Took the new P365 to the range today for its first outing. Short version: Gun was great, I sucked a bit.
Clipped one of those large paper targets with several 6-inch bulls onto the holder and put it to use at 5, 7 and 10 yards. Ran about half a dozen mags through my Shield to say hello to it and to give me a baseline for comparison. With the Shield, shot up the center bull nicely with a child’s fist-size hole you could see through and decided OK, time to bring out the new one! (Mr. Patience I am not.)
Got after it with first a 50-count box of 124 grain jacketed ball, then a 50-count box of 124 grain Federal HST, then a 50-count box of jacketed 124 grain jacketed ball. Little bit slow at first to get the feel for the reset, then picked it up the pace with pairs and such. Also did some strong-hand only.
Accuracy alternated from lovely to acceptable – and the deviation toward acceptable was on me. Still nursing a slide-bite cut from last weekend from that little Beretta Tomcat for which my paw is too fat, and I reopened that slice.
So, I think was a bit of wuss today, to which I’m attributing the five shots I threw outside of the circles. Can’t put those on the gun; that was me. Also attributing the 3 failure to feeds to the same thing (limp wristing). On all three, gun went ever so slightly into not-full battery. The “tap” of the “tap-rack-bang” took care of it.
All in all, I’d say the gun performed very nicely … after I put on a Band-Aid and pushed down my skirt.
I may add some Talon grip tapes (the rubbery ones), but I don’t think this gun needs much to work for me. Trigger felt pretty sweet, and I like that front sight. I’ll give it a few more range trips before it becomes a carry gun, ‘cause I’m like that. But, all in all, I was favorably impressed by this little Sig.
Clipped one of those large paper targets with several 6-inch bulls onto the holder and put it to use at 5, 7 and 10 yards. Ran about half a dozen mags through my Shield to say hello to it and to give me a baseline for comparison. With the Shield, shot up the center bull nicely with a child’s fist-size hole you could see through and decided OK, time to bring out the new one! (Mr. Patience I am not.)
Got after it with first a 50-count box of 124 grain jacketed ball, then a 50-count box of 124 grain Federal HST, then a 50-count box of jacketed 124 grain jacketed ball. Little bit slow at first to get the feel for the reset, then picked it up the pace with pairs and such. Also did some strong-hand only.
Accuracy alternated from lovely to acceptable – and the deviation toward acceptable was on me. Still nursing a slide-bite cut from last weekend from that little Beretta Tomcat for which my paw is too fat, and I reopened that slice.
So, I think was a bit of wuss today, to which I’m attributing the five shots I threw outside of the circles. Can’t put those on the gun; that was me. Also attributing the 3 failure to feeds to the same thing (limp wristing). On all three, gun went ever so slightly into not-full battery. The “tap” of the “tap-rack-bang” took care of it.
All in all, I’d say the gun performed very nicely … after I put on a Band-Aid and pushed down my skirt.
I may add some Talon grip tapes (the rubbery ones), but I don’t think this gun needs much to work for me. Trigger felt pretty sweet, and I like that front sight. I’ll give it a few more range trips before it becomes a carry gun, ‘cause I’m like that. But, all in all, I was favorably impressed by this little Sig.
