all coming in at around $200.00, then there are the Taurus, and then there is the Sarsilmaz offerings – imported by EAA.
At one time the SAO version of the SAR B6P was on sale for $240.00 with free shipping, and that is what initially caught my attention, but I didn't know enough about the pistol at the time to just purchase it, the sale expired and I missed my chance. But I started researching it. I read all of the reviews I could and watched most of the YouTube reviews I could – some folks on YouTube have no business doing gun reviews, they either don't know about firearms, or they don't know how to do a presentation, so I didn't watch every single review on the B6P that is out there. BTW – I did like Rusty Shackleford's tabletop summary of the B6P. After I researched the pistol I decided it was a good buy at $240.00 Unfortunately it didn't go on sale again for that price for months and months.
I purchased the pistol for a total of $241.43 from Sportsman Guide. Sportsman's Guide really plays around with prices and different numbers. They advertised a price of $237.49 but that is with membership to their buyer's club which is $29.99 per year and the regular price is $249.99 plus $9.99 shipping but then I received an offer to join the buyers club for 6 months free and as part of that they would waive shipping fees but then they add a $9.99 fee for firearms period – so when you are dealing with Sportsman Guide you really have to get out your calculator and start adding and subtracting all of their different prices, deals, discounts, offers, fees and everything to see if the gun really is a good deal or not. When all the adding and subtracting was done, I ended up spending $241.43 for the B6P
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