Range Report: SIG P938

[Bad Caselaw]

Took the new P938 Nightmare to the range Sat.

-50/box Federal AE 147 gr. FP
-Two mags ea. 147 gr. HST and 147 gr. XTP.

Flawless... almost.

The pistol shot Great. Very easy to operate. Natural aim point. Low recoil/flip w/ a Two-finger/one handed grip. Cycled everything.

Accurate? 1-1/2" groups at 5 yards, 3" at 10 yards, and ~ 8" at 25 yards... One-handed.

Expect to get that down to 1"/2"/5" respectively after I get used to the trigger.

The Trigger? Heavy, maybe 6-8 lbs., w/ almost no discernible creep, and an icicle break.

Grips? Great. The checkered G-10 was very positive w/o the excess of my range buddy's Extreme "snake scale" G-10's. Exactly what I wanted.

Didn't see the brass, which is good, b/c it was not in my face. I would guess high 4 o'clock.

And, something that I also Really like? You can hand-load the chamber... easy. Just drop in a round, ride the slide down, and then press on the back end of the extractor lever, like a teeter-tooter... hops right over the base into battery.


So what is the "... almost"?

I had one round on one of the HST mags go... missing. Best I can recollect, I loaded the full mag from an open slide, and overhand charged it. Fired Five rounds to a locked back slide and empty mag.

Though that I had loaded the mag w/ a full Six.

Range buddy found an HST round on the floor back behind me, w/ a ding in it up near the case mouth. A rare round to just find on the floor, so I assume that is the mystery round. I have no idea how it got there.

I hand-loaded it and sent it on its way.

So, ...this is one awesome little rig that really does some nice work w/ the 147 gr. ammo.

Will investigate the mystery round the next trip out.




Caselaw

[96snake]

Nice. This is one of the top contenders for my ccw.

[Picturepro]

maybe he meant feet and not yards?

I'm a horrible shot, 8" group at 75 feet with this small gun sound great
I now have a P938 BRG, have not shot it yet.

hickok45 shot a great distance at 6min 30 seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Js4acN46k

[Bad Caselaw]

I gotta call BS on that...

Keep your money and your BS.

...and it was yards.


Your weak skills don't affect my shooting in the least.

Give it a try one handed at 25 yards and let me know how you did. I tried it at 25 yards at on target and at WEGC outdoors (better lighting) two handed, and its not easy to put 7 on a 8 x 11.5" piece of paper. But maybe we have found the sucessor for Brian Zins with Bad Caselaw, or maybe not.

Hey, Archimedes...

How close is ~ 8" to an 8 x 11.5" piece of paper...?


This was the first trip out of the box w/ this piece.

After I put 500 rounds through it, and shrink the groups to 5"...? You can pay me a $1,000.00.




Caselaw

[Bad Caselaw]

Easy money unless your full of it. And you are full of it.

I have shot bullseye a few times. I've seen great shooters scores. You are clueless and misleading others on what can be done with a 3" pistol....one handed. Did you use a mirror and shoot it backward too?? I bet you did big guy! Like Annie Oakley.

Have your cash ready, bigmouth...

...you are about 450 rounds away from being $1,000.00 poorer.




Caselaw

[Staticsouls]

I had the missing round happen to me on my first range trip with the 6 rnd mag only. I figured since the spring tension was so high maybe it was a double eject. When I receive my 7 rnd mag (5 days before I received the pistol) I loaded it up and let it sit for a few days. I wasn't able to do this with the 6 rnd since I was so exited to get out to the range.

Mine also does something kinda weird when loading up for a plus one in the mag, when I pull the mag to load the extra round the round on top falls out of the mag well. So one in the chamber, 4 or 5 in the mag and a loose round out of the mag well. Try it

[esp1]

If you guys do the MOA shootout, please video it and post.

[Bad Caselaw]

I had the missing round happen to me on my first range trip with the 6 rnd mag only. I figured since the spring tension was so high maybe it was a double eject. When I receive my 7 rnd mag (5 days before I received the pistol) I loaded it up and let it sit for a few days. I wasn't able to do this with the 6 rnd since I was so exited to get out to the range.

Mine also does something kinda weird when loading up for a plus one in the mag, when I pull the mag to load the extra round the round on top falls out of the mag well. So one in the chamber, 4 or 5 in the mag and a loose round out of the mag well. Try it

Never heard of a double-eject, but that is exactly what it seemed like.

Five rounds fired, Six rounds gone.


All the mags (4) are new Six-rounders. I'll exercise'em a little and then leave'em loaded. See if it happens again.

Don't know about the loose round on charging... I only loaded from an open slide (range dedicate). Will check for that as well.

Thanks.




Caselaw

[.45 ACP]

If you guys go, let me know. I'll video tape it.

[Staticsouls]

Not sure if it is just the a-zoom snap caps, but when you load the mag chamber a round and drop the mag out come a loose round. It doesn't affect cycling at all though.

[Justintoxicated]

I'd be lucky to get an 8" group with that gun at 10 yards.

I had rounds just fly out of the magazine on my HK expert when I loaded some SWC's per my reloading manual. Basically I would fire, a round would fly out of the magazine and the next round would get loaded in. Never seen anything like that before. Once I moved seating depth out a bit (significantly) farther the issue went away. Seems odd for that to happen with HST. Or maybe you racked the slide twice or something? When my HK (double-ejected? is that the right term?) the rounds were basically just launching out of the magazine, so one round would land on the floor and the next round would get chambered.

I would certainly be concerned if that the ammo your going to be using for carry, more testing is in order!

[CABilly]

Does this have some sort of pistol claw extractor that requires feeding the chamber only via the magazine? Are you saying you fill the mag, chamber a round from it, then drop the mag and replace the one you chambered to get to 6+1? Do you have to do it that way? Or can you drop a round in the chamber, close the slide and then insert the full magazine?

[pluke the 2]

i'd like to hear the results from the shootout as well. if local, i'd like to see this done. i fired a buddies 380 and i was lucky to get any shots on target at 10 yards

[CABilly]

I was able to get pretty consistent 4" groups at ten yards with a range rental so it wound up being my first/last SSE. I'll have to keep an eye out for that missing round thing. For a small pistol, it feels great and is pretty accurate

[_TomT_]

If OP is close I'll bring the popcorn.