

Much like Glock’s boom-button perfection, the P250’s trigger exhibited virtually no stacking. Even with the largest of the three available grip frames fitted to my example, the small hands I’ve been cursed with clutched this SIG more positively and more confidently than any high-cap grip I’ve ever held.Ĭomplimenting this tactile comfort was a magnificent double-action-only trigger. On the range, the P250 wins you over with double taps that warrant double takes back at the lady who looked so plain just a few minutes ago. Personality, however, goes a long way (with guns as well as soccer moms). Just a nice-looking one with a pretty smile and a pleasant personality. But compared to other modern semi-autos, this SIG stands out about as much as a soccer mom in a Target check-out. Yeah, the grip frame’s integral accessory rail and curved/textured front trigger guard both add a modicum of definition to an otherwise banal visage. The P250 typifies “modern autopistol” in a burst of genericism that not even Glock’s brickish silhouette can match. No leaps are necessary when it comes to the gun’s physical description. And so I leapt at the chance to sample the SIG several weeks back when a friend let me shoot his 9mm version. Add the longer slide, and you can leap up to the full-sized model, as well. Along with the grip frame, only the magazine and barrel must be changed to jump from compact to sub-compact. SIG renders the firing mechanism in four popular calibers (9mm. Each grip frame is specially-sized for different shooter’s hands, and includes a cut-out “window” through which the firing mechanism’s serial number can be viewed.Ĭonnoisseurs of combinatorics will be interested to learn that the full-sized model and the compact model each have three available grip frames, while the sub-compact gun makes do with only two. The latest iteration: the SIG SAUER P250 semiautomatic pistol.Īvailable as a full-size, compact, or sub-compact model, the P250 is basically a firing mechanism (“Fire Control Assembly,” SIG calls it) which quickly and easily drops into one of several available polymer grip frames. But modularity within the same gun – taken to the extent where the entire grip frame is rendered nothing more than accessory itself – is a fairly new concept. In the strictest sense of the word, it refers to the nineteenth century innovation where parts created for one gun could be used in another (a helpful thing on the battlefield). The idea of modularity in firearms certainly isn’t new.
