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Posted: 8/11/2017 12:54:29 AM EDT

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You'll want to hang on to that for the rest of your life.

Posted: 8/11/2017 12:57:29 AM EDT

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At work so no pic's at the moment but yep all four are and they have the little spots from spot welds on the back as well.

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Better go get that 225. Post up a pic of the back of your mags. Zipper?

At work so no pic's at the moment but yep all four are and they have the little spots from spot welds on the back as well.

you scored big. good job!

Posted: 8/11/2017 1:02:58 AM EDT

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Oh.....you can no longer find extractors for them. Sig will replace them.....but no one carries them anymore. Maybe $100 on ebay.

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$100? For real?

Posted: 8/11/2017 1:12:16 AM EDT

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Yes, had to be either 9mm or .38 spl. I had bought this gun a few years earlier while in college. Before we deployed, first unit to takeoff for the war btw, it was announced that we'd be able to carry personal firearms. There was a big run on every gunstore in Myrtle Beach by a bunch of pilots. Kinda funny.

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Wasn't the M9 standard issue for pilots? I wonder what that says about how pilots felt about it.

Posted: 8/11/2017 2:01:36 AM EDT

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I know I sold mine to cheaply when I posted it up for sale in the middle of the night and had like 3 "I'll take its" within an hour

They are good guns it's just I've never been a big Sig fan.

Posted: 8/11/2017 2:21:58 AM EDT

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Yes, had to be either 9mm or .38 spl. I had bought this gun a few years earlier while in college. Before we deployed, first unit to takeoff for the war btw, it was announced that we'd be able to carry personal firearms. There was a big run on every gunstore in Myrtle Beach by a bunch of pilots. Kinda funny.

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Very nice. They allowed you to carry personal sidearms?

Yes, had to be either 9mm or .38 spl. I had bought this gun a few years earlier while in college. Before we deployed, first unit to takeoff for the war btw, it was announced that we'd be able to carry personal firearms. There was a big run on every gunstore in Myrtle Beach by a bunch of pilots. Kinda funny.

Ha... I took a security instructor class in 1996 with a gunsmith in a Surfside Beach gun shop who was a retired Myrtle Beach Air Force Base guy. He was still pissed off about the housing that was good enough for him and his family all the sudden became inhabitable for humans after the civilians took it over and had to rehab everything.

Posted: 8/11/2017 9:24:54 AM EDT

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Already looked there, nothing for West German made. They are a smaller diameter screw. I compared it against my Legion 226.

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Weird, as I have several spares from them, and I don't own any us made SIGs with the exception of the slide on my 239 is US made (I think...... It's a German frame)

Posted: 8/11/2017 10:03:45 AM EDT

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Wasn't the M9 standard issue for pilots? I wonder what that says about how pilots felt about it.

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No, at that time, Aug 90 it was the .38Spl at Myrtle Beach. M9 would have bee ok but id still prefer my luck charm

Posted: 8/11/2017 10:05:31 AM EDT

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Weird, as I have several spares from them, and I don't own any us made SIGs with the exception of the slide on my 239 is US made (I think...... It's a German frame)

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Every one they have listed just says P226, nothing about West German P226 small diameter etc. Probably a call to them will be better, if they even have a fun. Will check later

Posted: 8/11/2017 10:20:24 AM EDT

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So the airforce lets pilots carry anything they want in 9mm?

Posted: 8/11/2017 11:04:25 AM EDT

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Lol. Desert storm yes. Now....no

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:25:20 PM EDT

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Found a pic of the 226 in my vest, Desert Storm a long time ago.

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Posted: 8/21/2017 7:47:13 PM EDT

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Back home with real internet so I could find a pic of mine.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:57:32 PM EDT

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Traded her for a m9a1 compact. No regrets but I do miss it.

Posted: 8/21/2017 7:59:52 PM EDT

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Yes, had to be either 9mm or .38 spl. I had bought this gun a few years earlier while in college. Before we deployed, first unit to takeoff for the war btw, it was announced that we'd be able to carry personal firearms. There was a big run on every gunstore in Myrtle Beach by a bunch of pilots. Kinda funny.

Wasn't the M9 standard issue for pilots? I wonder what that says about how pilots felt about it.

Glock had a famous ad back in the day advertising how a Squadron of pilots bought G19s during the Gulf War. It was real deal and happened.

Posted: 8/21/2017 8:11:17 PM EDT

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I bought a mint 228 on Saturday for 500. It was a good day

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