Hey Everyone,
I have a Sig P365X (same grip module as the XL, but the non-XL barrel) that I use as my carry pistol.
I am fairly new to pistol shooting, only started a couple years ago. I've had some guidance from more experienced shooters, but no formal instruction yet - hope to alleviate that soon. Put roughly 1500 rounds downrange, plus some dryfire practice with a MantisX
I can shoot accurately if I shoot slow, but if I try to shoot at all fast my groups open up. I know I'm anticipating the recoil, so I'm working on that, but the other issue I've found during live fire practice is that I don't have a good grip. I have medium-small hands and my preference is to put my support hand index finger in front of the trigger guard, and my support thumb along the gun right underneath the slide. The problem with this is my thumb wants to occupy the same space as the takedown lever and slide release, which obviously won't work.
I've been shooting with my support hand rotated forward a bit to where my thumb sits along the bottom of the slide in front of the takedown lever - the side of my thumb sits in the back of the accessory rail groove, with my support index finger in front of the trigger guard. This works great for one shot...but the recoil pulls my thumb off the gun into free space and I then have to reset my grip for the next shot, which is slow and ultimately results in a sloppy loose grip that is inconsistent from round to round. There just isn't enough space under the slide for the support thumb to have good contact with the gun and keep it in place during recoil.
I finally gave up on that grip and have been experimenting to try to find an alternative. The most stable grip I've found is to wrap my support index finger under the trigger guard with the rest of my fingers, point my support thumb straight up to keep it clear of the slide release and takedown lever, and wrap my shooting hand (right hand) thumb over the top of my support thumb. I don't think this is a good grip - the gun is not as stable since I don't have support out front, but it's the only one I found where the recoil didn't move the pistol in my hand involuntarily each shot.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a better way to grip small pistols like the P365? Hoping there is a good video or pictures out there somewhere I can reference to build a proper grip - I usually see full size pistols in the instructional videos and that doesn't really help here.
I do have a Hogue grip sleeve I want to try at some point, and I'm tempted to try the Wilson Combat grip module, but I don't want to throw money at a problem that I'm guessing is probably due to my own inexperience rather than a problem with the fit of the gun to my hand.
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