Uncle Malice
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I absolutely love mine. Over the past year, I have become a total P320 evangelist.
The compact is my EDC. The full size is my night stand gun.
I've beat on the compact pretty hard and it keeps begging for more. I am fully confident that the P320 will be the next military side arm.
Living in the Arizona desert, I get lots of experience with fine, gritty sand. This stuff loves to stop all kinds of guns. The VP9 did not play nice with it AT ALL. Yet, I have been unable to get the P320 to stop working when submitted to all kinds of sand in the action, slide rails, striker area.
I've thrown the gun around in the sandy, gritty desert getting those fine particles really embedded into the action, trying to find the 'weak' points in the design. To put it simply, I can't find any.
With the release of the flat take down lever and the minimal slide stop, this has really become the perfect platform to me. While I don't care so much about the modular aspects in terms of reconfiguring the gun, it makes cleaning an absolute breeze!
The fact that the slide can be totally broken down with no tools? Beautiful.
The way the whole fire control unit pops out for an easy hose down with gun scrubber? Beautiful.
At first, that trigger bar spring was a little bit of a pain, but I have figured out a good method that makes it a piece of cake now, so cleaning under the friction points is no problem.
I just really want to give a big shout out to the guys at Sig, Bruce Gray, and anyone that had anything to do with the design of this gun. This thing is really a home run. And that's after more than a year and thousands of rounds down range with it.
It's funny, because while I liked it...I was a little luke warm to it originally. It was the more that I actually SHOT the gun, the more that I loved it. Sometimes I would feel a gun in my hand the first time and be "in love"... then slowly fall out of love with it as I discovered things I didn't like. The HK P30 and VP9 were that way for me.
Here are a few pics of my Compact from a recent trip to the desert, shooting steel. A couple of my wife for good measure.
The compact is my EDC. The full size is my night stand gun.
I've beat on the compact pretty hard and it keeps begging for more. I am fully confident that the P320 will be the next military side arm.
Living in the Arizona desert, I get lots of experience with fine, gritty sand. This stuff loves to stop all kinds of guns. The VP9 did not play nice with it AT ALL. Yet, I have been unable to get the P320 to stop working when submitted to all kinds of sand in the action, slide rails, striker area.
I've thrown the gun around in the sandy, gritty desert getting those fine particles really embedded into the action, trying to find the 'weak' points in the design. To put it simply, I can't find any.
With the release of the flat take down lever and the minimal slide stop, this has really become the perfect platform to me. While I don't care so much about the modular aspects in terms of reconfiguring the gun, it makes cleaning an absolute breeze!
The fact that the slide can be totally broken down with no tools? Beautiful.
The way the whole fire control unit pops out for an easy hose down with gun scrubber? Beautiful.
At first, that trigger bar spring was a little bit of a pain, but I have figured out a good method that makes it a piece of cake now, so cleaning under the friction points is no problem.
I just really want to give a big shout out to the guys at Sig, Bruce Gray, and anyone that had anything to do with the design of this gun. This thing is really a home run. And that's after more than a year and thousands of rounds down range with it.
It's funny, because while I liked it...I was a little luke warm to it originally. It was the more that I actually SHOT the gun, the more that I loved it. Sometimes I would feel a gun in my hand the first time and be "in love"... then slowly fall out of love with it as I discovered things I didn't like. The HK P30 and VP9 were that way for me.
Here are a few pics of my Compact from a recent trip to the desert, shooting steel. A couple of my wife for good measure.
