The SIG Sauer P239 is now available with the Rainbow Titanium Finish.
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Caliber | .40 S&W |
| Capacity | 7+1 |
| Finish | Black Hard Coat Anodize (Frame) Rainbow Titanium (Slide) |
| Grip | Polymer |
| Barrel | 3.6" |
| Trigger | DA: 10.0 lb; SA: 4.4 lb |
| Weight | 29.5 oz |
| Sights | SIGLITE Night Sights |
| MSRP (Price) | $989 |
Apparently, the Sig P239 is now Equestria’s standard issue sidearm.
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0I have one, bought an extra slide and extra 9mm barrel. Awesome function and while the slide requires more care to keep it scratch free and clean I think it’s cool looking. I am a straight man that likes rainbows and colorful shiny stuff on occasion. I even have an aquarium with colorful fish. It’s too bad that homosexuals didn’t choose some other symbol like Mickey Mouse ears because I personally think rainbows are kinda cool whether they are in the sky or in a puddle with some gun/motor oil floating on top.
PS- I do not wear ascots or fashionable bowling shoes. But I do like this finish.
1 0Ok, my first thought on that finish is “Man, that’s really gay and tacky.”
Then I thought about it a bit more and remembered that my daughter really liked a Kershaw Leak in that same finish.
Soooo….. after rethinking it I decided that it’s still really gay and tacky but…. if the women like it (or anyone) then they may buy a quality gun, have some enthusiasm for their handgun and possibly get some of their friends into it.
My daughter shoots with me and once in a while will go to a gun show with me. She always comments on the Charter Arms revolvers in pink, purple, etc. The colored for some people and I guess that I’m kind of glad to see a higher end manufacturer putting out colored guns for those that are into it. Some people will buy for looks first and quality second. This fugly gun fills a gap for those that want a high end fugly gun in tacky eye burning colors.
1 0It’s not titanium, it’s shaped from unicorn horn!
0 0I knew a guy who had a titanium knife with this kind of finish. He kept bragging about it until I pointed out that titanium is worse than steel for blades because it’s softer, that shut him up. He was drawn in by shiny and TITANIUM STRONG. It seems to me like this is just another gimmick. What real advantage would titanium offer over steel. Maybe a small decrease in weight? In which case, I’d prefer a matte finish rather than that glare-fest.
0 0Neither me, nor my girlfriend, nor a gay friend of mine found this pretty.
Sig Sauers marketing failed at picking colours – again.
0 0spudgun, stoners don’t attack people. And the rainbows go to them.
funky gun though
0 0Komrad, it’s just a titanium finish, not the whole slide. And actually, it’s some kind of titanium oxide that is supposed to be fairly hard, if you can believe what the similar knife ads claim. Still ugly though.
Dear Sig, please stop with the endless model varieties. Not only do you have endless finishes, but you have several different grip & trigger varieties. Of course, not all (or even most) combinations are possible, so your product line can best be illustrated with a 3-ring venn diagram. Yeah, I like some of the finishes (Equinox), but you need to at least standardize the grip & trigger. Sig, please go back to making no-frills pistols that are utterly reliable.
0 0Sorry, but I think that finish just made me puke into my mouth a little.
R
0 0Case hardened steel has been used for function ( more durable bearing surface) and decoration on firearms for a very long time. The technique is being applied to a different/ modern material. Titanium produces a broader array of color when heated than steel. Komrad your buddy’s knife more than likely had titanium scales/handle and a modern steel alloy blade as straight titanium just won’t hold an edge due to it being a softer material. It being a softer material would make it absorb energy better and be more durable. Good tools are hardened and tempered. Hardened on the bearing surfaces and tempedred throughout the rest so they don’t snap when you apply force to them.
0 0Taste the rainbow……… Tastes like lead……..
0 0My wife has a P238 in rainbow, and that’s a fantastic little pistol.
The 239 is a great gun for all the reasons that count, and there’s no reason why a cosmetic finish changes any of that. I’m not sure it’s my thing, but I’m sure these will sell, and it almost always benefits the consumer to have more options.
If you don’t like it, then just don’t buy it.
0 0It’s kinda like a modern color (not colour) casehardening.
0 0nice. I think Sig may have realized that gays are an underexploited market for the firearms industry….
0 0If you can paint it to any color, why not paint it to every color?
0 0For a non-nauseating product line-up visit
http://www.sigsauer.de/index.php?id=6&lang=en
0 0I think it is horribly ugly. I asked my wife to see if I was being too macho and maybe it was more appealing to her…nope. She is a huge Sig fan, and still agrees it’s ugly as hell.
0 0Yuck! That is all.
0 0I purchased a knife with this finish, and promptly got labeled “fruity” by others.
0 0It’s so fabulous!!!
Unfortunately, .40SW is too snappy a round for the weak-wrist crowd that would buy a pistol like this. I’m thinking .32ACP might have been a better choice.
0 0I can’t tell if this is amazingly awesome or totally fruity.
0 0@Spudgun ‘cept for the fact that most stonners are mostly peaceful. junkies on the otherhand wont give a crap if your gun has rainbows on it.
0 0Well, with ivory being harder and harder to get, pimps gotta have something.
0 0Agh! Mine Eyes! Mine Eyes!!
YOU STOP IT RIGHT NOW SIG! STOP. BAD SIG.
0 0Double rainbow! What does it mean?!
0 0I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Never thought I’d say this, but that SIG is ugly!
0 0OMG that’s gaudy! I’d expect something like that from charter arms, but Sig? OTOH with their past choices, yeah.
0 0I guess it is better than diamond plating all their models… But is that really saying much?
0 0I suspect it is probably both awesome and fruity.
All “pretty” guns strike me as both though. From fancy engraved $10k shotguns down to the humble chrome 38 special. If it’s shiny and pretty it’s a bit awesome and a bit fruity. Same goes for fancy painted trucks and yellow sports cars…
I don’t think this is a bad thing, just not to my taste. Flat stainless or at the most a handsome checkered walnut stock is my preference on the “nice looking” end of the spectrum.
0 0Wow, that hurts my eyes…
0 0As much as I hate pink guns and other such frippery, I don’t mind this rainbow finish. And if you’re ever attacked by a group of stoners, pull this baby out and they’ll stop attacking you and stare at the slide…for like two hours. 
0 0
Taste the rainbow……… Tastes like lead……..
I have one, bought an extra slide and extra 9mm barrel. Awesome function and while the slide requires more care to keep it scratch free and clean I think it’s cool looking. I am a straight man that likes rainbows and colorful shiny stuff on occasion. I even have an aquarium with colorful fish. It’s too bad that homosexuals didn’t choose some other symbol like Mickey Mouse ears because I personally think rainbows are kinda cool whether they are in the sky or in a puddle with some gun/motor oil floating on top.
PS- I do not wear ascots or fashionable bowling shoes. But I do like this finish.
My wife has a P238 in rainbow, and that’s a fantastic little pistol.
The 239 is a great gun for all the reasons that count, and there’s no reason why a cosmetic finish changes any of that. I’m not sure it’s my thing, but I’m sure these will sell, and it almost always benefits the consumer to have more options.
If you don’t like it, then just don’t buy it.
Ok, my first thought on that finish is “Man, that’s really gay and tacky.”
Then I thought about it a bit more and remembered that my daughter really liked a Kershaw Leak in that same finish.
Soooo….. after rethinking it I decided that it’s still really gay and tacky but…. if the women like it (or anyone) then they may buy a quality gun, have some enthusiasm for their handgun and possibly get some of their friends into it.
My daughter shoots with me and once in a while will go to a gun show with me. She always comments on the Charter Arms revolvers in pink, purple, etc. The colored for some people and I guess that I’m kind of glad to see a higher end manufacturer putting out colored guns for those that are into it. Some people will buy for looks first and quality second. This fugly gun fills a gap for those that want a high end fugly gun in tacky eye burning colors.
It’s kinda like a modern color (not colour) casehardening.
Apparently, the Sig P239 is now Equestria’s standard issue sidearm.
Case hardened steel has been used for function ( more durable bearing surface) and decoration on firearms for a very long time. The technique is being applied to a different/ modern material. Titanium produces a broader array of color when heated than steel. Komrad your buddy’s knife more than likely had titanium scales/handle and a modern steel alloy blade as straight titanium just won’t hold an edge due to it being a softer material. It being a softer material would make it absorb energy better and be more durable. Good tools are hardened and tempered. Hardened on the bearing surfaces and tempedred throughout the rest so they don’t snap when you apply force to them.
If you can paint it to any color, why not paint it to every color?
Komrad, it’s just a titanium finish, not the whole slide. And actually, it’s some kind of titanium oxide that is supposed to be fairly hard, if you can believe what the similar knife ads claim. Still ugly though.
Dear Sig, please stop with the endless model varieties. Not only do you have endless finishes, but you have several different grip & trigger varieties. Of course, not all (or even most) combinations are possible, so your product line can best be illustrated with a 3-ring venn diagram. Yeah, I like some of the finishes (Equinox), but you need to at least standardize the grip & trigger. Sig, please go back to making no-frills pistols that are utterly reliable.
I knew a guy who had a titanium knife with this kind of finish. He kept bragging about it until I pointed out that titanium is worse than steel for blades because it’s softer, that shut him up. He was drawn in by shiny and TITANIUM STRONG. It seems to me like this is just another gimmick. What real advantage would titanium offer over steel. Maybe a small decrease in weight? In which case, I’d prefer a matte finish rather than that glare-fest.
It’s not titanium, it’s shaped from unicorn horn!
spudgun, stoners don’t attack people. And the rainbows go to them.
funky gun though
Sorry, but I think that finish just made me puke into my mouth a little.
R
Neither me, nor my girlfriend, nor a gay friend of mine found this pretty.
Sig Sauers marketing failed at picking colours – again.
nice. I think Sig may have realized that gays are an underexploited market for the firearms industry….
For a non-nauseating product line-up visit
http://www.sigsauer.de/index.php?id=6&lang=en
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. Never thought I’d say this, but that SIG is ugly!
Double rainbow! What does it mean?!
OMG that’s gaudy! I’d expect something like that from charter arms, but Sig? OTOH with their past choices, yeah.
I guess it is better than diamond plating all their models… But is that really saying much?
Wow, that hurts my eyes…
I suspect it is probably both awesome and fruity.
All “pretty” guns strike me as both though. From fancy engraved $10k shotguns down to the humble chrome 38 special. If it’s shiny and pretty it’s a bit awesome and a bit fruity. Same goes for fancy painted trucks and yellow sports cars…
I don’t think this is a bad thing, just not to my taste. Flat stainless or at the most a handsome checkered walnut stock is my preference on the “nice looking” end of the spectrum.
Agh! Mine Eyes! Mine Eyes!!
YOU STOP IT RIGHT NOW SIG! STOP. BAD SIG.
Well, with ivory being harder and harder to get, pimps gotta have something.
Yuck! That is all.
I think it is horribly ugly. I asked my wife to see if I was being too macho and maybe it was more appealing to her…nope. She is a huge Sig fan, and still agrees it’s ugly as hell.
I purchased a knife with this finish, and promptly got labeled “fruity” by others.
It’s so fabulous!!!
Unfortunately, .40SW is too snappy a round for the weak-wrist crowd that would buy a pistol like this. I’m thinking .32ACP might have been a better choice.
@Spudgun ‘cept for the fact that most stonners are mostly peaceful. junkies on the otherhand wont give a crap if your gun has rainbows on it.
I can’t tell if this is amazingly awesome or totally fruity.
As much as I hate pink guns and other such frippery, I don’t mind this rainbow finish. And if you’re ever attacked by a group of stoners, pull this baby out and they’ll stop attacking you and stare at the slide…for like two hours.