"This little handgun found its way home to our gun safe when it pulled my wife to the gun counter at Cabela’s like a Star Trek tractor beam. Others, like Sig Sauer, just focus on making an amazing product and letting their work speak for itself." "Some manufacturers try to throw add-ons or gimmicks on their guns to try and catch your eye when you’re looking over the sea of normality at the gun counter. Sig also seems to make the P938 in almost every flavor and color. The Sig really stands out from the blued steel and stainless crowd. I’m a fan of the Flat Dark Earth color and the grips. This gun drew my wife to the gun counter like a magnet. Practice makes perfect and training with your carry gun so you are confident and consistent will be important with the little P938. Those with bigger hands may find like I did, that they need to modify their grip somewhat. This gun is a sub-compact model and as such it is small. The controls are easy to manipulate and reach. Hitting steel out to 35 yards was not a problem. Though my groups were a little low and left, I feel my grip and hand size were more to blame than the gun or sights. The gun grouped well at the 5-yard range I tested it at. Like all Sig products, I believe this gun will serve you reliably for many years.įeeding it cheaper brass cased ammo for training ran perfectly, CCI, American Eagle, etc. I experienced no issues with the Sig as far as feeding, firing, ejecting. Depress the ejector before reinstalling the slide By The Numbers Just be sure to press the ejector down and forward before moving the slide all the way to the rear. To reassemble the gun after cleaning, reverse the takedown procedure. The barrel is then easily removed for cleaning.The recoil spring and guide rod lift out easily.Line up the takedown notch with the slide stop, push the slide stop out of the frame and ease the slide off the frame.Retract the slide and inspect the breach to be sure the gun is unloaded.Breakdown Procedureīreaking the gun down for cleaning is simple and easy: A quick rack of the slide and the gun was ready to run again. Reloads were quick and easy once I adjusted my grip to allow the magazine to eject and fall free. At both 35 yards and 65 yards, I held on the top right edge of the targets at about the 2 o’clock position. Likewise, we have an 8” round plate at 65 yards and I hit it 2 out of 10 tries. However, I did run a couple of magazines downrange at a 12”x12” plate at 35 yards and hit the plate every time. Most of my shooting was at the 5-yard mark. With the handloads I found it easy to keep my 5-yard off-hand groups at about 1 1/2”. I experienced no failures to feed, fire, and eject, other than the above mentioned issued of riding the slide stop and not having the slide lock open. The majority of my shooting has been with handloads consisting of 115 gr Berry’s Plated Round Nose bullets. I have spent a couple of days with the gun at the range and probably run about 300-400 rounds of 9mm total through it so far. Again, a bit of grip adjustment and the slide locked open every time on the last round. I also found that a couple of times I was riding my support hand thumb on the slide stop and caused the slide not to lock open on the last round. If I adjusted my grip, the magazine ejected smartly. With regards to manipulating the controls on the P938, I did find that with my larger hands sometimes the magazine would hang up on the bottom of my palm. The Scorpion comes standard with an ambidextrous safety that allows for safe, confident Condition One carry. The slide stop is on the left side as is the magazine release. Sights are the awesome Siglite Tritium Night sights in a 3-dot configuration that are easy to pick up in full daylight and are super bright and sharp in low light.Ĭontrols are predictably where you would expect them to be on a 1911. The gun is finished in a Flat Dark Earth color with Hogue G-10 grips that are a handsome laminate with green, tan and light brown. While comfortable in my hand, I found my trigger finger position was a bit different than on bigger guns and pretty consistently pulled my shots a bit low and left at the 5-yard range.įor my wife, her shots were consistently centered on her point of aim.
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