Is your EDC a Sig P365?

[spookshack]

More than a few folks have whined about all the larger 365 variants like "Sig made a great micro 9 with the regular 365 and then they go and ruin it by making it bigger wtf"? Well I for one love the slimness of the grip bit prefer a full size grip and a longer slide (at least 4"). When the 48 came out, I referred to it as a 19 in skinny jeans. A lot of folks looked at the specs and said that there wasn't that much of a difference and just stick with the 19 and 5 more rounds. On paper it would seem so, but the difference for me was very noticeable.

Only having 10rds was not a deal breaker for me and I eventually went with the Shield mags. I initially had trouble, but after contacting Shield Arms, they sent out some revised springs at no charge. I didn't put a ton of rounds though them, but enough to confirm that the new springs fixed the problem.

My ex-wife had a standard 365 but I didn't pay it much attention till I became interested in the XL. At some point, I ended up at Safefire and rented the XL and shot it back to back with my 48. The grip won me over, so I ended up buying an XL a short time later. While I enjoyed it, it still wasn't quite right. Enter the X Macro grip module and the Shalotek 4.1" slide and barrel. Yeo, that was the ticket! I now basically have a 365 version of the 48, but with a better grip AND a 17rd capacity. Even if I'm forced to carry 10rd mags in the future, it's still more ergonomically better to me than a 48.

Now if ShaloTek ever decides to make a 5" barrel/slide combo for the 365, my quest will be complete!

 

[FourTeeFive]

You should try grand power rotating barrel guns. Q1 is g19 size and outshoots even full size metal single action guns with red dots for me. They make larger competition guns also.

Skip to 17:20 mark his experience is same as mine. On par or better than anything I have in terms of accuracy and getting back on target. Even guns costing 4x more.

View: https://youtu.be/Ojdlja2O1SY?si=9DB2XNQLDeP93CVs

I'd like to try one. Just watching the video I don't see any magical recoil reduction, but hard to know how he controls a "normal" gun.

 

[nammac]

Plain Vanilla P365 (MagGuts +2)


Or add an optic:


Or even a can:


Missing a photo of the optic and the can simultaneously, but it's been done. And shoots surprising well with the can.

 

[HA556]

Or add an optic:

Which Holosun is that and is it direct mount?

 

[spookshack]

Holosun 407k/507k, EPS and EPS Carry will direct mount to a P365. They utilize a modified RMSc footprint.

 

[HA556]

Holosun 407k/507k, EPS and EPS Carry will direct mount to a P365. They utilize a modified RMSc footprint.

Thank you, appreciate that info and listing of suitable Holosuns!

 

[nammac]

Which Holosun is that and is it direct mount?

That's a Holosun 507K, green of course.

 

[HA556]

That's a Holosun 507K.

Appreciate that my friend!

 

[Papercidal]

I've got two that I rotate between and while relatively low round count (about 5,000 between the two) I've not had a single malfunction in either other than the front night sight dying a couple times on one of them.

 

[bobberfish]

Love em. EDC and then some. My favorite and I have a custom shop is the sas most carryable firearm ever in my opinion. sas is center bottom,
Custom shop upper left, wife's 380 between them and 2 xl uppers on the right bottom one a Wilson combat lower sig Romeo on top and the upper right is a zev precision upper with a hogue over molded grip Each day brings a difficult choice but the sas usually always wins.

 

[bobberfish]

I've tried the 365, the 365X, and the 365 X MACRO - sold all of them. I bought the 365 on initial release and while it felt nice in the hand and carried well, I thought it was super uncomfortable to shoot. When the 365X came out, I figured that would fix my issues I had with the initial 365. This wound up being the model of 365 I carried for the longest, maybe a year or a little more? When the X MACRO came out I traded the 365X for that. On my initial range trip, the X MACRO had a catastrophic failure approximately 50 rounds in. The trigger was totally dead and unresponsive. I had to send it back to Sig for repair and they fixed it at no cost. Apparently some sort of faulty trigger springs were installed and that resulted in the trigger dying ~50 rounds in. I sold the gun after that because I bought it with the intention of it being a carry gun. I no longer could trust the platform if a gun new from the factory shat the bed like that. I went back to carrying Glock for semi-auto handguns and Smith & Wesson for revolvers.

 

[bobberfish]

That's sad to hear but otherwise you liked them!! Mine, have never had that type of failure an occasional failure to eject when running longer sig plusP ammo is all. But I'd edc anyone of my 365's with life saving confidence. But I like to practice with each one a ton so very familiar with this platform and there very accurate pistols.

 

[1911Fanatic]

The first time I handled one, I did not care for the feel. I was pretty dedicated to my Glock 43 and reluctant to give anything else a real try. (I've carried others that I have but, the 43 was my primary) Lately I have been revisiting the P365 and realized it really fits my hand well and has very good point ability for me. Long story short, I picked one up and it is now replacing the G43 as my EDC. Something about this little shooter keeps grabbing at my attention and I can't seem to put it down. Once I've found the perfect 124gr defense load, it will be my new constant companion. It is optic ready, but not sure I'm going to put one on yet. It has a really good set of night sights on right now.

If the P365 is your EDC, what brought you over to it, and what are your favorite likes about it? Share your story if you like.

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Well, it's my wife's EDC, only because it's the only center fire handgun she owns. It was one of the few where the trigger reachnwasn't too long and the grip too wide. She;s got 17, 12, and 10 round mags for it, and I reversed the mag release for her. No manual safety.

It took a long time to find a gun that fit her hand.

 

[1911Fanatic]

The trigger return spring failures are a known problem, they are easy to change, and I keep a couple of spares on hand for my wife's gun just in case. Sig has tried different metallurgy. But most people tend to change them every few thousand rounds. I will go 2000 and change it just to be sure. It doesn't get shot a lot.

 

[DeepSpace]

2 p365's and both a different life story.
My wife has plain jane 365. At about 2000 rounds the recoil spring broke rendering the slide 90% closed and un move able. Under warranty so no problems Sig took care of it. About 1000 rounds after repair the unit blew up in her hand. She squeezed the trigger and while lowering the gun (no finger on trigger) the gun went off while returning to battery. Split the barrel, grip module destroyed and slightly burned hand. Sig said it was over charged round. Internet searches said it wasn't un common. Sig initially was going to charge 450 to repair. I kept a heavy barrage of emails arguing their claim, in the end charged 100$. The gun now has about 15,000 rounds no more issues.
My 365 sas has almost 17,000 rounds haven't had a issue. I replaced the recoil spring 3 times, 1 striker replaced and 1 ejector.
The same maintenance has been done on wife's.

 

[spookshack]

Not being snarky, just curious why you felt Sig should foot the repair bill instead of the ammo manufacture if it indeed was an over pressure round?

 

[DeepSpace]

I don't think it was a over pressure round based on several things. First the gun fired twice rapidly the flew apart. I found the shell. It went not in the chamber. One image show the shell dented at its mouth indicating it was not in the chamber, you can also see the shell is leaning which I don't forsee happening with a shell in a tube and lastly the shell is blown ot it's side a the base. There is quite a cases of similar instances a few years back.

 

[spookshack]

Thanks for the added clarification and context. Glad your wife was not seriously injured.

 

[DeepSpace]

No problem. Also I don't think a shell can bulge like that in a chamber.

 

[DLS]

That case shows a classic over pressure failure.

The excess pressure forces the slide rearward prematurely. Then as the case is exiting the chamber it blows out due to the high residual pressure in the barrel.

The case is still providing a gas seal as it is pulled back by the extractor. As the web clears the back of the chamber the thin brass ahead of the web gives out.

What ammo were you using?