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TDL · August 15, 2013, 07:31 PM

Mag and shipped mag capacity changed on p229 e2/enhanced elite in 9mm a couple of years ago.
My 2010 9mm p229 e2 (non stainless) has the same frame as the p229 40 cal and a new specialized magazine "229-1." I believe the older p229 in 9 had a different frame than same model in 40.

I was in a 10 round jurisdiction, so I bought some p229/228 9m 10 round oem sig mags when I got my gun, and had seller send the 15 round oems to my brother out of state. On the ten rounders I was having trouble with failure of slide to lock back after final round about 10% of the time. Two sig reps did not know what it was. Finally I got a sig rep who knew that this is cuased by using older and slightly different p229/228 9mm mags in a post mid year 2010 p229.

Sig's site and a LOT of their printed info is in fact a BOTCH for magazines. They still list in some material a lot of mags they discontinued (eg some p239 mags) and sometimes their own reps don't know what frame might be on your model without printing up the "BOM" listing all the parts on your specific gun from their internal database.

August 15, 2013, 07:31 PM	#22
TDL Senior Member Join Date: January 25, 2013 Posts: 317	mags Mag and shipped mag capacity changed on p229 e2/enhanced elite in 9mm a couple of years ago. My 2010 9mm p229 e2 (non stainless) has the same frame as the p229 40 cal and a new specialized magazine "229-1." I believe the older p229 in 9 had a different frame than same model in 40. I was in a 10 round jurisdiction, so I bought some p229/228 9m 10 round oem sig mags when I got my gun, and had seller send the 15 round oems to my brother out of state. On the ten rounders I was having trouble with failure of slide to lock back after final round about 10% of the time. Two sig reps did not know what it was. Finally I got a sig rep who knew that this is cuased by using older and slightly different p229/228 9mm mags in a post mid year 2010 p229. Sig's site and a LOT of their printed info is in fact a BOTCH for magazines. They still list in some material a lot of mags they discontinued (eg some p239 mags) and sometimes their own reps don't know what frame might be on your model without printing up the "BOM" listing all the parts on your specific gun from their internal database.