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a local shop has a SigSauer 250SC new for $399.00
It's been a while since I've bought a new handgun and was wondering if anyone had an opinion on these.
Thanks

My experience has been that Sig guns are high quality, reliable, and generally accurate. My experience has also been that there are many other guns that are high quality, reliable, and accurate, that also cost less, weigh less, have lower bore axis, come with better sights and hold more rounds. For $399 it's not a bad deal though; I'd rather pay $599 and have any Glock over a Sig though.

Sauer2000,

I've got the 250C in .22LR.

Sig used this pistol (in striker fired form) to build the 320 which was accepted by the armed forces to replace the Beretta (the 320 that is).

It like the Sig 320 is modular, You can get grip frames, slides & barrel kits to change the barrel length, grip frame size or the caliber.

It's DAO... double action only, with 2nd strike capability. Think a double action revolver with magazine reloads!

Possible down side===> it appears Sig has discontinued this pistol in the centerfire calibers. But the Sig 320 grip frames will work with it... I am not sure if the 320's barrel & slides will fit it though. However presently there are several caliber change kits available on gunbroker.

If buying used or buying 'new old stock' make sure that You get the second iteration of this... I do not know what the problems were but the first version had some issues?


Jerry

Excellent pistol. The SIG 250 is hammer fired and the SIG 320 is striker fired.


For $400 bucks you are getting a top tier pistol which is almost the equal of a 320. I bought a 250 compact at a pawn shop a month ago for $360 OTD. I felt like I was stealing it.


The only down side is clips are $45.

I'm off Sigs due to their high bore axis, which adds greater felt flip to the recoil impulse, which to me is off-putting, though some don't mind it. High quality guns, though, and reliable.

PS I've had five or six Sigs over the past 35 years or so, at various times. Currently, the only one I still have is my little P238, just because it's a cool little gun ... a miniature of the 1911 in .380 ACP. Not in my carry rotation, though, due to its being a single action with a manual thumb safety. My carry guns require nothing but a draw and a squeeze of the trigger to send rounds down range.

I always thought the 250 was a great gun, although mags are a bit expensive

The few I've been around /shot were as accurate as the flagship P2 series

The only Sig that I've sold and wished I hadn't was the P230. It's a little, PPK like, .380 ACP. It was high in cool factor, and shot and carried nicely. Back in the 1980s, I carried it quite a lot. It fit perfectly in a holster designed for the PPK, and was super easy to conceal. That particular model, like the P238, didn't have the high bore axis issue. Being a .380, it wouldn't have been noticeable even if it did, though.

The Sig P250 was Sig’s low price point pistol, and it never set any sales records, nor did it net any real big agency sales for Sig. But it’s the pistol that set them on the road to their biggest sale, the 320 to the US military. I have never really heard any negatives about the 250, and the modularity is neat even though most won’t make use of that feature.

I love my Sig 226 40, but, cannot quickly draw and fire it double action and hit a roughly 10" square cardboard box at 20 yards, hope if I ever need it, I'm really close or at least am afforded the time to thumb the hammer back for the first shot.

I have a Sig P220 elite. By far the most accurate Pistol I own... and the best trigger pull in both SA and DA mode.

TRH,

Try this and maybe you won't have to comment on your "high bore axis" problem on every other post.

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Any point of view you don't want to hear, or to have anyone else hear, is going to seem to you like it's being stated in every other post.

I bought a used P250 for a decent price. Finally took it to the range and was majorly disappointed with it's high rate of misfires. The firing pin doesn't strike anywhere near the center of the primer. More like the edge to be specific. The indent was also very shallow. The radius on the tip was .045, and it didn't even go in half of that. The firing pin is so strong it keeps the pin from doing its primary job.

Another big problem was the extractor was completely wrong. It pushed the case so tight to one side that it made an already light strike hit completely off center. I have recut the extractor to work properly, and the pin strikes much closer to center now, just a little low, and am in the process of getting a lighter spring for it.

Even after I fix it, I will probably get rid of it.