SIG P320 Tsunami

[Diamondback]

I may have you beat on that one.... I am 43.

A 1911 has been on my hip for the better part of 20 years

45, been packing mine a little over 20.

[Majer]

I carried my 1911 for 34 years before switching to a SR9c due to back problems. I still have it, but just a range toy now.

[alfsauve]

I have resigned from the house of Slytherin, I mean SIG and have joined the house of Ravenclaw, FNH.

The closest replacement for the P320Compact I found was the FN 509.  They have a Full Size, a Compact and one in between, a Midsize.  I took a 3D printed IDPA CCP box to the store and the Midsize fit so that what I got.  Black with the optics mount plates. (FN 509M MRD)  I considered, Ruger, Walther, Canik, M&P, XD and some others but the 509 won out.  Later I might add the Fullsize for use as a Production or SSP gun.  Meanwhile the Midsize will serve not only CCP but CO as well.

Looked at Bud's and Good Guys but by the time you add shipping and credit card fees and FFL transfer on this end I got it for the same at the local store, Adventure Outdoors.  They had an unadvertised sale, $729 on the label, but it rang up for $699.99.  I paid cash so no cc fees.  $742 out the door.  PLUS it fits in the P320 holsters AND, I think, my Dawson, adjustable FO sights from my P320 also fit the FN.   Yeah.

[Big Frank]

I like the looks of FN 5 series pistols. If I ever get into shooting a suppressed centerfire I'd like to get a FN 545 Tactical. It's a .45 ACP with a mag capacity of 15 or 18 rounds. There are very few personal problems that can't be solved by 18+1 rounds of .45 ACP.

[Rastus]

I double checked mine today.  No problems with spurious action on the firing pin despite being hammered and dropped. 

[Sponsor]

[alfsauve]

The Dawson FO sights from my P320 fit perfectly on the 509.  Makes sense the 509 would be very close to the  Sig since both were developed for the Modular Handgun program.  If it ever got so bad the military felt they needed a replacement, FN would be the choice.

Too bad the magazine catches are different.  I think otherwise my old Sig mags would fit.  With the right jig/tool I think the Sig mags could be converted.  Too bad that’s a little beyond my machining capabilities.  Hmm…. If I design a plastic model of the jig I wonder if I could get someone at a maker space to mill it for me?

Not as front heavy as the Sig, interestingly.  Off th rest fire it today.

[Pathfinder]

I have yet to find anything online that I can reproduce to create an uncommanded firing, so I am keeping my P320/P17. Ever since the arrest of the other airman in this case, the whole "P320 is haunted and fires all by itself" thing is just that -- a thing. Granted Sig has not handled it well, and that does disturb me on a human level, but the gun is - as we always tell people - an inanimate object.

[alfsauve]

I'm keeping my P320s as well.  I just can use them at my range nor in any competition, hence the FN 509. 

As you probably know it turns out not to be an uncommanded discharge. The Airman was actually shot by another Airman, probably horsing around at the end of a shift.  Involuntary Manslaughter and Filing a False Report charges are pending.

It's not a good month to be an Airman at FE Warren AFB.  Another Airman was shot and killed last weekend.  Off base, but by a fellow Airman, with an AK-47.  Alcohol was involved it appears.

[Big Frank]

Alcohol and gunpowder don't mix.

Says the guy with bottle openers on three of his guns.

[Big Frank]

Milspin made a Drop Safe Slide Back Plate (Limited Release) for Glock pistols.   It's available in Black on Brass, and Black on Stainless.

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