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Originally posted by sprg03-A3:
I decided to not wait another 8 days until my next day off to pick up my X-5. Was a 120 mile round trip, but well worth it as I was anxious to get it, and to get the magazine issue with my new P220 Elite 10mm taken care of. Looking forward to cleaning and lubing it up, and taking it to the range! I picked up a box of SIG Elite 9mm because I wanted something a bit hotter than range fmj to help break it in.

So far, I really like the balance, feel and the grip. It seems like it is weighted such that there is some heft to it but it is well balanced and not muzzle heavy. It is pretty tight also, often not returning fully to battery when working the slide to reset the striker. The undercut is a real winner IMHO, allowing a nice, high grip. I think I am going to shoot it a few times before deciding to install the GG PELT straight trigger I bought in anticipation of getting the new X-5. It feels very good, but there seems to be a bit of take-up once the 'wall' is reached before the striker falls.

Mine has a little creep also but it seemed to get better as I shot. Shooting the RX with the PELT trigger along side the stock X5 really made me appreciate my PELT trigger. I may be ordering one for my X5 this week. I don't care if a trigger is heavy as long as there is a crisp break with minimal creep.

I picked up mine today and shot 150 rounds of 115 grain through it. No issues. Accuracy is terrific. The trigger reset seems longer than my 320 full size. I found I shot it better the more finger I had on the trigger rather than just the tip of the finger. The grip lines up differently for me. It seems there is less area for my support hand so I'm going to have to learn how to line up my support hand best.

I ran several failure to stop drills and hammer drills and find my second shot when shooting rapidly goes left. I'm attributing this completely to how my grip is at the moment. Not being the fault of the pistol. While shooting slow fire it is honestly one single hole.

Like everyone else said it does not lock up easily and has a stiffer spring for sure. It requires the slide running home to put it into battery. Overall for the pistol and 4 mags I don't think it can be beat right now.

The barrel/slide seems slightly longer without looking at the stats, just comparing it to my full size. I'll attempt to post some pics to compare sizes.

Any chance one could mount an optic and have co-witnessed irons like those available on the 320RX?

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Any chance one could mount an optic and have co-witnessed irons like those available on the 320RX?

Yes. A friend picked up two a few weeks back. One has a romeo1 mounted in place of the rear sight and has irons co-witnessed. Haven't seen it yet (might get some photos this weekend).

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Originally posted by WildSig:
UPDATE: The P320 X5 has just been added to the USPSA Production List with a weight of 33.5 oz and the magwell removed.

Interesting, I know of a lot more Shadow 2 owners than P320 owners. I wonder how they got to 2,000 units so quickly?

Thanks for the reviews, BTW. Really interested in this one...

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Originally posted by carotxn:
Any chance one could mount an optic and have co-witnessed irons like those available on the 320RX?

Read Alma's post at the bottom of page two. He even posted a video of it.

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Originally posted by huskerlrrp:
Interesting, I know of a lot more Shadow 2 owners than P320 owners. I wonder how they got to 2,000 units so quickly?

The requirement to be added to the Production list is to have 2,000 units available for the public to purchase and not 2,000 units purchased.

Rumor on the street though is that Sig actually shipped 2,500 units to distributors the Friday before it was approved for the Production list.

As I brought up earlier if you want to shoot the X5 in USPSA Production that magazines that come with the gun are too long and the original P320 10 or 17 round magazines will not fit into the gun because of the wings on the base pads.

As far as I know you have two options; either buy new base pads from Springer Precision or cut the wings off of the base pads of you 10 or 17 round P320 magazines.

I did one last night to show what needs to be done. The magazine on the left has the original base pad on it and the one on the right has the modified base pad with the wings cut off. The one on the right works just fine now in the X5.

Weight?

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Originally posted by drp1371:
Weight?

Just checked mine:
Empty, No Magazine: 30.90 oz.
Empty, With Mag: 34.70 oz.
With Full Mag (21 Rnds): 40.80 oz.

Thank you.

Picked mine up i Sunday and shot it the next day. Very nice! Trigger has some issues. Little bit heavy and it strikes my finger as the action cycles. Tried installing a straight GGI PELT but ran into problems with it. Have a couple of ideas that I want to try yet.

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Originally posted by drp1371:
Weight?

Here is mine configured for Carry Optics with a magazine inserted.



Setup the way I have it for Carry Optics the weight drops 1.9 oz from Tooky13's readings. In the original configuration with the supplied 21-round magazines mine was right around his weights.

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Originally posted by rscalzo:

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Any chance one could mount an optic and have co-witnessed irons like those available on the 320RX?

Yes. A friend picked up two a few weeks back. One has a romeo1 mounted in place of the rear sight and has irons co-witnessed. Haven't seen it yet (might get some photos this weekend).

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Can you please advise if this mod is done with a romeo1 and a set of factory p320 tall sights? Or is this set-up aftermarket sourced?. At SHOT Sig said leupold (Deltapoint Pro?) and Trij rmr cound be mounted. Seems to me the DPP would be stretch, but here's hoping.

My second question is that if the slide has difficulty locking up, I would think it is at minimum recoil spring weight from the factory.
Finally, if it is true that my GG trigger in my p320rx is better than the x5 trigger, that is dissapointing.

Comments, corrections, and solid info would be much appreciated.



P228, P938, P226 ESE, pP229, 226 SAO Legion, P320RX, P226 X-5e SuperMatch, P226 X6e Supermatch, X5e X-Bridge, X5/X6 weight mounts.

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Originally posted by sprg03-A3:
Picked mine up i Sunday and shot it the next day. Very nice! Trigger has some issues. Little bit heavy and it strikes my finger as the action cycles. Tried installing a straight GGI PELT but ran into problems with it. Have a couple of ideas that I want to try yet.

Can you clarify your problems with fitting the GG trigger kit?
Thank you.

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Originally posted by GandyDancer:

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Originally posted by sprg03-A3:
Picked mine up i Sunday and shot it the next day. Very nice! Trigger has some issues. Little bit heavy and it strikes my finger as the action cycles. Tried installing a straight GGI PELT but ran into problems with it. Have a couple of ideas that I want to try yet.

Can you clarify your problems with fitting the GG trigger kit?
Thank you.

I finally got it to work. I am not sue what I did finally to get it to function as there were several small issues, including the trigger not moving freely when the fcu was installed in the grip module and the take down lever was installed, and also when it was simply installed in the fcu without the trigger bar being installed.

Trigger feels noticeably lighter. Still has a bit of take-up and reset is pretty weak. Not a big deal as I don't ride the reset anyhow.

If the GGI trigger takes care of the trigger slap (for want of a better term) I will be happy. The X-5 is an awesome set-up, a marked upgrade from what is a hell of a pistol already.

It looks like the X-Carry may be shipping, as it was added to Davidson's site a few days ago and today it went from "0 Available" to "Allocated" which usually means they have stock but it's spoken for. The X-VTAC also popped up on their site the other day, but it's still showing 0 available.

X-Carry
X-VTAC

Does anyone know if Grayguns' flat faced PELT trigger is externally identical to an OEM X5 trigger?

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Originally posted by YVK:
Does anyone know if Grayguns' flat faced PELT trigger is externally identical to an OEM X5 trigger?

On the left is a GGI PELT, on the right is a stock X-5 trigger.

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Originally posted by YVK:
Does anyone know if Grayguns' flat faced PELT trigger is externally identical to an OEM X5 trigger?

It's pretty danged close, a function of parallel development around shared objectives. It's USPSA legal if that's the question.

-Bruce