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My out the door price on a subcompact Sig P250, after a pile of coupons, tritium sights and tax included, $280.05. If I'd foregone the tritium sights it would have been about $230 - but, tritium. Glowy. Shiny. When you wink at your pistol it winks back.
The gun was bone dry. Dry to the point of degreased, sterile metal. Horrid, and showed scuffing just from being cycled by tire kickers.
Before shooting it got a thorough oil wipe down and grease on the slide lugs but I missed the extractor pivot. It was stiff and failed to extract and eject the first round fired. Every round after that, it's a Sig. It worked.
The trigger is not too heavy and smooth with a long pull, a tad over one inch (good, considering the gun's intended purpose). It has almost no overtravel or takeup, just one even pull all the way back. There will be no point to having any trigger work done on this gun. I had several to cherry-pick from and got the pick of the litter.
I tried to get a reading on the trigger with my Lyman trigger gauge but it's not easy because the trigger rotates so much. Straight pull back put the gauge's booger hook rather high on the trigger and it registered nearly 10 pounds. Pulling down at an angle, trying to get it to pull from where your booger hook actually goes, it read about 6.5 pounds.
The point of impact is a little strange, but ok. The little hole in the target appears behind the dot on the front sight, not at the top of the blade.
My experience with the pistol and trigger is limited, but based on about 30 rounds I believe practical accuracy is manageable. Holstering something that feels like my P320, with my thumb behind the P250's hammer, is heavenly relief. Or would be, but no firm reliance on divine providence is required. I have mechanical assurance, eyes closed, in the dark, holstering without hesitation, the gun will not discharge no matter any unseen obstruction.
Testing of that feature was done with the cleared gun using a ballpoint pen in the trigger guard to simulate unfortunate circumstances, with the muzzle in a safe direction. If my thumb is hovering over the hammer no closer than the beavertail, the gun still telegraphs danger in time, should anything move the trigger. With my thumb flat against the back of the slide, the feedback is immediate and I don't think anything snagging the trigger could overpower my thumb.
The fire control unit is simpler than on the P320. There is no magazine interlock, for example, other than between the ears. Unlike the P320 you can field strip or reassemble the P250 with a loaded magazine in place, if you've taken leave of your senses, chambering a round in either operation. I don't see that's a problem for anyone with even minimal experience. One simply does not field strip a firearm that hasn't been cleared in the prior few seconds.
The downside - long trigger pull, long reset. I need some practice with it. It's easier to hit with a P320's trigger, and of course with a 1911 the only reason to aim carefully is to feel useful. 1911's hit the target all by themselves, I think.
The upside - light, street safe trigger, as safe as a revolver. Concealable. Twelve+1 in the gun, 17 in my spare mag. Fully semiautomatic (as seen on CNN!) dry fire drills, easy to practice target transition dry. Center of mass at 25 yards is not going to be a challenge. One inch groups at 25 probably will be.
This is not a gun I got to compete with. I got this to have a high capacity, California felony, street-safe carry gun that will go where I go, nobody offended, save those few benighted places where I have to defang.
Happy, happy, happy.
