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From The Firearm Blog today -
Full and original text at http://www.thefirearmblog.com/...20/sig-sauer-p365xl/ OK, I admit to not having paid that much attention to the P365, but...I've got a couple of questions here. Stainless steel frame? That's gotta be a typo or a reference to a chassis or something, right? Why would they do that when they seem to be doing great with polymer frames? Flat is good, optic capability is nice, and I'm perfectly willing to believe that the beavertail will add something useful in a pistol this small and light. But why put that much effort into what's really a very incremental upsizing of a successful pistol? If you look at the numbers they give for both the original and the XL, it seems more like the difference between the 2022 and the 2022 Compact than anything else. Is a half inch longer grip really going to make it big enough for the fat-fingered among us? Why not give it at least the 3.9" barrel of the P225 and P228/229? Is a 0.2" shorter barrel really going to make a pistol that much more concealable, or am I crazy to think that another 0.2" of sight radius might be at least slightly better? At any rate, it'll be interesting to pick one up and fondle it when the pistols are released into the wild. If nothing else, it might have a long enough grip to be interesting to my pudgy-fingered self and the flatness of it is appealing. | ||
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The “frame” of a handgun is the part with the serial number and therefore is legally the gun by itself. In the P365, like the P320, the serialized frame is the stainless steel U-shaped trough-like part that holds the trigger, sear, and other major parts of the action of the pistol. Another term for the serialized part of the gun is “receiver,” and at least one SIG factory armorer’s manual uses that term for the part as well. In my experience, however, “frame” is used more often with handguns, and “receiver” with long guns. The P320 and P365 frame is also the part that some people like to call the “fire control unit” because they evidently don’t understand the “frame” concept or perhaps because they’re referring to the entire assembly—trigger, sear housing, slide catch, etc. “Chassis” might be a usable term, but most of the time it refers to a major supporting part that a rifle, including its barrel, is assembled into, and does not have a serial number (fortunately for those of us who like to experiment with different chassis for our rifles). “I can’t give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.” — The Wizard of Oz This life is a drill. It is only a drill. If it had been a real life, you would have been given instructions about where to go and what to do. | |||
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If you were to transfer the fire control module for either gun, the 4473 block describing the item would say "receiver". | |||
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Good to know. Thanks. “I can’t give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.” — The Wizard of Oz This life is a drill. It is only a drill. If it had been a real life, you would have been given instructions about where to go and what to do. | |||
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