I picked up an old .40 cal P229 the other day. It has the E2 grips but is not the short reset variant. It does have usable night sights and a few minor handling marks on the trigger-guard & rail. Pretty decent overall and I'm happy.
11 rounds of Tula 40/180/FMJ fired SA at 25 yards, roughly half of which fired strong hand only from a bullseye stance. Fliers are mine. Black dot is roughly 3", spray-painted onto my 11x17 plate. This 229 will shoot.
I loaded a couple of mags from a bag containing .40 factory loads and reloads found in my 'catch-all' pile for that caliber. There were oddball JHP's, flat-point jacketed, lead truncated cone, lead SWC loaded to 850 fps and a few garden pest loads with that same bullet, going under 600 fps. It was funny to hear the light loads go 'Pffft.......ding' on the plate 25 yards distant. Those required manual ejection but the pistol fed everything thrown at it.
11 rounds of Tula 40/180/FMJ fired SA at 25 yards, roughly half of which fired strong hand only from a bullseye stance. Fliers are mine. Black dot is roughly 3", spray-painted onto my 11x17 plate. This 229 will shoot.
I loaded a couple of mags from a bag containing .40 factory loads and reloads found in my 'catch-all' pile for that caliber. There were oddball JHP's, flat-point jacketed, lead truncated cone, lead SWC loaded to 850 fps and a few garden pest loads with that same bullet, going under 600 fps. It was funny to hear the light loads go 'Pffft.......ding' on the plate 25 yards distant. Those required manual ejection but the pistol fed everything thrown at it.
