A Question for "Team 3rd Gen"...
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Easy answer, I have over a dozen 3rd gens, and just ordered a new Sig P220 Match Elite 10mm
Easy answer, I have over a dozen 3rd gens, and just ordered a new Sig P220 Match Elite 10mm
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To answer the OPs question..I would buy and am currently still hunting an early model Sig P220 from W Germany.
1st.. Sigs are awesome handguns. At least the older ones are.
2nd I was stationed in W Germany when the P220 was 1st in use so I have always had a hankering to own one. So that's my answer..simple and straight forward.
1st.. Sigs are awesome handguns. At least the older ones are.
2nd I was stationed in W Germany when the P220 was 1st in use so I have always had a hankering to own one. So that's my answer..simple and straight forward.
Just when I was about to declare the snub & mid-size revolver votes to be the clear winner over everything else, we see a late surge in the Sig votes!
I still think the amazing thing so far is the very few votes coming in for plastic wonder pistols from any manufacturer.
Clearly, members of "Team 3rd Gen" love their heavy metal!
I still think the amazing thing so far is the very few votes coming in for plastic wonder pistols from any manufacturer.
Clearly, members of "Team 3rd Gen" love their heavy metal!
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I still think the amazing thing so far is the very few votes coming in for plastic wonder pistols from any manufacturer.
Clearly, members of "Team 3rd Gen" love their heavy metal!
You can Leed a 3rd gen lover to plastic, but you can't make him buy it![emoji3]
Having tried 3 Glocks in the 90s .......just can't bring myself to "want" a striker fired pistol.......we've had the discussion before..... I might go for a polymer framed 3913, 6906 or 5904/915
Hold on Bam while I find out if our crappy Massachusetts "Cabela's-lite" store carries plastic 9mm 3rd Gens.
{calling, calling, calling, calling...}
Nope, they said they don't.
Any other ideas?
Maybe for something plastic that actually exists? 
Hold on Bam while I find out if our crappy Massachusetts "Cabela's-lite" store carries plastic 9mm 3rd Gens.
{calling, calling, calling, calling...}
Nope, they said they don't.
Any other ideas?
Never said they existed; just said I'd look at one if they did!!!!
Isn't Sig making what amounts to polymer versions of the "old" 220 series?
I'm sorry Bam.
From all the "wishful thinking" talk around here, I thought I might have missed something. Not that I'm aware of.
The P250 is DAO... and despite being cheap enough and available in "MA-compliant", it does absolutely nothing for me. Ozark Marine
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I really like the Sig-P250. From the sub to full size. Any caliber. Also check out the Sig SP 2022. A DA/SA. I have one in .40 cal. for sale. The Tac-Pac edition. Siglite sights, Sig laser/light, 2 mags, holster and 2 extra back straps. Try it, you'll like it.
The truth be known, I probably should have bought a Sig SP2022 in 9mm 2 or 3 years ago.
Lord knows I thought about it enough... and even as retirement dirt poor as I was and still am, I probably could have afforded it. I mean, wasn't that the point after all? 
An affordable Sig 226 substitute for the unwashed masses? But I've always had a weird relationship (or non-relationship) with Sig as a company and with their products. Hard to explain it all without writing a book. I tried the P250 and just couldn't get into it. I had a chance to pick one up so cheap that I could have bought it just to use as a "Boston Buyback" turn-in gun and still made money on the deal.
In fact, maybe that's the problem. If the owner thought so very little of it, why should I have thought it any better? 
Now the P320 (not yet MA-compliant) has come along and no one seems to want a P250 anymore. I guess that's the way it is with modern plastic wonders.
What's new and desirable today is tomorrow's "has-been" in the bargain bin. I probably need to add a disclaimer that says: "Unless I state otherwise, virtually all of my opinions with respect to post-1998 handguns are based on MA-compliant models with (usually) hideously terrible MA-compliant triggers."
So please keep that in mind. Arik
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The 250 actually never gained much traction and quickly fell to the bottom shelf of the polymer guns. There were problems from the beginning. The 320 is what the 250 should have been.The truth be known, I probably should have bought a Sig SP2022 in 9mm 2 or 3 years ago.
I tried the P250 and just couldn't get into it. I had a chance to pick one up so cheap that I could have bought it just to use as a "Boston Buyback" turn-in gun and still made money on the deal. [emoji14] In fact, maybe that's the problem. If the owner thought so very little of it, why should I have thought it any better?
Now the P320 (not yet MA-compliant) has come along and no one seems to want a P250 anymore. I guess that's the way it is with modern plastic wonders.
You can get good prices on used Sig legacy P series. Used LEO 220s go for around $350 - $400. 226 around $450 and 228/229 $450 - $550. Can't say how much they would be in MA
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That's what everyone is saying.
Inadvertently, I "dissed" the P320 in a post I wrote a while back, mixing it up with the P250 (I blame creeping senility). I have since corrected that post. I have yet to get my hands on a P320 to try, MA-compliant or otherwise. I'm not usually one for used (bought sight unseen) ex-cop guns.
I always manage to get screwed. But I have found some slightly used Sigs in very nice shape locally. By comparison to brand new, they were a bargain... but they were both still way above my limited financial means. I saw that both of them sold last month...
... so they are no longer on my Want List. Arik
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The ones I was referring to are all local bought or seen, not online ordering.
Yeah, nothing around here in the price ranges you mentioned.
The best I could come up with in a decent (older style) used P220 was $600 and that was at a show. The lowest dealer price locally on a P220 as we speak is $650. 
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Ouch. Last year I bought a used W. German 220 for $320. It was a cop gun so it did have holster wear but I didn't buy it for its looks or I would have just bought a new one. The same store has another one now for about the same price. Saturday I was at another lgs which had three 229s. Two in 40, one 9. All three in the $550 rangeYeah, nothing around here in the price ranges you mentioned.
Arik....Good luck with that W. German 220....mine about 87/88 will shoot cloverleafs at 50ft.
Well, again, remember our Massachusetts laws, lists and regs. That could explain at least part of the price differences. The P220 in current form *is* on our EOPS list, so it is not banned from dealer sale. But a lot of competing guns are banned from dealer sale. The more limited your choices get, the higher the price put on the available alternatives.
Also don't forget our AWB and limit of 10-rounds in a post-ban magazine. While it doesn't affect the P220, it does affect other Sigs and our ability to import them.
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