A Review of the SIG P245 Pistol
I am a fan of SIG pistols. The first pistol I ever spent my hard-earned money on was a stainless SIG P226 in .357 Sig. Thousands of rounds later, it has been flawless and accurate and I still own it. If you had asked me three weeks ago to leave my house with and trust my life to one pistol, I would not have hesitated, it would have been my P239 in .40 S/W. The P239 has been in my bugout, SHTF bag [Flickr link to bag, contents] since I purchased the pistol three years ago. The P239 is compact and easy to conceal, always feeds, goes bang and extracts no matter what I feed it. And, with the right ammo (Double Tap 135gr JHP is my favorite and go-to) it is very, very accurate. Finally, like all Sig pistols, it is easy to disassemble, clean, lube and put back together. Of all the guns I own, I feel confident that I could take apart and reassemble any of my Sigs pistols blindfolded. I wish I could say that for my bull barrel Wilson and Nighthawk 1911s.
About six weeks ago I bought a LNIB SIG P245 - loosing yet another bout with fiscal restraint to low impulse control. I didn't wander into my local gun store intent on buying anything, certainly not a P245. I had done some research on the P245 and handled a used one once or twice, but at that time I was in mid-1911-buying-rapture mode and felt that the P245 wasn't greatly different enough from my P239 or my P220 to warrant owning one. In the store, the empty pistol felt a bit nose heavy, a perception reinforced by the shortness of the grip. I also found the grips themselves to be a bit thick for my hand with a fair amount of palm swell.
Mouse Guns, Hot Weather Concealed Carry and Tactical Underwear
The summers in Virginia are brutal. It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity. Making the task of concealing a handgun that much more difficult. Most summers I find myself putting away my usual carry guns, (Kahr PM40, Nighthawk Talon IV or SIG P239) in favor of smaller, more ‘pocketable’ pistols like my Seecamp .380 or Ruger LCP.
Wearing a pistol wrapped in the the most ‘comfortable’ inside the waistband holsters (I’m partial to Milt Sparks leather) is like having a sweaty cheese grater next to your flesh. Generally, I am comfortable with the “mousegun compromise,“ recognizing the old adage that the gun you have with you is better than the one you have sitting at home on the night stand. It sounds good and it’s slightly comforting until you see the six-foot four inch specimen walking down the street and imagining that individual advancing at you with malice on his mind.
Then I begin to think about what type of shot placement is going to be required - and how close I’m going to have to be with my mouse gun to make this guy wince.
The inside the waistband carry problem in the summer is two-fold: in order to be comfortable, some sort of garment is required between the cheese and the grater. But, wearing another layer is hotter, compounding the problem. I have tried wearing a cotton t-shirt under a very light hawaiian shirt. This ‘solves’ the cheese grater problem but introduces the sweating profusely problem.
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