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I was looking in my local gun shop on Saturday and saw they had a P320 carry model and was wondering if anyone has had a chance to hold one or shoot one yet.
would like some feed back on it.
Guy at work has one with full size and compact frames as well as 9 and .45 i believe. Hefty solid piece but i hated the trigger, i shot both calibers. Way too long for me, i only went through a couple of mags but couldnt get the break down, just too long of a pull for my liking. Really sucked because i love the idea and wanted it for the versatility. That was just my experience, he loves it.
I have a P320 compact in 9mm and it’s the best striker fired gun I’ve ever handled. For me it’s about as close to perfect as you can get. The grip just fits my hand perfectly and the trigger on mine has a clean smooth break on my shooting buddies gauge it breaks at 5 lbs 9 ozs. and the reset is incredible. The only striker fired pistol I’ve shot in the same league would be the Walther P99 and PPQ. YMMV of course but I love mine.
I’ve just picked up a subcompact 9mm but haven’t got it to the range yet. Now that I have two fire control units I want to pick up X-change kits in 357 Sig and 45 ACP both in compacts.
I did some preliminary testing on the subcompact model. For the grip angle alone, I rate this product line quite high.
I’ve got the fullsize P320, love mine. Fits my hand well and shoots smoothe and easy.
I alternate between the P320 and a Springfield XDM 40, which is also striker fired. Love both of them.
The P320 is a bit cheeper to use, and with Critical Duty loaded, the 9mm will do just fine if it’s put to true use. The XDM is a tiny bit heavier, but the difference is hard to feel.I love um both. If I had to pic I’d say my XDM has a small small fraction of a lead, but I’ve had it longer and am more ‘used’ to it. The P320 is awesome.
Can’t say about the smaller version. I’m a big guy so the fullsize isn’t that ‘large’ for me.
We had two separate sig 320’s kB at the range last pistol match. Blew the mag out the bottom and shot the extractor out of the gun which got lost. The plastic grip on the extractor side was also damaged so both will be going back to sig. The ammo used was factory Winchester white box. I examined both guns and I think the chamber was out of spec. Too much of the back of the case stuck out causing a unsupported chamber at the feed ramp. We compared it with several other barrels including a Glock and it just looked wrong. The glock went all the way to the web of the case and the Sig 320 stuck out a good 8th of an inch more. We didn’t have any tools to measure the chamber but just by eyeballing it both barrels were badly out of spec. We will see what sig says.
Prior to this I was a sig 320 fan now I will reserve judgement until we understand what happened better.
I’ve put 100s of Winchester white box through my P320 and have never had a problem of any sort. Not a jam or any failure, much less a catostropic one.
To have two different guns fail in the same way the same day in the same place…. that’s.. weird. You sure someone didn’t try and modify one or do something to them? to have two fail exactly alike, like that, seems unlikely.
I’ve put 100s of Winchester white box through my P320 and have never had a problem of any sort. Not a jam or any failure, much less a catostropic one.
To have two different guns fail in the same way the same day in the same place…. that’s.. weird. You sure someone didn’t try and modify one or do something to them? to have two fail exactly alike, like that, seems unlikely.
No both 320’s were factory stock. One guy claimed to have 4000 rounds though his sig before it kB’ed. Looked at the wear on the top front lug of the barrel hood it looked like the gun has been shot some. I’ll see those guys next month at that particular steel plate match and ask what sig said about the problem.
Take your sig 320 barrel out of the gun and drop a 9mm round into the chamber. Pointing the barrel muzzled down look the web (area just before the extractor groove) should be covered and inside the chamber even at the feed ramp area. Their barrel were not. Not sure if it was a bad batch of barrels or if this is just a 320 thing. Glocks which have a bad rep for a partially unsupported barrel had much more support in that area than these particular 320’s
I’ve not shot mine much, but so far I like it. I need to see about swapping out for night sights and putting several hundred more rounds through it and then some HP before it makes it into the carry rotation though.
I shoot mine fairly well. I did myself a disservice though with it. I dry fired it a ton before shooting it. Now I push the gun left as the trigger breaks so I’m going to have to spend a lot of time/ammo fixing that. I’m consistently left by 1-2″. I can compensate with my support hand but it’s way more grip than I’ve ever used before and if I get the break right then I’m off another way.
I just picked a carry version up this week. It’s going to the range on Monday to break in. The trigger and ergos on it are pretty darn good as most have mentioned. I have a P250 sub compact I carry (dao) that I absolutely love. We will see if the P320 bumps it and or the SP2022 out of rotation for EDC.
I just need to invest in a good IWB retention holster after the holidays.
There’s a thousand round test of this pistol up on YouTube. Anybody that’s seen Yeager’s 1000 round Glock 19 test will get the gist of what it’s all about. The P320 Compact used passes with flying colors, outdoing the Glock 19 torture test in overall reliability. Seems like an excellent pistol, only negatives being the higher bore axis and the trigger not having any crispness to it whatsoever.
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Guy at work has one with full size and compact frames as well as 9 and .45 i believe. Hefty solid piece but i hated the trigger, i shot both calibers. Way too long for me, i only went through a couple of mags but couldnt get the break down, just too long of a pull for my liking. Really sucked because i love the idea and wanted it for the versatility. That was just my experience, he loves it.
it’s weird because sig is known as one of best trigger on industry.Trigger on my Sig is great.
Though triggers can be weird for different people. Even in different guns. Friend of mine has an MP Shield, I don’t know what, if anything he did to his, but I can barely pull the trigger on it. I mean, I don’t have weak hands but I’ve got to double up my grip and really really really bear down on it. I thought the :censored: thing was broken the first time he let me shoot it. I’ve never experienced a trigger pull that hard. I don’t know if he messed with it, or what, but it put me off on the gun. if I’ve got to fight with a gun to even get it to fire, I’m not going to use that thing.
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