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Sig 226 Value?
Boats
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I decided that I want a Sig 226 and found one on Gun Broker. It is 9mm with the rosewood grips and night sites. It is one of their special builds that they do off and on. Where this pistol is a special configuration do you think that it might be more collectable and hold it's value better?
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Where this pistol is a special configuration do you think that it might be more collectable and hold it's value better?
Honestly...No to both questions. Some years ago SIG-Sauer offered a special P-226 NRA variaiton with deluxe walnut stocks with the NRA emblem along with a special walnut dispaly case, also with the NRA emblem etched into the glass. It was soon possible to purchase both the NRA walnut stocks and the NRA display case "on the loose" (I bought both) and build you your own NRA P-226 for minimal money by using your own P-226 as a host gun for the special parts. So called special editons are just a vehicle for the manufactuere to get some old product out on the street in a fresh wrapper and make some fast sales; they typically don't hold their value any better or earn any big premium at resale over the regular models.
I'm sure that there are collectors, who want all the variations going back 30 years. If you can document that the work is factory original. And it was cataloged from the factory as a special order. I would expect it to appreciate in collectors value.
Neal
I decided that I want a Sig 226 and found one on Gun Broker. It is 9mm with the rosewood grips and night sites. It is one of their special builds that they do off and on. Where this pistol is a special configuration do you think that it might be more collectable and hold it's value better?
More "collectible". . .maybe. . .but probably not "much".
As already mentioned, SIG 226s are relatively common guns. Not only do lots of civilians have them, but they're standard issue for all sorts of State and Municipal police depts. If you include those (at least some of which have already or will eventually make their way into the secondary civilian surplus market), my guess is that there are WAY more than 100,000 of them in USA.
For something like this, a serious collector would want a brand new gun in the box with all original papers. With so many of these out there, and in so many variations, if this particular gun is actually used (and by that I mean it has ANY noticeable wear on it ANYWHERE), its added collector's value would be negligible.
On the other hand, SIGs are desirable well-built guns, so if you pay a fair price for it used when you get it, it won't go down in value. If this one is nicer than usual, that's just a small plus if you buy it. In general, just having night sights and rosewood grips will increase the value (and price). . .just not all that much.
Boats.
But the itch never goes away. [;)]
I have a few.
In many shapes and sizes.
But I wouldn't keep one as a "collector".
They are made to be fired. And I love to fire them.
And if you've got a cool, rare modern handgun that a lot of people haven't seen. Shoot it. Don't leave it in a drawer.
Now an unfired relic, I might feel differently about. Or a fragile family firearm.
But something you bought? Shoot it. Let your grand kids coddle it.
And 226s aren't known for their collectibility. .
its no more desirable than any other recently produces sig