Sig Sauer P365 XL Review

the cig p3 65 XL let's check it out [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] guys there's no question that sig really changed the face of concealed carry with the P 365 with a super small little pistol carrying ten rounds in the magazine about the size of your Glock 43 which carries six rounds and actually smaller than your Smith & Wesson shield this is a game changer guys this magazine design really made things completely different this carries the same thing as my Glock g26 and yet considerably smaller and definitely manageable at the range now obviously there were a few problems that sig had with the original P 365 and they fixed it in fact this pistol was one of the original early models and I've put over 1,500 rounds through it without one malfunction but of course sig didn't stop with just their p 365 they up the game with the XL this is a 12 round standard magazine slides a little longer flat trigger I mean there's some features to this handgun that really make it worth looking at and I want to thank Nate over gun Pro deals for sending the P 365 XL for this test & Evaluation and sending the original P 365 now obviously one of the big things with concealed carry is making a firearm that's manageable to shoot and yet can carry a lot of rounds and there's a balance between that and I think that's one of the things that sig really was going for with her magazine that's really the big plus for these pistols I mean you've got a really small magazine we're gonna make sure the guns are unloaded now you get to 12 round magazines with the P 365 XL you get two of the ten round magazines with the original this is a little bit of an extension but you can get a flush fit they both are 10 rounds but there are other options out there in fact there's all the way up to a 15 round magazine that came out with the P 365 XL and will fit the P 365 so that gets the same magazine capacity is your Glock 19 now one of the big things is the difference in size really there's not a lot of diff so one of the big things of course you're gonna get a little more in the grip and you know you've got two extra rounds if you put the 12 round baseplate it's pretty much flush fit with this one the exhale has a little more pronounced beaver tail then the standard P 365 it comes out just a little bit we put these together beaver tail end to end you can see it's about an inch or maybe just a touch under but actually the barrel length on the XL is 3.7 inches and on the standard is 3.1 inches so it's just about 6/10 of an inch overall length of the XL six point six inches with the standard 5.8 inches and the width is right around one inch both have the X ray three night sights a nice bright dot at the front and then two lighter or smaller dots at the rear and you can see the rear sight on the XL is a little bit longer than on the standard P 365 they're both stainless steel slides with a nitron finish and we have the polymer which is a glass reinforced nylon very ergonomic pistol and that's one of the things about the XL is it does feel your hand and also it does flare just a touch here at the bottom so it gives you more of a full size feel to the handgun and so that's really a big plus and it is somewhat slightly beveled so it's gonna allow for your magazines to go in a little bit straight another big thing with these two pistols is the XL you can see with the trigger has more of a flat face trigger which is more of a 90 degree angle and then with the standard it's got that regular trigger the curved trigger which is more of a fulcrum that brings it around with the exhale it's definitely being flat it's a 90 degree break so the trigger is actually a little crisper than it is on the flat face and I think that'll work its way out the more we shoot it of course you have your slide stop you have your takedown lever you have a proprietary rail right here for sig lights and lasers which I'm not really a big fan of I like to be able to put whatever I want to on there but that's the way sig designed it front and rear cocking serrations the texturing is very aggressive and of course you have your Sig Sauer here but again guys it just has a really nice feel especially with this beaver tail coming up and when you're at the range it really makes a difference when shooting now it's not hugely noticeable but it's definitely more snap a little more muzzle rised with the standard than it is with the long slide so it gives you a little more shooting ability longer sight radius a little bit better balance the magazine release right here and it is switchable to the other side but there's no other features on this side I mean this is a concealed carry piece and they want to make it as thin as possible even though the Glock 43 X and 48 have ambidextrous features but another big thing with the XL is this little top plate cover this can be removed and you can't put one of the Sig Romeo sights directly on this and so that is a huge plus and both of these are plus p rated so you can shoot any of your self-defense ammo in either one of these now one of the things that is different between the two we're going to look at it we break it down but some of the internals especially the guide rod has been beefed up with the XL just makes it a little more efficient of course there have been a lot of people that have had problems with their standard or the original early on and I think some of that was dragged on the primers there were some a couple of different features or different parts in the P 365 originally that were a little bit under spec and because of that they fixed it and then supposedly you know the problems have been taken care of now I have not had one malfunction with the standard P 365 and I know Hickok hasn't either I mean we've both shot a lot of rounds through this handgun or their handguns with no malfunctions but I know 10 military arms had a lot of problems with the first three that he had and they have made some changes with these but overall with all the shooting I've done with this I've got a lot of confidence now in the P 365 now of course one of the big contenders with the P 365 is the Glock 43 X and we're gonna make sure it's unloaded it has a 10 round magazine and the gun is empty well this does now come with silver pit finish to it they do make it now in the black which a lot of people were really complaining about the silver even though personally I've really grown to like this color and then with the front and rear cocking serrations and then of course they came out with the g48 which is a little bit of a longer slide but really the frames are the exact same so these can are actually interchangeable even interchangeable with their standard g43 and we've done a number of tests with those but one of the big things about the g43 X is it's ten rounds just like the standard P 365 but if you put these back-to-back the big difference is right here you're getting the same amount of rounds with the P 365 as you are the 43 X and this is with an extension with the flat base it's actually even smaller here with the XL we're getting 12 rounds and to be honest with you guys it actually extends a little bit past even with 12 rounds and so that is really a big game-changer now there is one thing that's coming out that's going to kind of even the playing field shield arms is coming out with a 15-round flush fit magazine to go into your G 43 X and G 48 once that comes out you're gonna have 15 plus one and so then with the extra base plate to make this 15 it's actually going to be pretty close and so that's just really something to look for if you're really loving the Glock which personally guys I'm a huge Glock fan I mean I love Glocks but the P 365 has really brought me around especially carrying 10+1 in this size firearm it has a much better magazine capacity than the standard G 43 now guys for 10 years I carried the Glock G 26 10 rounds but here you can see that it's definitely a lot thicker you're getting 2 extra rounds in this small little extension and then at the front a very slight difference another thing is guys the thickness of the grip I mean it's considerably less thick on the exhale now let's look at the trigger action of the exhale it's a flat faced trigger so it's just a little play to that 90 degrees a little stacking it is somewhat mushy they would reset right there the standard P 365 with the curve trigger we have some take up a little stacking and then a little more crisp break but again guys I think that just has to do with a number of different rounds that we put through this pistol reset right there bring out the Lyman trigger gauge from Brownells four pounds ten point six ounces four pounds thirteen point two ounces well thank the okie for sponsoring the ammo all made right here in the USA also big thanks to little loaders these things are life savers thumb savers and also gun mag warehouse supplied a bunch of magazines for the original P 365 and that we're going to be shooting in side-by-side and we're probably throwing some hornady critical defense as well just to do some testing [Music] now at the range with the P 365 Excel we wanted to compare it directly to the P 365 original a couple of things that we definitely noticed up front was the muzzle rise with the exhale to me it just is a flatter shooting handgun even though there's a little more metal at the top the balance just seems to be a little better and I think some of that too has to do with a little bit of an extension on the grip now if you put your +2 rounds or your 12-round magazine in the original P 365 you know you've got about the same length but just straight out of the box this gives you just a little more leverage a little more balance than the original P 365 you know the one thing about the 365 is that it is a small little compact Bulldog to me and with the exhale it gives you just a little extra but we also wanted to compare it with one of the big competitors which is the G 43 X and the G 48 of the G 48 hem of the long slide one thing about though that the G 48 is it still retains 10 rounds in the magazine yet it extends past where the P 365 does it's just a larger pistol now I'm a big Glock fan of in carrying Glocks for years but one of the things about the sig for me has changed is that magazine capacity with a shorter grip and so I like to carry smaller pistols appendix and for me having that little bit of shorter grip and more rounds is very appealing definitely to me one of the best concealed carry options on the market is the excel or just the original P 365 you know it just really fits that sweet spot I mean in all the areas you know before it was going to you know the six or seven rounds and still having a pistol that was actually this size or larger and I've always been leery of having that single stack six seven rounds with the ten rounds and plus one I just really feel more confident carrying the P 365 but then going to the better balance of the P 365 exhale I mean this really gives us a lot of options [Applause] now let's disassemble the firearm we're gonna drop the magazine go ahead and check to make sure the gun is unloaded bring back our slide bring our takedown lever around drop our slide and pull it right off you don't have to pull the trigger bring out our recoil spring and guide rod it is captive and then we have our barrel here with the standard P 365 same thing wait bring it back drop it release it pull it off now one thing you're gonna notice is that we have a two step guide rod with two springs then of course we have our barrel and we have our slide they've really beefed up the recoil spring on the exhale more than on the standard 365 and this is more like the Glock 26 recoil spring system and these are still but this gives you a little more power it slows the recoil down just a touch and allows for a little more efficiency when firing this pistol let me go ahead and we're going to reassemble making sure we get the right parts in the gun one thing you can do is to fire this you can change the slides out it just snaps back into place guys as far as the advantages of the XL over the original we have your flight trigger we have a plate here that it's removable you can put your rmr on here a little bit more balance less muzzle flip it is a little longer in the grip which for concealed carry I like a little bit of a shorter grip the P 365 is still very suitable yet it's just a little more snappy I think some of the improvements that they've made with the XL to make it just even more reliable is definitely a plus and then of course it has just a touch really about three quarters of an inch of a longer slide even though the barrel is only really 6/10 of an inch difference if you put the 12 round extension in here you've got the same length as you do in the 12 rounder now for me I like to carry a smaller pistol and to be honest with you as far as my standard concealed carry I would be more out to carry the P 365 standard than the XL but that has everything to do with your body size with your experience how you like to carry and that's one of the things about concealed carry because it's something you do every day it becomes part of your routine part of your lifestyle to have a gun that's a little more suitable a little more balanced flat trigger and you want that are more option you know the XL is definitely a great choice but one of the things about the g43 X which I love this handgun I love the way it feels in my hand and you say I've got the Talon grips on here this is just a little bit long and for me when I carry appendix this does tend to print and I really don't like that and really I went back to the g43 carrying it but once I got back out the P 365 I feel a lot more confident with ten plus one then six plus one and then if you start adding base plates it just gets bigger and I really appreciate native gun Pro deals for sending the original P 365 for me he was able to get this and then with the XL he also sent it and I really appreciate them being able to bring different firearms because it really helps to bring to you guys all kind of different guns the one thing also to consider is the price the original P 365 is running about 550 that does have the night sights it is sig quality when it comes to the P 365 XL we're looking at about 638 one of the big reasons is you're getting the armor cut you're getting the flat trigger and it's just a little bit of a beefier handgun so that is going to be a little bit of a difference in fact quite a bit of a difference but one thing to consider is that on your Glock G 43 X they're running just around the four hundred and fifty dollar range and so you're getting a little bit of a larger gun but about a hundred dollar difference now with the night sights now that definitely ups the ante a little bit and then of course with the ten round magazine in a much smaller package and so just want to kind of give you a comparison about where the prices are running and that again is those prices are from gun Pro deals and guys again I want to thank Nate every gun Pro deal for sending the sig p320 way from the industry I mean I'm gonna be objective no matter what but this just helps you guys to know that I'm being objective be strong be of good courage god bless america long live the Republic [Music] [Music] this is a good night here this is gum oh that's a good one Bailey adults are working well when you crouch flop that it closes off your vision bury your vision on the sides look I'm not the expert like you are hmm [Music]

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Length: 19min 43sec (1183 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 27 2019