New Sig P239 SAS in the house!

[tlawler]

I’m a big P239 fan and found this one earlier in the week. Yesterday after taking off a couple hours early from work, I made the 4 hour trip from Tampa to Pompano Beach to pick it up. I got it for $500 and it came with 4 msgs, a Dillon range bag and a few holsters including a Crossbreed Crosstuck(I think it’s called). I’ve wanted an SAS version for awhile now. It’s .40 S&W, but my other 239 is .357, so I can swap some parts around and come up with what I want. I’ve never compared 239’s side by side before, but the SAS is so smooth and rounded compared to the blocky regular 239. Almost 450 miles round trip and back to Port Charlotte, but well worth it, I think.

Here’s my other 239 for comparison.

 

[VictorLouis]

Smokin' deal on a fantastic gat! I used to live/work near Pompano, and your Port Charlotte is a little gem on the west coast.

 

[Jimmyjones]

I'm a fan of the P239, have 2 in 9mm and one in .357 with a spare .40 cal barrel.

 

[ColumbusJBR]

Nice score. Those are truly nice pistols.

 

[colt_saa]

Congratulations on a great addition to the family

I too am a big fan of the P239 especially in the 357SIG caliber

I have quite a few of them myself including one of the early SAS models.

The hard chromed version in the photograph below is actually with me every single day and has been for the past 20 years

 

[tlawler]

I gave both the P239’s a good cleaning and swapped the .357 Sig barrel and stocks onto the SAS frame. All ready for the range

 

[Baxter6551]

Congrats on your purchase. Great gun.
My wife bought me a P239 in .357 Sig for a retirement gun. Became my carry gun in a second career as an Investigator for a private Armored Security company. I added a used 9mm DAK purchased from another employee. Both have XS Big Dot sights and Hogue Grips which totally change the shooting comfort of the gun. Shot both guns at Sig Academy schools and during company training and shooting events. Only drawback is ammo capacity but they perform. The .357 slide is thicker and holster fit can different.

 

[.455_Hunter]

It was a sad day when they were discontinued.

 

[ladder13]

This NCSHP 357 Sigs were issued to the NC Gov’s detail. Well, not this one, as new in case with 3 mags.

And its big brother NCSHP P226 in 357 Sig

 

[tlawler]

Range report

I finally got it to the range today and ran it through its paces. Shot 70 rounds of 125 grain Montana Gold JHP’s over 9.0 grains of Longshot. Avg. velocity out of the 3.6” barrel was 1367 fps.(with the same load, I got a 1445 fps avg. out of a 4.25” M&P barrel) It was a pleasure to shoot, not much difference than my standard P239 as opposed to the SAS version, so it was familiar to me. I shot the M&P first, and really liked the full grip purchase you can get and never noticed how much my pinkie slipped around on the P239 until after shooting the M&P. Never the less, I think my grouping was a little tighter with the P239 despite the slipping pinkie factor.