Have any of you shot .357 SIG with the 3.9" slide and barrel using the P320 medium-width sub compact grip module?

Shooting this caliber in a compact P320 was a breeze. I can't really tell any appreciable difference in recoil between 9x19 and 357 SIG in this configuration. I an wondering what to expect using the sub compact frame? I'm going to try it anyway, but I am certain many of you have lots of experience with the 357 SIG caliber.

I am not very recoil sensitive.

I found 357 Sig to recoil less than 40S&W but the bark and flash was significantly more.

Agree with above. Less recoil then .40 but far more concussive.

10round Summed it up.

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Originally posted by 10round:
I found 357 Sig to recoil less than 40S&W but the bark and flash was significantly more.

Sums it up for me as well.
I ran a G33 for awhile.
Shot it better with 357sig than the 40 G27 barrel I ran in it at times.

357sig is just plain fun to shoot..

I don’t have a subcompact grip module, but have fired 200+ rounds of 357 SIG with a 3.9 inch barrel and P320 Carry module. I also have extensive experience with firing the 357 from Classic line SIGs, although not so much in recent years. The recoil characteristics of the 357 are enough different from those of the 40 S&W to be noticeable if I’m paying attention to them rather than just trying to hit the targets, but my speed and accuracy performance is no different. My split times are a little slower with 357 and 40 than when shooting 9mm, but otherwise I shoot them just as well as the less powerful round.

10round's description nails it.

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357sig is just plain fun to shoot..

Yes indeed it is. Do wish it wasn't quite so expensive to shoot though, even in 'normal' times. And finding available factory ammo THESE days...definitely not a user-friendly experience.

I've never shot 40 and so can't compare but do shoot 357 Sig a good bit as of late.

I shoot it in a P239 and it does take a little getting used to... as you the OP said there if very little difference in a full size pistol... but with smaller I can for sure tell it. I personally would not go below 'compact' I think sub compact would be doo much... but then I'm not one of those folk who goes to the range and runs through a couple hundred rounds of ammo. Usually a magazine or three and I'm done.

My solution to the cost of ammo is to carry 357sig but practice with 9mm.... same model pistol just different calibers.... but then it seems many folks only have one gun and shoot one caliber, I guess.

it is harder to tell on larger steel/alloy frame pistols. i carried, sometimes still carry, a glock 33. it is a bit snappier then a 26 (9mm). so imo the smaller/lighter guns show the difference a bit more...which isnt a big difference anyway. it really is not a big deal. there are much more punishing handgun calibers out there.

i got my first .357 sig in early 2001 or so, cant leave the caliber behind despite ammo selection.

I also think the .40 has more felt recoil than either the 9x19 or the .357 SIG. The .40 is usually a 180gr or 165gr projectile as opposed to a 115gr or 124gr 9x19, and the 125 gr .357 SIG projectiles. The heavier the projectile, the more felt recoil, velocity non withstanding.
"For every action there is an opposite and equal reaction" - hence the bullet weight is one factor in recoil.

I think the .40 is a great cartridge. I do not understand why the ammo geeks say the newest 9x19 equals effectiveness of the .40 cal. I read their ballistic tables but I just don't believe it. I like the 9, I never met a caliber I didn't' like (excepting 25acp).

9x19 is cheaper to produce and easier for some shooters to control than the 9mm. There was another alternative to changing calibers - it's called PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!

I have shot the .357 out of p229 and p239 as well as the .40 and 9mm.

I always thought the recoil was the same force as the .40 but the pulse was a bit quicker.

As for smoke and noise when I fire the .357 at an indoor range, at the first shot everyone looks to see what is going on.

After the first magazine, people go back to what they were doing.

We issue the Glock 31/32. We used to have 22s.

The best way I can describe felt recoil is:

.40 was back and up.

357 is straight back.

I carry .357 Sig, primarily in a G32.

I carried .40 for quite a while, largely in a P239 or P2000SK. I like .40. For me, .357 Sig is about better penetration for the same pistol or same size pistol, same round count, same controllability. Same everything. And of course, why not?

I don't really notice any difference. I shoot the same pistols with 9mm conversion barrels at the range, and .40, which is a lot less expensive (or was) than .357.