P365 Xl Vs Glock 48 - For the guy who loves DA/SA autos and noisy revolvers, the Sig P365 XL might seem like an odd choice. But I can't deny that this is a great carry gun. In this review I look at what I learned about the P365 XL after the 2000 rides and a few things that might need some improvement.
The Sig Sauer P365 XL is easily the most impressive new pistol I've tried in a long time. Today I want to talk about why it's quickly becoming one of my favorite concealed carry options.
P365 Xl Vs Glock 48
This gun falls into a whole new category of semi-auto concealed. They are not single stack and they are not double stack either. They are somewhere in between.
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Let's go back to the '90s - the heyday of the Wondernine double stack. At the time, the compact pistol was a full-size double-action revolver with the grip chipped down and the slide and barrel shortened slightly. For a subcompact, they just shortened everything a bit more. We can see perfect examples of this in some of the most iconic cars of the time; Compact Glock 19 and Glock 26. When all the other gun companies started releasing their polymer pistols in the early 2000s, they followed the same basic model.
Then a few years ago, the 9mm polymer single-stack came along and shook things up. In 2012, the Smith & Wesson Shield was not the first, but the gun that brought the single stack nine from niche status to becoming one of the most popular types of handguns in the country. Since then, we have seen dozens of new 9mm single-stack polymer pistols from every corner of the industry. And now we are all tired of them. Especially those of us who have to rate and review these things.
In January 2018, Sig Sauer saved us from this endless misery with something a little different actually: the P365. It looks like a nine bungalow. It is the same size as a nine-story bungalow. Well, they somehow managed to cram ten rounds into that little clown car for the magazine. A typical 9mm single-stack magazine holds 6 to 8 rounds, but this is not quite a single-stack magazine. The first three or four rounds in the magazine are stacked more or less directly on top of each other, but then the mag tapers out and down, the rounds are stacked like a double stack.
The gun was a big hit. She won all kinds of awards. There were some reliability issues early on, but the worst of them seem to be resolved after the first year or so. In May of last year, Sig released a version with a frame-mounted manual safety. Then this past July they introduced this version: the Sig P365 XL.
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It has the same slim profile as the original P365 but with a longer barrel and a slightly longer grip for the 12-round magazines. Sig also makes an extended 15-round magazine. It is about 3 ounces heavier than the standard P365 at 26.3 ounces loaded. Most of this additional weight comes from the long slide and barrel, which is 3.7 inches instead of 3.1. Available with or without a manual safety - this one has the safety. It has an XSeries direct trigger - only available as an aftermarket upgrade to the original P365 but standard on the XL. It also has, as standard, a set of Sig X-RAY3 night sights and a slide that is machined to accept a small red-dot optic.
It's worth asking why you were interested in this particular gun, or the P365 in general. I am happy with the rotten nose gun most of the time. One glorious stack with a few extra rounds in the mag isn't too much for me. If I were seriously considering carrying a gun for my personal use, it must be very easy to shoot, very easy to carry, and must meet my personal safety standards. I'll come back to the first two in a minute. Let me get the safety element out of the way first. Or perhaps the term "risk management" would be better.
If you've been watching my videos for a while, you know that for semi-autos, I usually prefer hammer-fired guns, whether it's double-action only or double-action/single-action. I like having the ability to cock the hammer with my thumb, so it is physically impossible to fire the gun while it is re-clamping. The Striker Control available for Glocks is the next best option. It does the same thing as a hammer when you're rebuilding. A manual safety is a distant third option, but depending on how it is designed, I would consider it for a carry pistol.
I don't think security is for everyone. I am especially hesitant to recommend a manual safety to a novice shooter, or anyone who does not train fairly regularly. But I will load a gun thousands and thousands of times, both in dry practice and on the range. Everyone has the potential to turn into a catastrophic accident. All it takes is a distraction—a momentary slip of attention.
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So, in addition to following all the best practices for safe gun handling and safe redeployment, I like that there is at least an extra layer of mechanical safety to reduce the risk. I especially like it when the extra class doesn't affect the usability of the weapon. Whether or not this is a manual safety is debatable.
I am about to pour so much love on this gun and talk about how amazing it is. But this manual safety is not good. It's not terrible either. It's not like the miserable part-safe you'd find as an option on the Smith & Wesson Shield. And it's not as bad as the odd safety on the LCP .22 LR I talked about a few weeks ago. It has a very positive click on and off which is suspicious. It could be much better. It's not wide enough and needs to be placed about another quarter of an inch forward on the frame.
I don't know why the gun companies keep screwing this up. I think it's further evidence that the people who make these design decisions aren't actually shooting. There are many examples of a good manual safety, so there is no excuse for not knowing what one should look like.
I already mentioned the safety on the M&P 22 Compact. This is an excellent security. It's not big at all, but it's wide enough that you can rest your thumb on it while shooting. When you hold the gun, the thumb joint naturally slides down on top of the safety to cock it. You can't miss it. The P365's safety is barely big enough to be usable, and it's small enough that I occasionally miss it on the first try. And when I rest my thumb on it, the sharp edge on the back rubs against my thumb as the gun moves.
Sig P365 Xl Od Green Pistol 12 Rd Vuurwapen Magazine Release
At first this was just annoying, but on a long session it would really open my thumbs. Now I have a nice little blood blister under the scar tissue from the first few times it happened. Honestly, I could live with it if the security was broader and easier to disable. Sage, please take some of that nice cash of $50 each for these magazines and give them to your R&D team so they can fix this security.
The Sig P365 XL's appeal isn't that it's small and therefore easy to carry. Many handguns are small. This gun is small and can be shot. It is small in a different way than other pistols. Let's take a look at some size comparisons so I can be clear on what I mean.
Here on the right, we have the world's most compact 9mm, the Glock 19. On the left is Glock's single stack 9mm, the Glock 43. It's not the smallest 9mm out there, but I think it's among the smallest 9mms that are always reasonably throwable.
I'm going to overlay these two and align them with the tang of the fist. This is the highest part of the fist where the web of your hand will go. Of course, the 43 has a shorter slide and grip, and the trigger reach is slightly shorter.
G43 Vs 43x Vs P365
Viewed from the rear, the 43 is noticeably slimmer. I measured the widest part of the grip, without including the magazine well and it's 0.81 inches for the 43 and 1.31 inches for the 19.
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