Couldn't wait til tomorrow to shoot this thing, so went to the right after work to give this thing a try! OK, that's about all I know how to put down even half rationally because this pistol is just unbelieveable! Even to a novice like myself (I've only taken up pistol shooting again a few months back),#the difference is THAT noticeable! I brought along my P320 too, which I first used to put some rounds through of a couple 9mm test batches I'd done up. That left me some factory 147 grain AE to use for back to back comparisons of the two Sigs.
First, the X5 again is a BIG gun - heavy (which I like) but very well balanced and it shot those 147gn rounds as if they were .22's - there was that little recoil! The P320 with the exact same rounds was snappier, has a trigger that seemed to weigh a ton in comparison, and grips that just didn't seem as comfortable - again in back to back shooting, as they certainly seemed fine before! I did have the X5's trigger weight on it's lightest setting at ~2lbs. That did take a little getting used to at first though, as after shooting the 320, it seemed just brushing your finger against the X5's trigger would fire the gun.#
As I said I'm pretty much a pure novice at all this yet, with a pretty crude meter still at this point for rating the finer points of what makes a "good" firearm, but this X5 is that nice that even my poor skills can't help but notice a difference. The P320 is certainly a nice pistol too, but nowhere in the same league it's safe to say. I'll leave it there as I'll just ramble as I wax poetic about this thing LOL.
So, after some plinking loads and using the P320 to test my handload recipes, I used the factory rounds for the following back to back X5/320 comparison shooting at 10m, 15m, and 20m (all shots taken while standing, free-hand): what the targets don't tell, especially the 10m one, is how much harder I had to concentrate with the 320 to try to get my best - with the X5, it took a lot less time to shoot the same number of rounds, as it just felt that much more comfortable and well..."right".
Those two flyers for the X5 were the first 2 shots and purely the result of readjusting to the very light trigger again, after shooting the 320 first at 20m.
First, the X5 again is a BIG gun - heavy (which I like) but very well balanced and it shot those 147gn rounds as if they were .22's - there was that little recoil! The P320 with the exact same rounds was snappier, has a trigger that seemed to weigh a ton in comparison, and grips that just didn't seem as comfortable - again in back to back shooting, as they certainly seemed fine before! I did have the X5's trigger weight on it's lightest setting at ~2lbs. That did take a little getting used to at first though, as after shooting the 320, it seemed just brushing your finger against the X5's trigger would fire the gun.#
As I said I'm pretty much a pure novice at all this yet, with a pretty crude meter still at this point for rating the finer points of what makes a "good" firearm, but this X5 is that nice that even my poor skills can't help but notice a difference. The P320 is certainly a nice pistol too, but nowhere in the same league it's safe to say. I'll leave it there as I'll just ramble as I wax poetic about this thing LOL.
So, after some plinking loads and using the P320 to test my handload recipes, I used the factory rounds for the following back to back X5/320 comparison shooting at 10m, 15m, and 20m (all shots taken while standing, free-hand): what the targets don't tell, especially the 10m one, is how much harder I had to concentrate with the 320 to try to get my best - with the X5, it took a lot less time to shoot the same number of rounds, as it just felt that much more comfortable and well..."right".
Those two flyers for the X5 were the first 2 shots and purely the result of readjusting to the very light trigger again, after shooting the 320 first at 20m.
