Despite the ammo shortage, we still had a more than ample supply of Federal American Eagle and Sig Sauer Elite Ball ammunition on hand, with weights varying from 124 to 147 grains. In between bites of pizza, a great time was had by all. Of all the compacts tested, there wasn’t a single malfunction attributable to any of the pistols. Brad had occasions where slides didn’t lock back on a couple of pistols. However, he has good-sized hands and we traced it to him inadvertently engaging the slide stops.
The most expensive pistol in the test was the Sig P365 XL ($680 MSRP), and value was where it took its hardest ding in the scoring. Other than that, the reviews were quite positive overall. Two shooters really liked the XRay-3 tritium sights, and John mentioned how he liked the radiused edges. He pointed out that the P365 XL seemed to be dehorned better than the Hellcat. While the controls like the slide stop were a little undersized, everyone was impressed with the pistol’s accuracy and how easy it was to quickly address the steel plates during more accelerated shooting.
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