SIG GSR (dunno exactly which one) for $649 ??

[takhtakaal]

Stopped in a Gander Mountain this evening and found a two-tone (looked like a parked slide over stainless) GSR 5" with a solid trigger, non-ambi safety, checkered wood grips, and plain three-dot sights for $649, supposedly down $250 in their big inventory clearance sale that's currently running.

The guy told me that this was a "corporate acquisition," that SIG had taken this in and fixed something wrong with it and then sold it at wholesale to GM. I figure that SIG's policy is first to fix and then return, before they replace anything outright. Would you take a risk on this thing, especially with the price that's on it?

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

For that price it is either used (although if it is a SIG CPO it will have a limited factory warranty), or they just want to get rid of it.

My personal experience with a GSR

Considering the price (a good $250 off) I might give it a qualified thumbs up if it is not an early model with the "manhole cover" in the slide. This is a small circular plug with two holes in it (for a special spanner wrench) on the right side of the slide behind the grasping serrations, used to access firing pin safety parts. This (along with the accompanying firing pin safety parts) is one of the parts that flew out of my first gun, which prompted its replacement by SIG.