P320 because it replaced the Beretta M9. The inertial discharge thing before the upgrade is just more fuel to the fire.

My beef with it is highly biased and not exactly rational. I have never shot one perhaps if I did my tune would change.

I had a P290RS in the Olive-Rubber Bronze. Beautiful gun.

But I sold it because I just couldn't fall in love with the trigger.

Another vote for the P290RS. My Kel-Tec P-11 has a better trigger, and the magazines are hard to load to rated capacity. It only cost $300 new, so you get what you pay for.

I just could never fall in love with the P245. I wanted to like it, but just never did.

Mmmmm, let's see, out of P220 9mm EU, P6, P225, P226, P228, P229, Sig Pro 2022, P250SC, P290RS, P238 .380 ACP.(everything but the P238 is in 9mm)

I guess the P290RS being that the trigger is definitely something that took getting used to.

oh but yea the P290RS was about 300 with tax back when I had got it so....

239.

To me, it is the 239. Too much bulk for the capacity in what is a carry pistol. That and I was never able to shoot it well.

Now there are a lot of SIG pistols I have never tried, but of all the ones I own, which are all classic P-models, the one I like the least is my P245. This is the SIG I shoot the worst. I still like it, but it is my least favorite.

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To me, it is the 239. Too much bulk for the capacity in what is a carry pistol. That and I was never able to shoot it well.

Different perspective is so interesting. I’ve shot a 239 in 40 for a long time. I always shot it great. For some reason I don’t shoot the 226 or 229 very well

at one time I considered myself a collector of sigs and tried to have at least an example of everything they made. Not every variation like the GOM titanium puck colored what ever what ever but one sample of the line. I've nearly all of them in one form or another. The absolute worst was the mosquito. bar none. The second worst was the P290. The third worst was the P250. Some of the odd ones I didn't like but were not problematic in actual operation like the above were the Mauser M2. My alltime favorite is still a 226. And the one I think is the best looking is the 232 but I don't like to shoot one very much.

Y'all thought the P320 was bad, I owned a P250.
Paid full price for it when they came out.
Sold it for a $50 loss less than a month later.
I've owned several Sigs and it was by far the worst..

The P239 has too short of a trigger reach for me, which leaves me with an akward grip and predictable results downrange. I like the idea of the gun, and they're well made...it's just sized wrong. I had similar issues with the P365.

Other single-stack sigs fit me fine, though...I love my P225 and P245, and I shoot P220s just fine as well.

It seems that there's a few general patterns forming.

P320: which I guess to a hardened classic SIG enthusiast this creation would be utter sacrilege. Dark Side indeed.

Mosquito: yeah, that's a baddie if there ever was one. As also cited by another, it too for me was one of two SIG-branded guns that I've ever sold, for all of the reasons given and then some for good measure. Like the pot metal slides that usually would begin to crack and fail when the round count got somewhere into the four figures, which seemed to vary quite a lot from what I recall. I gave up as my gun's round count was tallied around 2000 or so, though plenty of those rounds were cycling failures and not actual rounds correctly firing. Figured that I'd be better off getting something than ending up with nothing...and generally hating that experience while getting there to that point of zero return. I don't get this practice of having awful, heavy double action triggers on 22LR pistols. GSG isn't the only one who does this, but I do pity the budding Firefly buyer if the company hasn't tweaked that dang bang switch by now.

P230/232: I also like how great these things look. I also hate how harsh the recoil is on these blowback 380s, though my cheap Thunder 380 is surprisingly less painful and cringe-inducing on recoil doing the same thing. The light recoiling P238 by comparison just shames the classic SIG. JMB strikes again.

P239: ah, the squared edged front strap; my own peeve with that one. It's also not one of my favorites but I could still shoot them halfway decent. Not well enough to actually want to buy one though. But I did consider it on more than one occasion.

P245: I'll have to take your collective word on this model; never had an opportunity to try it myself, let alone buy one.

P290/290RS: liked the size but hated how deep the trigger breaks on these two. REAL challenge for me to shoot it with any decent accuracy, particularly at speed. At work I heard plenty of grousing from 290 buyers about light strikes, especially with hard primers like the type that S&B uses. Even heard a couple from RS owners. Also it seemed a crying shame that they couldn't dial in more of a P250 trigger vibe to the 290 range.

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I will be swimming upstream from most but I have developed a strong dislike for the P365. I went all in on it with holsters, installed a manual safety and bought 12 round magazines.
And I cant shoot it to save my soul. It is just too small. I think it is a hand size issue. I just traded it for a G26.

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P245: I'll have to take your collective word on this model; never had an opportunity to try it myself, let alone buy one.

I'd give it a shot if you get the chance. I'm not really understanding the hate for it in this thread...I love mine. It's like a slightly smaller, more carry-able P220, and everybody loves the P220. Sure you get two less rounds in a kinda large-for size package (one less than my full-size 1911), but you can carry full-size P220 mags as reloads, and IMO the gun itself hits the sweet spot of just small enough to carry comfortably while being large enough to shoot as accurately as the full-size variant.

I'm 6'5" and have pretty big hands...I wear a XL glove...and the grip with the factory six-round mag installed fits me perfectly.

P365. Just didn’t fit my hands and I couldn’t shoot it well. Plus loading the magazines was very difficult. Sure, an Uplula helps.

I shot a P226 DAK up at the SIG Academy. I did not care for the DAK trigger system. The standard P226, heck yea. Love it. Even love my Elite Dark. There are sight options if you look around.

239 too big for its capacity

This thread seems to reinforce both “size matters” and “stick to what you’re good at”.

And the thread helps me be content with my boring, limited “collection” of 226’s and a 220.

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Originally posted by gtnc:
To me, it is the 239. Too much bulk for the capacity in what is a carry pistol. That and I was never able to shoot it well.

Different perspective is so interesting. I’ve shot a 239 in 40 for a long time. I always shot it great. For some reason I don’t shoot the 226 or 229 very well

Agreed. I can't argue with the "too big for the capacity" especially these days when I can compare it to my wife's P365, but I still shoot my P239 as well as (or better than) I do any of the larger framed P-series.

The Hogue rubber grips (something I usually avoid) made all the difference in this case.

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Originally posted by FHHM213:
This thread seems to reinforce both “size matters” and “stick to what you’re good at”.

And the thread helps me be content with my boring, limited “collection” of 226’s and a 220.

I agree!