There is value in the recoil mitigation as discussed, but you also don’t have to worry buying a threaded barrel and bolting on an aftermarket compensator which you’ll want to check tightness on every so often. For the price, you are getting an integral comp, stippled grip, and more user-friendly optics mounting system. Companies like Mantis X have created accessory rail adapters to compensate for this, but they add more bulk along with their utility.Įach shooter will need to identify whether the juice is worth the squeeze for this gun. While Sig has created an impressive package with the P365XL and Spectre Comp, their proprietary accessory rail somewhat limits its customization. This is a tough category for a gun already heavily customized. The Sig 3-dot sights were easy to pick up. I put together some 3-shot groups from seven yards with the Spectre Comp and they averaged around 1.5 inches. The mag release is a little subdued, but that’s to be expected with a gun designed for concealed carry. I really like the grip and frame on the P365XL though I often struggle to use micro compacts with my big hands. We shot several hundred rounds through both the P365XL and the Spectre Comp with zero failures.
The gun also includes a barrel and trigger shoe coated with gold titanium nitride that does not affect performance from what I can tell. Now, the Spectre Comp has an independent red dot mounting plate that is separate from the rear sight. If you used Sig’s Romeo Zero red dot, it included a rear sight fixture. In the original P365XL, users had to remove the rear sight in order to mount an optic.
In addition, Sig included a pretty big upgrade to the optics mounting system with the Spectre Comp. The grip texture, slide serrations, and integrated compensator set this gun apart from other models. When you press the trigger with your sight picture established, the sights pop back onto your picture quicker and allow you to engage again quickly. You can still outrun it, but you really have to try to shoot fast in order to do it. The bottom line is, it aims and shoots essentially the same, but the follow-up shots can happen quicker because recoil is less violent. The extra traction you get with the grip stippling is significant and that helps tame muzzle flip quite a bit, but when you combine that with the compensator, you get a little magic based in physics. The triggers feel the same to me and tested at around 4.5 pounds on my Lyman Digital gauge with a few millimeters of travel before a clean break reset. The differences in performance are subtle. How Does the P365XL Spectre Comp Shoot? Boom! Other than these two differences, the guns feel largely the same. The slide serrations, front and rear, are broader and angled a bit differently. It offers significantly more grab than the base P365XL. However, by comparison with the standard P365XL model, the grip texture on the Spectre Comp is aggressive.
The shape of the grip, the frame, even the weight were very similar. Many things about the two guns felt largely the same. The Spectre Comp is for those who want a compensated, concealable pistol with a 12-round capacity, and they aren’t afraid to spend north of $1,000 to get it. The Spectre, and Spectre Comp - products of Sig’s Custom Works division - came after. The P365XL soon followed and the increased grip size allowed 12-round magazines to fit flush.
Knowing they had a winner, Sig began offering expanded variants of the gun. This counterpunch was significant because the P365 was comparable in size, but had up to double the capacity with an extended magazine (12+1). Not to be outdone, Sig answered with the P365 in January 2018. When recent micro compact wars touched off a few years ago, Glock had a good jump on the market with their G42 and G43 single-stack guns.