Posted: 12/12/2010 8:19:43 AM EDT
| I'm not trying to seel this gun on AR15 but I'm curious when I do list it what kind of dollars should I expect? I bought this new still have the orginal box and it's a like new West German Serial U391XXX. I only fired this one time and spent a box of 50 thru it. I don't remember the exact date I bought it I think I have the reciept but I would guess in 1987. |
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Gun is orginal and in 95% condition or better no night sights just the white dots I'm not sure those were even available back when I bought it. Which was 89' I figured out. I bought my first 226 at the same time , didn't have KKote available the day I was impulse shopping (December 26th, 1989), but it came with factory installed Trijicon 'siglite' night sights. I paid $639.89, including tax... |
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I just bought a German Sig P226 New In The Box for $625 from the original owner.
It was originally bought in 1993 for $587 or there abouts (too lazy to get the paperwork out). One of the "zipper-backed" mags is in the box still completely sealed the other is in the gun. All paper work and target included. It was been sitting in a safe all this time. Bill |
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Some reasons for low price appreciation. They made too many for much collector value. Maybe in another 80 years. New models are being made every day that sell for a couple hundred more and are very similar. Parts are begining to dry up for the older models.
Once in a while you may find a guy that wants a new one for a collection so if you are selling at the time a collector is looking you might get a ransom for it. If you have the original test target and it has a tiny group that would be worth extra $ to shooters like me because I am a user of sigs and not a collector. I own a used model myself and use it as a shooter. I'm close to retiring my first sig 220. |
| Just bought a newer model non- railed with external extractor and stainless steel milled slide for $500 del .off the EE. Guy said he had maybe 1-2 hundred rounds out of it. I think the only 226 that is totally collectable is the non railed Navy nsw models . They bring $1000 NIB . |
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Just the fact that you can sell a 20 year old used non collectable P226 for the same price roughly as you originally paid for it says a lot. Try selling just about anything else that is used and 20 years old for what you paid for it new that is not collectable.
That said, a original style german made P226 with the folded slide rather than the stainless slide is probably the best version of the P226 you could have. Except maybe a P226 X5 but I hardly consider that the same kind of P226. |
| I'll have to say I've always really liked it but consealed carry it's just to large so I ended up buying a Khar MK9 with night sights. Nice little compact gun but heavy so I since have moved onto the SW 340 down to five shots but if I hit with that 357 it's really going to hurt. |