Chris Oxford
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Does anyone here know much about this gun. I recently purchased one. Ii love the caliber, I've had lots of 40's. I just don't know much about this one. I know that it's built like a tank.
Does anyone here know much about this gun. I recently purchased one. Ii love the caliber, I've had lots of 40's. I just don't know much about this one. I know that it's built like a tank.
But yes is this aluminum or steel framed that was my main question it's heavy but I like that about it.
good guns, I just picked a 9mm P239 up a few weeks ago. Very soft shooter. I can't say how accurate mine is because it has some funky aftermarket i-dot sight that I absolutely hate and can't shoot with for beans, but it was very reliable when I shot it, despite my not being able to hit anything. Not a single malfunction in the 200 or so rounds I put through it, and those were cast lead reloads of varying strength from mild to full power.
Buy extra mags now. They are still available for $30 or so, but they won't be for long.
As other people here have said, other options, some of them by Sig itself, rendered the P239 obsolete as a CCW. If you must have a hammer, a Sig P938 is much smaller, and only gives up one round to the P239. A Sig P365 is tiny compared to the P239, carries 2 more rounds in a flush fit magazine, and is significantly lighter. The P239 really had no market niche in which it remained competitive.
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Once sig released the P365, the writing was on the wall for the P239.
2 more rounds and 7 less ounces for the P365 on the left.
I've been hoarding speer gold dot 40 ammo for a long time now. I've got 2 other 40 's.Great handgun but 40 s&w? Don’t you know it’s obsolete? You’ll never find ammo for it.
I got 4 magazines with it too.good guns, I just picked a 9mm P239 up a few weeks ago. Very soft shooter. I can't say how accurate mine is because it has some funky aftermarket i-dot sight that I absolutely hate and can't shoot with for beans, but it was very reliable when I shot it, despite my not being able to hit anything. Not a single malfunction in the 200 or so rounds I put through it, and those were cast lead reloads of varying strength from mild to full power.
Buy extra mags now. They are still available for $30 or so, but they won't be for long.
As other people here have said, other options, some of them by Sig itself, rendered the P239 obsolete as a CCW. If you must have a hammer, a Sig P938 is much smaller, and only gives up one round to the P239. A Sig P365 is tiny compared to the P239, carries 2 more rounds in a flush fit magazine, and is significantly lighter. The P239 really had no market niche in which it remained competitive.
View attachment 1088950
Once sig released the P365, the writing was on the wall for the P239.
2 more rounds and 7 less ounces for the P365 on the left.
Thanks so muchI had one in 357SIG. They are good guns and shooters.
My only complaint with them was the grip panels are a tad narrow and need some swell through the palm. With the factory panels on the gun, it liked to squirm around in my hand when I shot it. I put a set of Houges on it and that solved the problem.
One thing you will want to watch if youre buying mags is, the early mags were caliber specific, and the 357SIG mags wont allow you to load 40's (the 40 mags work with the 357SIG). Those 357SIG mags had an offset in the mag body at the bottleneck of the round. Later on, they stopped doing the offset, and the mags for the 40 and 357SIG would take both without issue and are marked with both.
I'm a big .40S&W fan, too. I reload, so I don't have to hoard, plenty of brass and bullets available. I don't know much about the Sig, but I have two .40's, used to have a third but a friend was interested in it so I sold it to him, it's a discontinued model (SR40C Ruger). What are your other .40's? My EDC is a SA 1911 EMP4 in .40, and I also have a BHP in .40.I've been hoarding speer gold dot 40 ammo for a long time now. I've got 2 other 40 's.
silicosys4: said:Once sig released the P365, the writing was on the wall for the P239
One thing you will want to watch if youre buying mags is, the early mags were caliber specific, and the 357SIG mags wont allow you to load 40's (the 40 mags work with the 357SIG). Those 357SIG mags had an offset in the mag body at the bottleneck of the round. Later on, they stopped doing the offset, and the mags for the 40 and 357SIG would take both without issue and are marked with both.
I have a Smith and Wesson sigma in 40. And I have a Glock in 40. I'm really into the 40 thing. I've got a Rock Island Armory that is tricked out. It's in 10mm. I also have a kel Tec p40 in 40 Smith. That gun is very small about the same size as a little 380. Believe me when I say it's will deliver a jolt in recoil.I'm a big .40S&W fan, too. I reload, so I don't have to hoard, plenty of brass and bullets available. I don't know much about the Sig, but I have two .40's, used to have a third but a friend was interested in it so I sold it to him, it's a discontinued model (SR40C Ruger). What are your other .40's? My EDC is a SA 1911 EMP4 in .40, and I also have a BHP in .40.
I have a Smith and Wesson sigma in 40. And I have a Glock in 40. I'm really into the 40 thing. I've got a Rock Island Armory that is tricked out. It's in 10mm. I also have a kel Tec p40 in 40 Smith. That gun is very small about the same size as a little 380. Believe me when I say it's will deliver a jolt in recoil.
SIG came out with the 239 about 30 years ago, as best I can remember. Back then they primarily made duty size guns that were not very concealable. The first offering in the 239 was in 9MM. I bought one, new, at a big box store in Florida for around $550 out the door...big bucks back in the day. SIG’s marketing effort was advertising them as “personal size” pistols.
Don’t remember when they came out with the 40, but I acquired one of those, part of SIG’s, Certified Pre-owned program, on GB back about 2008. Almost identical in size except that the slide is a bit taller and heavier. My 40 looked like new...still does. One of the things I like about the 40 is that you can easily convert it to 357 SIG just by changing the barrel. If I were going to take a handgun to a gunfight it would be a 357 SIG...although my first inclination would be to take a long gun to a gunfight...would bring some friends with long guns too! The 357 SIG round is extremely effective for its intended purpose. That said if all I had was a 40 I don’t think I would run around feeling sorry for myself.