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SIG Model P220
Scale To:
Gun Dimensions		Width:	1.4-in
Length:	7.8-in	Height:	5.6-in
Barrel:	4.4-in	Weight:	30.4-oz
Variant 4 of 8

Gun Rankings
Power Factor (230 grain bullet)189980 Recoil Factor (230 grain bullet)8.36 ft-lb Total Capacity8 rounds ConcealabilityFair Defense Factor77%

Gun Specifications
Type:	Pistol
Produced:	1992 - 2004
Caliber:	.45 Auto
Action:	recoil operated semi-automatic
Trigger:	double-action (DA/SA)
Safety:	frame mounted decocking lever
Magazine:	7-round
Frame:	anodized aluminum
Grip:	black polymer
Sights:	combat
Notes:	two-tone, nickel finish slide

Manufacturer
	SIG SAUER GmbH & Co. KG More Info

Gun Value
MSRP:	$1,097.00	Used Est:	$840.00
Last Update:	1/5/2023

About the Gun

The modern Sig Sauer pistol story began with the P220. Initially offered in several centerfire calibers in 1976, all but the .45 ACP chambering were eventually dropped. The .45 ACP P220 went on to become recognized as one of 'the most accurate 45s right out of the box.' Since that time the P220 has earned an enviable record in hot spots around the world. Today the P220 features a stainless steel slide machined from bar stock and coated with a durable, wear-resistant Nitron finish or natural stainless finish, light-weight alloy frame with integral accessory rail, and the Sig Sauer four-point safety system of decocking lever, patented automatic firing pin safety block, safety intercept notch, and trigger bar disconnector.

Cartridge Specifications
Cartridge:	.45 Automatic
Alias:	.45 Automatic Colt Pistol (ACP)
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Ballistics for This Gun
Selected Bullet Mass:		230 grains
MV:	826 ft/sec	ME:	349 ft-lbs

About the Cartridge

This cartridge was developed by John Browning and was adopted by the United States Ordnance Department along with the Colt-Browning automatic pistol in 1911. It has also been made the official military handgun chambering by several other governments, notably Argentina, Mexico and Norway. The 45 Automatic is the most powerful military handgun cartridge in use today. This is a heavy and powerful sub-sonic round. Although its muzzle energy can exceed 400 ft-lbs, its velocity and bullet weight creates a steep trajectory curve that limits its effective range to self-defense distances.

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The world's most popular DA semiauto .45
By ArmedPartisan on 28 Apr 2020
Although the SIG-Sauer P220 was originally designed and intended to be 9x19mm, it was robust and durable enough to be chambered in cartridges with higher base pressures (but lower chamber pressures), such as .45 ACP and .38 Super for the export market. The first version of this pistol imported to the US was marketed as a Browning design (although it used the now-ubiquitous Browning system, it was wholly of German and Swiss design, based on Charles Petter's elegant 1935A, which was the forerunner of the more-successful SIG P210) and sold as the Browning BDA with a heel-magazine release, carried over from the SIG P210; (Side note: nearly every nation which adopted a heel-release magazine system after WWI had previously used a button release on issued pistols) this was not popular with American buyers, and was dropped from import after a few years. When it was re-introduced to the American market as the SIG-Sauer P220, it used the button release, which allowed higher capacity.