Sig Is Reintroducing The P-210 Called The "Legend"

[billt]

http://www.sigsauer.com/aboutus/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsId=56

"SIG SAUER® P210® Legend Returns

Classic European Styling with Enhanced Design

EXETER, NH (January 2011) — SIG SAUER, Inc., the leading manufacturer of commercial, law enforcement and military firearms, has done the unimaginable by improving on a legend.

The SIG SAUER® P210®, the timeless pistol of the Swiss Army, is once again in production by SIG SAUER GmbH in Germany. This historic gun features the same precision and reliability as its ancestors, but also offers a number of modern improvements.

The carbon steel slide, machined from solid billet steel, now features a durable Nitron® coating, and the improved beavertail adorns the Nitron coated, heavy-style, carbon steel frame. The P210 Legend also offers an improved manual safety, internal drop safety, side magazine release, and custom wood grips. The return of the SIG SAUER P210 Legend will now ensure that many more shooters will be able to enjoy one of the world’s most accurate and legendary firearms.

For more information and spec sheet, download the pdf document."

Price is $2,000.00 and change. About $200.00 more for adjustable sights.  Bill T.

[fightingquaker13]

For two grand they can't throw in adjustable sights? Sorry, but this is the kind of thing that pisses me off. If I'm paying a premium, don't nickel and dime me. Its like staying at a Super 8 where I get free coffee in the room, free phone calls and a breakfast. Stay at a Sofeteil or a Hilton? That cofee is going to cost, the calls are going to cost and you're lucky to get fruit and a bagel for less than ten bucks, all at twice the price for the room. WTF? If Charter arms or Glock want to charge extra for adjustable sights fine, but at $2K they damn well better adjust themselves. Rant over.
FQ13

[Timothy]

Nice pistol, complete waste of money.....which means Bill T has one on order already!   

Once, just once, I agree with FQ on this one! 

Never again!

 

[kilopaparomeo]

Me likely...that is a "grail gun" for me...but not for $2K.

[billt]

That pistol is a bargain at that price. Unless you've handled and shot a Sig P-210 you simply don't know. I have. The gun is impeccably machined from solid steel forgings, and hand fit to unbelievably close tolerances. The slide alone takes several hours of hand fitting just to assure proper fit to the frame. The slide itself feels like oiled steel sliding on wet ice. Everything on this handgun reflects pure quality. The gun is competitively priced to many guns that do not contain anywhere near this kind of quality manufacturing.

 Look at the cost of a Les Baer or a Ed Brown 1911. They are more expensive. Most do not match up to this pistol. If you doubt that, look at what an original P-210 will fetch on the used gun market. That is provided you can even find one for sale. If you do you'll come back running to purchase this one. Bill T.

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[Timothy]

Sorry Bill, while I appreciate good, finely machined hardware, there is not a handgun on the planet I would pay two grand for...there isn't a gun of any kind I would spend two grand for.  It's a tool, albeit a well made one, but simply a tool..  I'm a simple guy, I can find four guns I like better for 500 each....  Look back, I've said the same about Wilson Combat and a number of other models.

YMMV and I'm sure it does.

[billt]

I can find four guns I like better for 500 each.

And you can buy 5, Ford Fiesta's for the price of 1 Shelby Mustang. What have you got? Everything is relative.  Bill T.

[Timothy]

And you can buy 5, Ford Fiesta's for the price of 1 Shelby Mustang. What have you got? Everything is relative.  Bill T.

I'm the same way about cars.....tools, no more, no less....both of mine were window deep in snow this morning so a Shelby would be one the least desirable vehicles to have in New England....  I buy what I need for practical reasons, a Mustang, of any ilk, is not practical.  I can afford more, I just don't need it.


BTW, you can only buy 4 Fiestas for the price of a Cobra....

[billt]

both of mine were window deep in snow this morning so a Shelby would be one the least desirable vehicles to have in New England.

You need to move to a better climate.   Bill T.

[Timothy]

You need to move to a better climate.   Bill T.

The weather climate is fine, it's the political climate and all the snow that sucks...

I'll never move south, not for me.  I'm a pasty Irishman who's last suntan was sometime in the eighties.  I'd much rather freeze to death than die in the desert.  I can still out shovel kids half my age, I've been doing long enough..