It sure is. Take 5 new Vp9s and 5 new Sig X series guns...and shoot them side by side. For 400 rounds each.
We did this. All 5 sigs needed repairs afterwards. Mostly new guide rods and springs. You know, 25 jams per 50 rounds type bullshit.
All none of the HKs jammed in any way or needed repairs.
I shoot a sig x5 as my main comp gun...And because of that I carry an X carry.
But no fucking way would I trust a sig P320 type pistol with less than 1k down the pipe.
You said academy- which LE academy was this, or is it a privately owned range? What's your role there? And I'll ask again, which LE agency is issuing as standard the HK vp pistol?
That sounds like a planned, very focused test, motivated by a specific event, which means there's almost certainly footage of it, if you care to point us to that video. Please list the date of the testing, and all serial numbers for the 10 pistols in this test. Thank you.
Knowing the barrel lockup on the p320 X series is much tighter than on regular p320 pistols and regular HK vp pistols, and knowing the regular HK vp are the competitor to the regular p320, why weren't regular p320s selected for 'the test' instead of X series? What specific new factory ammo was used, and was it 115gr, 124, 135, 147gr? Brass, alum, or steel case?
We know the regular Sig p320 pistols are widely issued as standard in many American LE agencies and all four branches of the U.S. military, plus the Coasties, and the vast majority of these p320s are not X-series, and we know that virtually no medium to large American agencies are issuing HK vp pistols, so it's fascinating that you somehow are regularly seeing such a large number of HK vp pistols to make a credible comparison to the p320... You'd have to be seeing at least one HK vp for every 1 or 2 regular Sig p320s for it to be more than an anecdotal observation.
Yet it's nearly impossible to find even a few small U.S. agencies whose standard issue pistol is the HK vp, which brings us back around to the fact that sales of HK vp pistols are so low compared to p320 sales that in order for your test claim to be credible- you'd have to have a local decent sized LE agency issuing as standard the HK vp.
Your rate of stoppage claims- FIFTY percent- for the Sig x-series p320 is so far outside anything I've ever read or heard before that surely your test results can be found at Glocktalk, Sigtalk, Defcarry, Sig forum, M&P forums, youtube. Please provide the link.
Even the haters who hold up the official Army testing of the Sig m17 mhs pistols as 'evidence', can't claim stoppage rates as bad as you claim! I have the entire report from the second DoD m9 trials in 82-83 (there was one cancelled pistols trial in '81), and I have the entire m17 report, and the Sig m17 was more reliable in testing than the Beretta xm9 was in its testing- based on MRBS and MRBF.
I owned one of the early Glocks that wasn't drop safe and had to go back to Glock for the famous six part upgrade, so the p320 drop issue wasn't a big deal to me, and it certainly isn't a factor in any claims about stoppages.
