![]() The slide has serrations on both front and back for easy slide manipulation. The P365 is a striker fired, short-recoil handgun with a stainless steel slide, treated with a black Nitron finish, and a stainless steel frame along with a polymer grip module. In both 20, it was the best selling handgun in the United States. The P365, which replaced the P290RS, is produced in Newington, New Hampshire. It is primarily chambered in 9×19mm Parabellum and is rated for +P (higher pressure) ammunition while utilizing offset double-stack magazines. It is offered with Tritium XRAY3 Day/Night Sights and two 10-round magazines one flush fit and the other with an extended finger tab, and a stainless steel frame with polymer grip module. The SIG Sauer P365 is a striker-fired subcompact semi-automatic pistol manufactured by SIG Sauer, intended for everyday carry. Tritium XRAY3 Day/Night Sights, Three Dot, Combat Sighted SIG Sauer System ( short recoil locked breech) We're comfortable chalking this issue one up to frozen lube, not the pistol.P365 micro-compact handgun left side showing controls, rail, and extended tab 10-round magazine We shot day two on Sig's indoor range, and hundreds of rounds later, none of the guns exhibited the sticky slide problem. The guns were all cleaned and re-lubed with Slip 2000 for the second day of the event. Based on the range temps (our Kestrel showed the temp ranging from 12F after lunch to 8F when the sun went behind the trees in the late afternoon), frozen lube was a likely culprit. Turns out, the guns were all lubed with the same product in anticipation of the media event, though nobody present could say what it was. Our pistol slide felt sluggish, like a tight 1911 after 600 rounds without a reapplication of lubricant. At first, Sig employees thought some of the writers were limp-wristing the pistols, but by sunset it was clear there was another culprit. Of the handful of writers shooting the pre-production pistols on that cold, cold December day, all had the same malfunction. We logged scores of FRTB events and by the end of the first day, we got used to tapping the back of the pistol to help it the slide close the last few millimeters. Second, we had a lot of issues with the gun failing to return to battery on the first day of the two-day event. So, like we said, it could be an issue with one pre-production gun, but it's something we'll look at closely when we get a production P365. It could be our grip or the way we were hitting the button, perhaps at an angle, but it's clear that someone with larger hands and/or more time on the gun made it work. We approached Strader on the line and he and his gorilla hands had no problem dropping mags. It dropped mags about a third of the time, leaving us to regularly shake the pistol or strip mags by hand. Our groups weren’t as tight as his, but we easily printed fist-sized groups at defensive distances.įirst, the mag release in our gun was finicky. Not incidentally, Strader is a former law enforcement officer, top-ten USPSA pistol competitor, and former president of the United States Practical Shooting Association he can shoot well. We watched Phil Strader empty a mag full of A-Zone hits on IPSC steel at 50 yards. We spent a couple very cold New Hampshire days putting more than 1,000 rounds through pre-production pistols and can report its flatter-shooting, more controllable, and far more comfortable to shoot than a gun of its size should be. Sig is offering a 12-round, extended mag, below left, that adds a bit to the grip length improving the pistol’s controllability and capability. The elephant in the room was drop testing, and Sig showed us a Powerpoint slide illustrating the dozens of ways the pistol was oriented during its extensive drop testing cycle that saw the P365 subjected to more than 500 drops. ![]() We asked Sig Sauer’s pistol product lead, Phil Strader, if there's room to mill and drill the slide for an MRDS, and the answer was an unequivocal, “no.” There's a lot of bits packed into the grip tail, and the slide has no wasted space in an effort minimize the pistol's size. The trick to slimming the pistols down was to start with a tapered mag that reduced the grips thickness at the point where you'll feel it most up at the index finger/thumb radius. There's a lot to admire in the slimline nine, but the most important feature of the gun is the P365's staggered mags.
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