Picked up a new P365 today, born March 2019. I have wide hands with short fat fingers and was leery of buying it. But I got a great deal from my local dealer.

It’s more like a g26 with the flush fit 10 rounder, no pinky grip. With the 12 round magazine, it fits my hand about as a g19 does. Length-wise anyway for both. Actually feels better in the hand that way, about half to a third of my pinky hangs off.

Recoil is a bit snappy, but the accuracy was good out to 15 yards. Kind of thinking I agree with a previous post that this would be a perfect ccw if it had a 4” barrel. Now if I could convince someone at sig of that I’d be set.

I haven’t shot one but my impression was it subjectively felt much smaller then a G26 to me.

Good luck, shoot safe.

It was a good bit smaller around. But the height of the grip seemed about the same. It looks so small but it fit the hand really well with the 12 round magazine. The only guns I’ve ever shot that were smaller were a Keltec 380 and a S&w 642 with an action job. I think the p365 was more comfortable to shoot than both, but I liked the 642 trigger smoothness better.

Congrats!

I’m planning on buying a second P365 to have for when I retire...

I will buy a P365.

After buying my P365 and having put rounds through it...this is the 9mm carry gun that I have been waiting for.
Enjoy yours!

Compared to a G26, the P365 is substantially smaller and more concealable in the pocket.

I still do a double take each time I see the magazine and grip; it's still remarkable to me that it holds 10 rounds for its size.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
..it's still remarkable to me that it holds 10 rounds for its size.

I've yet to handle a P365 or its magic mag. How are Sig doing this? It seems the physics of ammo size are pretty well set, what are they doing no one else is? Is the spring design revolutionary?

Is Sig's P365 mag design proprietary or will other manufacturers now replicate what Sig is doing with their new firearms?

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Originally posted by Ripley:
I've yet to handle a P365 or its magic mag. How are Sig doing this? It seems the physics of ammo size are pretty well set, what are they doing no one else is? Is the spring design revolutionary?

Is Sig's P365 mag design proprietary or will other manufacturers now replicate what Sig is doing with their new firearms?

You can bet your sweet a** that other manufacturers have completely reverse-engineered the P365, specifically its magazine design. And there is no doubt, the magic is all in the design of the magazine.
I have not done the research to validate this, but I would imagine Sig has protected their design as robustly as possible.

It’s basically a 1.5 stack magazine so to speak. When combined with the thin walls of the mag body and I am sure some follower/spring magic you basically get this mag. It’s not magic per say. My biggest fear would be how quickly will the magazines start to fail. It seems they have gone to the hairy edge of spring compression/follower design etc. (NOT SAYING THE MAGS WILL BE ANY MORE OR LESS DURABLE THEN OTHERS) I am just saying it’s tight.

Glock, having a polymer overmold will never be able to get close to this unless they go with a thin walled steel magazine. IMO.

I think the P365, assuming it works through all it’s teething issues (which are normal for a new design and totally anticipated for something so small)will be an industry paradigm shift.

I have two. They seem tiny compared to a 26. Not much weight though so the recoil is a bit more.

There’s no doubt that the P365 astounds a lot of people when they realize that it holds 10 rounds. My DIY P320 X-Compact feels small in the hand but when you put it side by side with the P365, it just plain looks huge.







In this pic the trigger guards are lined up, hiding how much taller the P320 slide is compared to that of the P365.

Congrats on the new pistol! Enjoy!