Looking for single action only compact or sub compact pistol.

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Hi, I am getting ready to buy a single action only compact or sub compact pistol in 22 LR, 380, 9mm or 40 cal. Since there are not a lot of single action only pistols out there I want to make sure I am not overlooking some. Here is a list I have so far. Are there others such as perhaps a Kimber or other manufacturers that I should add to my list of single action only semi automatics?

Single action semi automatic pistols

9 MM or 380 or 22 LR or 40 cal.​

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Sig p238 pistol

colt mustang XSP pistol

H&K USP pistol

Springfield range officer 9 MM pistol

Springfield EMP pistol

Sig p938 pistol

Thanks, Ed

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USP is not SAO. It can be carried cocked and locked if you trust it’s safety lever and have it set up to do that, but it’s DA/SA.

If you count that, then the lh9 and several of the CZ variants can be carried that way as well.

There are also several Sigs with SAO versions. Some of them might be compact. I don’t know, I don’t like them. Along those lines, the p938 and p238 are bad designs. The FP block fails open and the seer can disengage with the safety on, making it so normal cleaning & testing procedures could miss a condition where the gun will fire when the safety is disengaged.

If you want to get technical, the XDs are single action…the striker is as far back as it will ever go before the trigger is pulled. The take up is just take up, not completing cocking like the glock design. I think the M&P is the same way, but I’m less sure of it. If that’s true, then the TS versions will do what you seem to want, admittedly with a really lousy factory trigger.

One of Walther’s actions can have the pistol carried cocked with a long, light takeup. I forget which one it is. AS maybe? Probably not what you’re looking for, but I’m pretty sure that in that mode the trigger does not further compress the striker spring.

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1911 by any manufacturer, Star PD in .45, B series in 9mm, P35 High power, Colt Govt Model .380 and Mustang series, Beretta 950 in .22short, Colt 1908 in multi calibers, European service pistols like the Polish Radom, Soviet Tokarev and Chicom and Block clones…. I’ll end with the classic Sig P210

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Just buy a 938 and get the 22 Lr conversion kit .

Jake

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Just buy a 938 and get the 22 Lr conversion kit .

Jake

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Just buy a 938 and get the 22 Lr conversion kit .

Jake

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Can’t go wrong with the 938 in my opinion.

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The sig p938 is a great little gun!

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Wilson Combat 9mm Ultralight Carry Sentinel

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Although I don’t own either, here are a couple I’ve been keeping my eye on that I don’t see on your list; the Browning 1911-380 and the Rock Island Baby-Rock 380.

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Thanks for all the replies thus far, great info, please keep thoughts coming. Anyone know about Kimber, I can’t figure out if it is SAO? Ed

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Kimber? Their 1911s obviously are SAO. The micro is SAO, the Solo is DAO, iirc.

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