The SigSauer booth was huge and packed full of people from the minute I walked in when they opened the exhibit hall at 9:00, and it was still full when I went back there just before I left at noon.

There were two places in the booth where the P365 was on display and attendees could hold them, rack the slide, pull the trigger (no firing pin), check out the nice and short reset, see how the 10- and 12-round magazines fit, and get the lowdown on the P365 ammo (the details on that are pretty much what I posted the other day). A Sig rep was standing at one wall with five pistols mounted attached to cables. There was a line of people waiting to hold the guns and talk to him. At a large semicircular counter on the other side of the booth, about eight P365s were attached to the counter with cables and people were also lined up to play with them. Two had mounted lights. One is a green laser dot attachment and another is a fairly bright weaponlight attachment. They mount pretty easily—-the upper part slides along the proprietary front rail and the lower part goes right over the trigger guard. The mounts are secured with two small screws. The lights activate by putting a little pressure on a button in the middle finger groove.

This is a VERY popular gun at the show. The reps said that as of this past week, Sig was shipping 5,000---yes, five thousand---P365s every week. The number of pending orders as of this past week is 80---yes, eighty---thousand.

The P226 and P229 Legion and Nitron pistols were on display, as were a great-looking P225-A1, several P210s, and the P320 in a couple of configurations (including X and RX). Lots of people were handling the P320. The X and RX series were represented as well. Several nice Sig 1911s, P238s, and P928s were on the wall.

In another area, they had a P226 and P320 with Romeo sights for people to inspect. They look really good and look like they’d work very well, although a red dot sight pistol just isn’t my thing.

At a separate display, the M17 military pistol was a big draw, and they showed a number of configurations with both standard and extended magazines.

There were lots of Sig rifles there---the M400, MCX Virtus, 716, MPX, and MCX Rattler series. They were displayed and cabled so you could pick them up and work the charging lever, pull the trigger, and manipulate them to really get a feel for them.

The Virtus is really impressive, because you can choose it in either 5.56 or 300 BLK and pick different stocks, handguards, barrels, and optics. The MCX Rattler, available only in 300 BLK, has a five-inch barrel and was developed for elite military forces. The MPX is available in either a 16-inch barrel carbine or 4.5-inch barrel sub-gun. The M400 has a direct impingement OS with a Romeo Red Dot optic included as part of the package.

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Several of the vendors/manufacturers commented to us yesterday they were surprised by how busy Friday was. They thought the combination of weekday and rain would keep a lot of folks away. They also commented that if this was the Friday crowd, Sat/Sun were going to be a madhouse.

If it is anything like Atlanta last year, the vendor floor will be packed.

The vendors will have some pretty cool stuff out there. FN will probably have their civilian M249s out there. Sig will have a large display area. Enjoy!

Bump to the top for full review.

Meh.....I'm waiting for the report on the Lorcin booth

Thanks for the update.

The Sig booth was a madhouse. The only booth busier was the 5.11 Tactical (it was much smaller).

I was disappointed they put the P365 on the wall since they had already over a dozen at the two floor displays (1 was stock P365s, and the other was with their lights/lasers). The reason I was disappointed was that the wall display was next to the P210 and it took 10 minutes to see the P210 because of the P365 crowd.

Max Michel was in the Sig area signing autographs while I was there.

The rest of my impressions are here.

Well, I was happy... I got to meet somebody important. . I informed Mr. Pappas we were one of his dealers (albeit a small one) and he was all too happy to chat!

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Originally posted by dry-fly:
Well, I was happy... I got to meet somebody important. . I informed Mr. Pappas we were one of his dealers (albeit a small one) and he was all too happy to chat!

Mike was actually the first person we ran into yesterday. You’re right, he was awesome to talk with and seemed very excited to chat with a couple guys who knew his background and history. While talking with him, Chris from KNS Precision, came over with a new folding suppressor height sight for handguns to show off. Between the two of them we had a very enjoyable conversation about suppressors and hosts.

The other booth/group that really impressed me was the B&T guys. Very knowledgeable and as excited to show off their guns as we were to look at them. They had a VP9 that was pretty cool to see.

So if they keep this up, it will take them roughly four years to sell 1,000,000 units. Not quite as fast as the GLOCK 43 but still impressive if they keep it up.