#Best compact 9mm 2018 full size#

Chunky double-stack SIG grips usually feel like a finely polished 2×4 in my hands, but the P250 feels like it was made to fit me. The P250 happily failed to conform to the SIG SAUER handling deficiencies I’ve become used to over the last 20+ years. P250s are a bargain, but their magazines are scandalously expensive. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it seems a shame that it can’t share magazines with other SIG pistols. The P250 looks like other SIGs but it operates and handles so differently that it defies comparison to them. With a street price below $400 for the P250 itself and about $600 for the ‘2SUM’ combo pack, the P250 may seem like the Camry V6 to the P229’s Lexus ES 350: almost all the performance for a fraction of the money. I like the product (a lot as you’ll see below) but I still can’t stand the name ‘2SUM.’ĭespite a certain family resemblance, the P250 has no parts commonality with any other SIG SAUER guns.

SIG earns at least an honorable mention for Most Awkwardly Product Name Of the Year for calling this combination kit a ‘2SUM.’ It does, however, include everything pictured above: two frames, two barrels, two slides and two magazines with a single fire control module to be shared between them. These three frame and slide setups correspond fairly closely to the dimensions of the ‘Baby’ Glock 26, the compact G19, and the service-pistol G17.

#Best compact 9mm 2018 full size#

Barrels and slides vary by caliber, and frames are offered in subcompact, compact, and full size configurations. The P250 is a whole family of semiautomatic pistols in four calibers, all of which share the same interchangeable fire control module containing the trigger, hammer, ejector and slide release. Well, except for reliability and that bore height thing. The P250 turns most of these stereotypes upside-down. Whether I had a 220, 226 or 229 pointed downrange, I always knew what to expect from a SIG: expensive, Swiss quality all-metal pistols with absolutely unfailing reliability, bulky grips, very high bore axes and long, stacking DA trigger pulls. I’ve never owned a SIG SAUER pistol, but I’ve shot a crate of them over the last few decades.