The Sig P239

Is this model popular in your area? What sort of money do these bring?

I always liked the 239 and have a 9mm and a 40 and a 357 Sig extra barrel. When you get used to the de cocker on the Sig it becomes second nature. You will find them in different conditions but 400 and up into the 600 range can be expected.

I bought a nice blue one in 9mm with two mags at an estate auction a couple of years or so ago for $350.

In my former career when I went into a detective unit, we were allowed to qualify and carry a P239 in 40 S&W. In uniform we carried a P226 in 40. Always thought the 226 was the nicest shooting DA/SA semi I ever shot. Then I had the chance to use the 239. I shot that even better, as it just fit my hands perfectly. We eventually went to M&P 45s and I had to turn both in. A few years ago, a close friend passed away and left me a few of his firearms, including a like new, German made 239 in 40 S&W. I still have it and cherish it. I don't pay alot of attention to semis when I walk into a LGS, as I'm more interested in revolvers, but that said, I don't think I have seen one for sale locally, ever. Bill in MA

Congratulations on a fine addition to the family

Yours is an early two tone. Originally SIG nickel plated the slide, controls, trigger and hammer so that they all would match. The later two tones are just slides that they did not coat in Nitron. I think the older ones look much better

I have many P239s, all of mine are chambered for the 357SIG cartridge.

I fell in love with the cartridge when I was working out in Dallas County. At the time Texas DPS was evaluating it for their next duty round and I got considerable early experience.

The initial duty gun was the P226, but several years later the P239 was adapted for Detectives and the Brass that wanted/needed a smaller firearm.

Here are some of my P239s. My DPS P239 is the one with the 405 inventory number on it.

The P239 is a VERY robust and accurate firearm. I keep my hard chromed P239 in my vehicle as a backup(the bottom one in the group photo)

The slide weight really tames the recoil of a smaller sidearm. If you have not shot it yet, you will be pleased.

As to price in my area? I have no idea, I stopped buying them before the China Virus Crisis hit us


If you did not know, the US Secret Service used the SIGs and 357SIG cartridge for many years. Even in the protection of our President, They did 125 commemeratives for awards and stuff

All of the P239 pistols share barrel dimensions, so you can take a Factory 9MM barrel and drop it in your 357/40 pistol, You can even use the same springs and I know that the 357SIG marked magazines work perfectly. Others have told me that the 40S&W marked magazines also work just fine with the 9MM ammunition

I bought one of the factory threaded 9MM barrels just so I could use my can on the pistol. I also put the Nills grips on that particular two tone P239
Sometime after the adoption of the P239, DPS want more capacity so SIG made a run of 8 round magazines. These were not the commercial blue mags, they were phosphate coated for better corrosion resistance. These came to us in a big cardboard box with the mags just heat sealed in little baggies


SIG Greatly Over Estimated the demand for these longer mags and began selling the internals with the longer base plate as a plus-1 kit fit the 357 and 40 magazines.

Here is my Hard Chromed P239 with the longer mag, i actually like the little extension it gives

The P239 is a great gun the only drawback is magazine capacity. You MUST try a set of Hogue rubber grips vs stock. Total game changer. The .357/.40 caliber has a beefier slide than 9mm and can affect holster fit - see photos. They are a fine combat handgun. My 9mm has the DAK trigger system. Both have the XS big dot sights.
The .357 Sig was my retirement gun from PD where we carried P226 9mm. Carry gun at my second career until I obtained the 9mm DAK.

I traded for my P239 about 5 years ago. Great gun! I really like it. I carried it for a while as an experiment. But ended up going back to my .45 Colt Commander as it wasn't much bigger.
A quick check of GB has them ranging around $500-800 depending on caliber. .357 Sig seems to bring the highest while .40 S&W or DAK versions selling for the least.

A few have come up in my area within the past year, and were going in the 750 range. I scored mine a few years back for around 500. Mags are kinda hard to come by, I managed to find 4 last year and happily paid the 40 apiece the gentleman was asking. I had Rob Leahy build a CID holster for it with the inside out straps. I barely notice it's there when I'm carrying it.

The gun is far more accurate than I am!

Bought new at Lou's Police Supply years ago by our boy.
Think it was around $500.
Night sights and 3 mags but the sights no longer glow.

Shoots nice and has a low round count, maybe 100, so it's a safe queen along with his G36.

Pics of Sig in 9mm with Ruger Officer in 45.

I believe that value has gone down on these. As usual I inquired about value at a gun store and was told $400 at best retail. Don't really agree with that. They are good guns. Added night sights to mine. They are heavy for their size. You can buy a new fantastic plastic for the same retail. Not getting rid of mine! Bob

I love the 239’s. I’ve had 3, but only still have one. It’s my original .357 Sig that I bought for $500 several years ago. I bought a .40 for $500 back in 2019 and a 9mm in 2021 for $450. I see them pop up on Florida gun trader and armslist semi frequently for anywhere from $600 up to $850 for a pimped out Scorpion SAS 9mm model. The Scorpion was fairly recent, and if it had been a .357 Sig, I might have snagged it. In the past couple of years, $600 is the lowest asking price I’ve seen, but don’t know what they ended up going for.

My 239 9mm is a trade-in from a California law enforcement agency and was reconditioned before resale. I later added the Short Reset Trigger kit. I rarely see them for sale here. I think the last one I saw for sale was .40 S&W and that has been quite ways back.


I like DA/SA Semi-automatic pistols which are not in vogue at the moment. This topic does remind me that I should do a magazine inventory.

The P239 is one of those guns that many just overlook and don't know what they are missing. Heavy for its size, yet compact enough and still large enough to consider it a fighting gun and not necessarily a "backup". It really shines in .357sig and when you put on a set of Crimson Trace laser grips, it feels and handles amazing. I could give or take the actual laser. The grips just change the game as far as tactile feel.

I had a couple over the years in 9mm. Those were the years where I wasn't able to just keep every gun that came along, so they were eventually traded or sold off. In 9mm, it's an unnecessarily heavy gun. Now I'm blessed to be able to pretty much keep whatever I come across, so I'm down to one in .357sig. I've added standard factory barrel in .40 and a threaded factory barrel in 9mm with extended capacity magazines as well. It's basically a "kit" gun now, that I can enjoy with three different calibers. Having grown up in my career on the P series Sig's, the controls and ergonomics are second nature.

In summary, I'm a fan.

They're great guns, but my uses they're oversized and heavy with their capacity by today's standards. I had one in blue and stainless, but sold them after smaller and higher capacity guns started becoming more common.

They are great guns, and they've certainly not gone down in value. Four or five years ago you could get very nice examples for $400-$500, now it's more like $700+. Capacity isn't an issue, neither is weight. The real issue is that in true Sig fashion when they stopped producing the 239 they also stopped supporting them with parts and mags all together. This made the cost of parts, barrels and mags skyrocket. If you can get one in the caliber you want with a half dozen mags it will serve you well for your lifetime. But don't pass up spare parts if you find them, JIC...

Here's the 9mm P239 with my goto fishing gun, unless I'm in a kayak.
Bought the M59 and stopped carrying the Colt GM/45 around '81, as ya never know who and how many will float ashore in the Keys at night.
More ammo and flatter shooting.

The P239 kinda looks top heavy, like a 10,000 passenger cruise ship.

I'm a 239 fan also. This one in 40S&W DAO model is my living room gun that's sitting here next to me as I write this.

Expensive and hard to find magazines are a problem with the 239. When I got my gun I went searching the internet and was quite disappointed. However, I went to the LGS and it turns out that they had them in stock at very reasonable prices.

Sig made great guns.... I've still got 220s, 245s. and a 229 with both .40 and .357 barrels.

Passed on the 239 and 225s in favor of the slightly smaller and lighter S&W 3913/14s and NLs.

Another 239 fan here, I used to CCW the 9mm version. The 9mm 239 was intended to compete with the S&W 3913 back in the day. Prices vary and in store availability in the used cases tends to be low. I've occasionally seen the NYPD authorized DAO versions pop up as an ex-cop wants to sell. There was some concerns about magazine availability but gun mag warehouse is showing some .40 cal ones in stock.