![]() With the SAS package, SIG Sauer decided to eradicate the usual sights and their corresponding dovetails right out of the slide design altogether, instead choosing to incorporate a novel sighting solution – The Meprolight FT Bullseye sight. SIG Sauer also provided a novel solution to take this process one step further – the elimination of sights. This combination of letters after the model designation means the pistol has been treated to SIG Sauer’s special “melting” and de-horning treatment that eradicates sharp edges and corners, and provides a superior deep concealment platform with nothing to snatch on clothing during a draw. SAS doesn’t mean “ Special Air Services”, the acronym you might be familiar with – but instead stands for “SIG Anti-Snag System”. Stepping up the game, late last year SIG Sauer introduced the new SAS variant. The SIG Sauer P365 SAS compared to a Glock 26. the P365 comes with SIG Sauer’s proprietary black Nitron finish, and the grip frames are exchangeable so you can modify, stipple, spray paint, tape, fold, spindle, and mutilate to your heart’s content – a new grip module is just a couple clocks away. The P365 also offers a proprietary rail system to allow installation of light and laser systems, if that’s your bailiwick. Both guns have polymer frames and steel slides, but the SIG has an easily-removable stainless steel chassis insert to house the trigger group and slide rails, whereas the Glock has its parts all living in the polymer grip, held in place with pins. Both guns have factory extended magazines to increase capacity on the SIG to 12 rounds, with the Glock increasing to a heady 7 rounds. Unlike the Glock, steel sights come standard on the P365, the trigger pull for the P365 is far better in stock form, and the grip texture is, well, grippier than the Glock’s tiny molded-in mountain range of weird little pyramids. To put this in perspective, the 10+1 capacity P365 is slightly smaller in overall dimensions than the vaunted 9mm Glock 43, which only provides six rounds in the magazine. ![]() With dimensions of 5.8 inches long, 4.1 inches tall, and just one inch wide, the 17.8 ounce, striker-fired P365 is a tiny wonder of engineering. The diminutive 9mm-chambered SIG Sauer P365 SAS is, according to SIG’s website, “America’s #1 Selling Handgun” – and here’s why. And when a P365 SAS almost literally fell into my lap, I couldn’t say no – I grabbed the pistol. I waited a year or so to let the bugs get sorted, then the hunt began in earnest. However, I have a long-standing philosophy about mechanical objects: never buy the first ones off the assembly line – let some other schmoe be the guinea pig that sorts out beginning-of-production-run foibles. Honorable mentions go to the S&W M&P Shield, the Glock 43, and the Honor Defense Honor Guard pistols – they’re all wonderful guns in their own right – but the second I handled a SIG Sauer P365, I knew it was the one for me. But, wanting something more, I’d been trying lots of guns to find the right one. 38 caliber J-frame S&W revolvers, a Kahr MK40, and a S&W M&P40C had filled the small gun role for me reasonably well. I knew a smaller, pocket-sized gun was in order, and my eye was continuously roving to the SIG Sauer P365. My normal EDC, a Glock 19 Gen4, is extremely capable but a tad difficult to hide when it’s 92 degrees out with 86% humidity and you’re in a pair of cargo shorts and the lightest T-shirt you own. I’d been needing a really small pistol for concealed carry for some time. The SIG Sauer P365 is now the gold standard in small 9mm carry pistols. That ball that could have been easily fumbled in an increasingly crowded and competitive market? Yeah, SIG booted it out of the park. ![]() ![]() However, there were no compromises – the new P365 (so named because you can carry it concealed 365 days of the year) boasts excellent steel sights, a great trigger pull straight from SIG’s own P320 playbook, full controls with optional thumb safety, forward slide serrations, along with the “To Hell and Back” reliability and accuracy of the SIG Sauer offerings. In early 2018, amidst a huge industry media buzz, SIG Sauer announced the micro-compact 9mm semi-auto pistol that turned the concealed carry world on its ear: a gun smaller than the vaunted Glock 43 in almost all dimensions – even width – yet still packing 10+1 rounds in a miniscule steel-bodied magazine. By now, the SIG Sauer P365 should not be an unknown commodity to anyone in the firearms community. ![]()
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