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Sig is notorious for killing a model and no magazines are made for it. I would buy magazines first while they are still around. I learned this helping a friend find magazines for a Sig 225 and a 239.
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Especially MAGAZINES.If the concern is long term use, determine the parts most likely to wear and lay in a supply.
I love my Browning 1911 380 and so does everyone else that shoots it! I have not found any replacement sights and the sights mine came with whisks me back to the 1980's. My 1911-380 shoots very accurately for me with the original sights (the gun almost knows what I am aiming at and makes corrections accordingly) but the sights fall short of what I have gotten used to on more recent pistols. My 1911-380 is pre a black-label production. I think the black-label versions are supposed to have better sights than mine?Thanks for the replies all. I will be on the lookout for a good deal on another p238. The suggestion of the Browning 380 is a good one, I've looked at this and was tempted. Dunno if anyone makes good night sights for the Browning and good holsters, I'd have to look into that.
One ex wife is none ex wifeJust remember the old adage.. One is none and nine is lung.
One in hand is nine in the lung.One ex wife is none ex wife
Second paragraph is the meat! This is exactly how i ended up with 2 complete slides and frame parts to a CZ P-07 plus 1 additional complete slide and parts to the P-09. I have found 4 of such firms on GB and am constantly looking at their auctions. GLOCKs, P226/229 are fairly common parts found in these auctions.I used to do what the OP suggests. If I had a favorite handgun, I might buy a second one. In the largely mistaken idea that if I had two examples, I'd be in the pink if one went bad. I say largely mistaken in the recognition of the amount of use any single gun might incur while I owned it. Meaning, I wasn't firing thousands of rounds in any one firearm.
Two Colt 10mm Auto Delta Elites, two Smith & Wesson Model 29's, two Smith & Wesson Model 18's, two Ruger Marks, etc, etc. They are gone now but having two made it twice the work when I disposed of most of my handguns. I still have six or eight, but none are dupes.
There are companies that sell parts groupings on Gunbroker. These are firms that have business relationships with law enforcement agencies. To disassemble seized or forfeited firearms. What most of them are selling are from a single firearm, less the frame / receiver. OP, you might look on Gunbroker to see if any parts sets for what you have come up. Sometimes a frame comes up, but that's the one part not likely to need replacement. However, handgun frames do come along on gunbroker for one reason or another. The other day, I was looking at an H&R Model 732 minus cylinder. At the time, there were several parts "kits" available for that model at fairly low cost.
Re. advancing age. I don't know if I have 25 years left, or 25 minutes. These days, I only look upon the utility of earthly goods from one day to the next.