pairof44sp
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“To the rest manufacturers: Please don’t be scared to offer smaller calibers in the micros and pocket pistols”To Sig: hey really like your 365, even if I was one of your beta testers back in 2018 and had to get it rebuilt after a class and only 975 rounds. I get it, it’s small and when you cram that much much awesomeness into a a new micro class of 9mms growing pains happen. All is forgiven and I bought another one just last year. But the grip module is flimsy and I keep dropping mags or the slide stop is engaged and the slide locks back when it shouldn’t. How about offering different size grips like the 320/250 series? I know you offer the X/XL grip, have use it and big fan. But a larger diameter and a tad more polymer would be nice.
To Glock: I know change is hard, but you are on the right track with the 43X/48. You don’t seem to mind offering a new magazine platform with them. So let’s transfer that over to the 43 and get that 7/8 round mag for them going. Cause have you seen the Ruger Max9 or Taurus GX4? Ruger and Taurus have literally left you in the starting gate, with Sig near the finish line. You can’t bank you future on government contracts. Others are just as good and will cut their cost to beat you out. My first suggest to your R&D department is to merge a 43 slide to a 26 frame, AND DONT LENGTHEN THE GRIP! Let loose of some of that polymer bulk and embrace metal. Little more metal lined, little less polymer coating.
To the rest manufacturers: Please don’t be scared to offer smaller calibers in the micros and pocket pistols. A lot of internet ninjas won’t buy them and say some nasty things about them, but real world users (those without tactical flannel or tattoos) will buy them. They might show their full-size pistol with RDS and Surefire on their belt in pictures, but they are sticking a snubbie in their pocket the rest of the time. Sure they will say “what’s the use” in their reviews, but real world users will be asking “when can we get one!”
And to the rest of you, make your damn sights easier to swap out!
To SW: j frame + 32 caliber = Love.
To Ruger: SP101 frame, but in lightweight alloy. Add steel cylinder, and real sights. Yeah, you have the polymer framed LCR, but let’s get real and go alloy. And don’t be afraid to put a half lug on the damn barrel! And let’s get some REAL boot grips for the LCR, not the stubby rubber monstrosity Hogue is making for it now. And the part about offering smaller calibers in your pocket pistol, read that twice! The LCP would be a great platform for 32/25. And if you have to put a safety on the LCPII, make it a real one or make it ambidextrous.
Carry on.....
Lefty
I think about this all the time. If I had an extra $2-3M, I would partner with a Turkish mfg and start The .32 Hangun Co.
- all new designs, just for 32, in poly semi and aluminum frame revolver.
- the “32 P24/7/365” would go up against the micro9s, but with 20 rounds in the grip. Would have 4” barrel
- 32 Handgun Co branded 7.65 Euro 32 maxed-out 225 ft pound ammo
- revolvers would have short cylinders and frames to match the ammo
- 8 rounds in a carry snub
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