Truth be told I first shot the X-Five 10 yrs ago (early 2007), a member at the range, and R. Nicholls employee had gotten one of the first example to hit our shore from the German Mastershop, it was a brand new version back then. At the time, I was more into Swiss P210's, Pythons, higher end 1911's and vintage Smith's, I still am but never really forgot the X5's. Being a newer model back then I wanted to see if any issues was going to arise with it and since nearly all my play money was already into other toys and hobbies, you all know how it goes, I've postponed the idea for a while.
Fast forward to late summer 2012. I was at the range with both my P210 Legend Target and Supertarget for a side by side comparo, when a club member saw me shooting and as I was having a break asked if I wanted to perform an accuracy test, or simply shoot the heck out of both his nearly new X5 L1 and X6 L1, hell yeah I replied. That afternoon I shot nearly 200 rounds of factory ammo between the two pistols. From a rest, off hand, at 25 and 50 yards. Both X pistols were just has accurate as my P210's, maybe a tad better given my limited experience with them. From a rest both X5 and X6 gave me the same accuracy, one group was better with one, the next with the other. Off hand was another story, the X5 gave me the best accuracy on average of 7 out of 10 five shot group, I found the X6 too heavy (muzzle heavy) and the X5 had obviously the best weight/balance of the two (the X5 is still no lightweight at 47oz. empty w/o a magazine).
At that point I wanted, needed an X-Five L1. About a year later I placed an order and deposit with one of the sponsor above ^ and waited... ... ... Sadly I've learned that Sig Sauer GmbH had gone "rogue" and made a bad deal with some Latin American country and were under an indefinite export ban... That was July 14th 2014... I cancelled my order and took my deposit back.
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