Y’all know me and know my preferred carry gun is a Wilson Combat EDC X9.
Some of y’all know me well enough to know “preferred” was a giveaway. For most of the last couple of months, I’ve been carrying a P365XL Elite.
I made this switch because there’s been a few places I’ve had to go lately where I couldn’t remotely risk printing a firearm.
But this isn’t about having given up on the 1911, because I still carry the WC more often than the Sig. This is about going back and forth between irons and a red dot. I’ve done tens of thousands of presentations with iron sight pistols and it’s pretty natural for me to draw and end up with the f/r sight aligned and ready to go on target.
This little Sig has the tall night sights AND the MRDO on top of the WC grip. Let’s talk about why I went with that grip. I bought the grip before I bought the gun because I was really set on the S&W Shield Plus for mathletes from an ergo standpoint. But it still felt different enough from my WC that I didn’t feel comfortable. So I bought the WC grip module for the P365 to do some presentation work.
It’s no 1911 feel, but it’s closer than either the Sig or S&W offerings. It’s really close to what a WC 1911 grip feels like except the web of the thumb seats higher and the cutout in the trigger guard allows the middle finger and all the others just a bit more real estate so you get a full grip on the grip. That’s a good thing in my book. So that’s how I came to own the P365.
Now, back to the important part. The Sig has tall irons and the MRDO. I like MRDOs, especially on rifles for CQB. What I’ve learned is this little gun has to be presented just a bit higher from the draw or ready position to get the MRDO or the irons in the correct position. Invariably, the sight picture ends up being low, and most of that is attributable to the height of the portion of the gun above my grip being soooo much lower that on a 1911 or duty size 9mm. Generally, what feels like a natural arm rotation/position on the WC winds up with the Sig being somewhere between low read and ready with neither the reticle nor the irons fully visible.
My lesson learned from this is if you’re going to swap guns for EDC, put in the reps on draw/presentation. It’s more important than pulling the trigger.
I’ve got maybe a thousand reps on the little Sig and I’m still off enough for it to be a conscious item to check for and that could be the difference one day.
Some of y’all know me well enough to know “preferred” was a giveaway. For most of the last couple of months, I’ve been carrying a P365XL Elite.
I made this switch because there’s been a few places I’ve had to go lately where I couldn’t remotely risk printing a firearm.
But this isn’t about having given up on the 1911, because I still carry the WC more often than the Sig. This is about going back and forth between irons and a red dot. I’ve done tens of thousands of presentations with iron sight pistols and it’s pretty natural for me to draw and end up with the f/r sight aligned and ready to go on target.
This little Sig has the tall night sights AND the MRDO on top of the WC grip. Let’s talk about why I went with that grip. I bought the grip before I bought the gun because I was really set on the S&W Shield Plus for mathletes from an ergo standpoint. But it still felt different enough from my WC that I didn’t feel comfortable. So I bought the WC grip module for the P365 to do some presentation work.
It’s no 1911 feel, but it’s closer than either the Sig or S&W offerings. It’s really close to what a WC 1911 grip feels like except the web of the thumb seats higher and the cutout in the trigger guard allows the middle finger and all the others just a bit more real estate so you get a full grip on the grip. That’s a good thing in my book. So that’s how I came to own the P365.
Now, back to the important part. The Sig has tall irons and the MRDO. I like MRDOs, especially on rifles for CQB. What I’ve learned is this little gun has to be presented just a bit higher from the draw or ready position to get the MRDO or the irons in the correct position. Invariably, the sight picture ends up being low, and most of that is attributable to the height of the portion of the gun above my grip being soooo much lower that on a 1911 or duty size 9mm. Generally, what feels like a natural arm rotation/position on the WC winds up with the Sig being somewhere between low read and ready with neither the reticle nor the irons fully visible.
My lesson learned from this is if you’re going to swap guns for EDC, put in the reps on draw/presentation. It’s more important than pulling the trigger.
I’ve got maybe a thousand reps on the little Sig and I’m still off enough for it to be a conscious item to check for and that could be the difference one day.