Pre-travel isn't bad at all and is expected in a modern semi. However one the pre-travel is taken up the trigger feels like it's dragging thru mud with a bit of sand in it and then it will break. Yeah the break point is a surprise but that is only because that dragging thru mud feel smothers everything.

Note, I am coming from a Ruger LC9S Pro which has an exceptional trigger with light pre-travel and then a weighted travel as smooth as polished leather on wet ice and a perfect glass rod break. I'll also note my carry pistol before the Ruger was a 40 caliber P239 with a not SRT trigger which means it had ZERO creep.

I'll also not that at one time Sig had a reputation for exceptional triggers but that started degrading with the SRT triggers. As bad as the trigger on my P365 is I can only think that shooters today have been so inundated with mushy triggers that they just don't know how poor triggers are today.

So the new pistol has a pretty poor trigger. Good news it shoots where I point it and it was fault free with the first 50 rounds downrange. It also provides an additional 3 rounds and is as concealable as my Ruger. Tomorrow I plan on doing some more shooting and finding out which weight bullet it's regulated for. First time out I grabbed a box of 115 grain UMC and it was about 3 inches low at 30 feet. Loaded up some 125 grain target loads tonight to try out tomorrow and broke out 20 rounds of the "good stuff" at 147 grains to see which will shoot on center. I'm thinking it will end up being regulated for 147 grain loads like my Ruger but tomorrow will make that clear.

I have the 365XL and the trigger is a bit mushy and not great, but for a self defense pistol its ok to me. Full size guns I expect great triggers but I am only shooting people pretty close with most HD guns. I practiced with it and I can make hits as needed.

Good luck with your blaster.

PB

So I’m not so familiar with the inner working of the P365. But no one else answered you, and I’m bored since the kids went to bed, so I’ll toss an answer at you.

I don’t know if it’s a fully cocked striker. But the initial resistance is the firing pin block. So if your unsatisfactory feeling is at the beginning, I’d take the slide off and play with the block to see if there’s anything rough going on with that.

If the P365 is fully cocked, the only other thing that happens is dropping the sear. There could be a bit of an engagement that it slides down before releasing; I don’t really know. If it’s not fully cocked, then you’re going to have a bit of spring stacking as it completes cocking and then releases.

Personally, while I can appreciate a nice trigger, I don’t get too hung up on them. With proper fundamentals, it doesn’t matter unless it’s really a terrible trigger like the VP70. Great triggers are nice in competition. I imagine in a defensive situation, you won’t know. The P365 is not a competition firearm.

But I’m also not experiencing what you are; my P365 has a perfectly serviceable trigger. It’s better than most striker fired pistols. Have you done a real good cleaning? Taken the FCU out and maybe got something slightly bent in the process? Just throwing darts here.

Yea maybe a good cleaning to ensure there isn’t something that shouldn’t be there. I have 6 of these and none exhibit what you are describing. Sounds to me if you can’t find the issue you should go back to your Ruger. Hell, your Ruger trigger sounds better than most of my match guns.

Polished leather on wet ice with a perfect glass rod break? Why would you swap out of that? 3 rounds ain’t worth it. And I can tell you the best 365 trigger out there won’t compete with what you are describing. At all.

Mine was that way also.

So I put in the spring kit from M*Carbo and cleaned and lubed all the internals in the slide while I was there.

problem's gone.

Striker guns feel odd to me, no matter how smooth it is.
The only time I notice it really is when I dry fire.
I just roll through the mush and motor on during live fire.

Driving it low and left was my challenge.

I didn't find the trigger to be awful, but wanted it to be a bit smoother so I put in the MCarbo kit but didn't change out the striker spring. Only the Sear spring and Striker block spring. These two things brought the pull down to close to 4 lbs. I thought that was too low for a carry gun, so I put the stock sear spring back and with only the striker block spring changed out the pull was an acceptable 4.5 -4.75 lbs. Still a bit gritty, but I've seen this wane the more it's shot. FWIW, I've had the same issues with my G43, also solved with a little action work.

Thanks for the replies guys, it's nice to know that it's probably just the design that is at fault. As for the LC9S versus P365 comparison the Ruger has an exceptionally good striker trigger and the P365 is rather poor. However these are defensive pistols and I believe that magazine capacity trumps the poor trigger so the Sig comes out ahead. It also points out that if Ruger ever decides to do a double stack version of the LC9S it will be a run away hit.

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It also points out that if Ruger ever decides to do a double stack version of the LC9S it will be a run away hit.

Isn't that what the Max-9 is for?

Iron Chef, I never thought about the Max 9, with that name I figured it was just another service sized pistol. After your post I took a look at it and it has the same footprint as the LC9S in a double stack configuration. May look into that for next year, so thanks for the comment.

Max-9 is very close in size to the LC9s. Main difference is that the grip is thicker to accommodate the increased capacity.

https://www.handgunhero.com/co...-max-9-vs-ruger-lc9s

Max-9 does not cost much more either. I've seen them for under $400 lately.

I've never felt two P365 triggers that felt the same. The XL models seem to have the worst triggers comparted to the standard models.

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Originally posted by Prepper_Pig:
I've never felt two P365 triggers that felt the same. The XL models seem to have the worst triggers comparted to the standard models.

Same FCU in XL as a base 365. Completely interchangeable.

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