osteodoc08
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Well, I finally broke down and bought myself a new Sig Sauer P238 in the plain Nitron finish. I just wanted to give my initial impressions
When I got it home I stripped it and cleaned it. Everything was nicely finished and I did not find any tooling marks to speak of or any burrs for that matter. I lubed it up nicely and got it ready to go for my test outing.
For the test outing I had 100 rounds of Tula 91 grain fmj cheap plunked stuff, 75 rounds of wwb stuff I had lying around, 50 hornady defense and 50 hornady something else.
On round number 10 of the Tula ammo, I got a stovepipe. At this time I was really wondering if I had one of those lemons that everyone was talking about. That was cleared and on round 15 I had a failure to go into battery. I was really cussing at this point. I tried to give the slide a nudge and it was a no go. I pulled that round out and looked at it. Didn't really notice anything but just left it sitting on the tailgate of my pickup. By this time I was really starting to become concerned.
But.....there was no need for that because everything else cycled just fine. I think the Tula ammo is just cheap fodder and I experienced what cheap fodder does. All the hornady and the wwb functioned as expected.
I did not test absolute accuracy but it was minute of plastic bottle and coffee tin at 15 yards or so. I really enjoyed the night sites on it.
Recoil was more than manageable and I found then little P238 to be quite soft shooting.
I will return with a more in depth review and some accuracy testing for next time.
I was going to measure the one Tula round that did not go into battery but I just tossed it away before measuring.
Hope this one is a keeper.
When I got it home I stripped it and cleaned it. Everything was nicely finished and I did not find any tooling marks to speak of or any burrs for that matter. I lubed it up nicely and got it ready to go for my test outing.
For the test outing I had 100 rounds of Tula 91 grain fmj cheap plunked stuff, 75 rounds of wwb stuff I had lying around, 50 hornady defense and 50 hornady something else.
On round number 10 of the Tula ammo, I got a stovepipe. At this time I was really wondering if I had one of those lemons that everyone was talking about. That was cleared and on round 15 I had a failure to go into battery. I was really cussing at this point. I tried to give the slide a nudge and it was a no go. I pulled that round out and looked at it. Didn't really notice anything but just left it sitting on the tailgate of my pickup. By this time I was really starting to become concerned.
But.....there was no need for that because everything else cycled just fine. I think the Tula ammo is just cheap fodder and I experienced what cheap fodder does. All the hornady and the wwb functioned as expected.
I did not test absolute accuracy but it was minute of plastic bottle and coffee tin at 15 yards or so. I really enjoyed the night sites on it.
Recoil was more than manageable and I found then little P238 to be quite soft shooting.
I will return with a more in depth review and some accuracy testing for next time.
I was going to measure the one Tula round that did not go into battery but I just tossed it away before measuring.
Hope this one is a keeper.
