Sig P-225 questions on slides

[billbrasky]

Originally Posted by Kaboom

You know what. You can send that into Sig and they will replace all the springs and such ( no major parts ) and function check it, add night sights for a bit over $100. If the finish is really good and it has no major mechanical issues it might be both the cheapest and easiest way to go.

but long term is there any sense in buying a rebuild kit and just sitting on it. Will sig service this gun in 10 years? Or will i be S.O.L. and i will be dependent on what ever is left on the market at that point, and the prices will be grossly inflated.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by billbrasky

but long term is there any sense in buying a rebuild kit and just sitting on it. Will sig service this gun in 10 years? Or will i be S.O.L. and i will be dependent on what ever is left on the market at that point, and the prices will be grossly inflated.

If it makes you feel good, buy a set of springs, maybe a firing pin, and put them away. They do not take up much space.

The primary replacement item on sigs is ammo.

[Tercel89]

thanks for the help guys , looks like I am gonna get it .

[Brickboy240]

All of the early W. German and Swiss made SIG P-series autos had sheet metal slides. Most SIG fans (like me) actually prefer these to the solid slide P-series guns made in NH. The solid slide guns feel top-heavy to me.

I believe all P225s have sheet metal slides. Every police issue P225 or P6 that I have ever seen has a sheet metal slide.

I really wouldn't sweat this at all, because think of how many of these were made that way and were heavily used and the failures of sheet metal slides were barely ever heard of.

The P225 is probably the most common police pistol in all of Europe and the UK (that has changed recently...but this was true for decades) and the British SAS and several other military units (the Swedes) used the sheet metal slide P226s and they would have dumped them if they were problematic. The Secret Service and many SWAT units throughout the USA carried P228s and P226s with sheet metal slides and again...no widespread problems from the slide construction.

Most SIG collectors and fanatics prefer the sheet metal slide guns to the newer solid slide P-Series SIGs. I know I do. Although I do admit that the solid slide P229 40 that I borrowed had pretty tame recoil for a 40 and I attributed it partly to the heavy solid slide.

Both of my SIGs (the Swiss P225 and W. German P220 Euro) have sheet metal slides and again...no problems. Both my SIGs were made in the late 70s/early 80s and if there was going to be a problem...you'd think it would have shown itself by now. Not true. In fact, I have found these early SIGs to be very tough and very reliable and well made guns.

So blaze away and don't sweat the sheet metal slides on your P6s...I doubt you'll be able to blow them up.

- Brickboy240

[Tercel89]

Man , I went back looked at it again and i swear it doesnt look stamped to me , and I know its a police/military used one . Its got 82 stamped on it , I guess from 1982 . Down inside the slide there are swirl marks like from a metal grinding machine that would grind away metal from bar-stock steel . So , anyways thats my observations , but I definitly will get her! Thanks for all the help and you too Brickboy .

[LUVMYSIGP225]

Yes, they made a milled slide P225. A quick way to tell other than tooling marks is to disassemble, remove the barrel, and check for absence of welds on the inside of the gun near the muzzle aperture. Generally, these models were shipped new in Gray and Black Sig cardboard box with Red print. But not always.

My buddy's is milled. All of mine are stamped\rolled. I will take mine stamped, thanks.

[Tercel89]

Originally Posted by LUVMYSIGP225

Yes, they made a milled slide P225. A quick way to tell other than tooling marks is to disassemble, remove the barrel, and check for absence of welds on the inside of the gun near the muzzle aperture. Generally, these models were shipped new in Gray and Black Sig cardboard box with Red print. But not always.

My buddy's is milled. All of mine are stamped\rolled. I will take mine stamped, thanks.

Oh I am not worried about it anymore , from what you all have said , It seems just fine . I just cant tell just from looking at it that its stamped . I mean when I look at my Norinco MAK-90 , I can see that its reciever was stamped . But the slide on this Sig is thick.

[Muddflap]

My 245, and 220, both .45, have the folded steel slides. I worry more about the sun going out than I do about the slides on either one of those guns, and they are both used. There are a lot of Sig folks out there that think the folded steel slides are best.

I just cant tell just from looking at it that its stamped .

Look at post number 6. That's the easiest way to tell. The satinless slides don't have the seperate piece at the back of the ejection port.

[Brickboy240]

Yes, the solid piece at the back of the ejection port on a P-Series is a dead give-away for a sheet metal slide. SIG's welding and assembly is so good, you cannot tell that they're folded metal from the outside..a testament to the construction of the W. German and Swiss P-series guns.

Are you sure about the solid slide P225s? I have never seen one.

- brickboy240

[billbrasky]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

Yes, the solid piece at the back of the ejection port on a P-Series is a dead give-away for a sheet metal slide. SIG's welding and assembly is so good, you cannot tell that they're folded metal from the outside..a testament to the construction of the W. German and Swiss P-series guns.

Are you sure about the solid slide P225s? I have never seen one.

- brickboy240

they fooled me, when tercel said they had milled ones also i said this bad boy is pretty beefy i dont see a weld line, i musta lucked out. I am satisfied, its very stout gun. I could only break it if i abused the hell out of it, and even then i might not be able to hurt the slide. Too think i almost didnt buy it, and i am quite smitten with it, now that i have it in hand.