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August 2001

.357 SIG Pistols: Three Winners, Two Maybes, and One ‘Must Buy’

We pitted three Glocks—the 31, 32, and 33 models—against three Sigarms products—the P229, the P239, and the 2340 Pro. One gun was so good we bought it for ourselves.

The Glock 31, left, and the Sigarms P239,
ûright, both tamed the powerful .357 SIG car-
ûtridge to our satisfaction.

The basic concept of the .357 SIG is to deliver the same stopping power of the feared and respected .357 Magnum revolver cartridge from a semi-automatic pistol. The .357 Magnum round, featuring a 125-grain bullet fired from a 4-inch duty revolver, is widely recognized to be a top-flight fight stopper. Unfortunately, the recoil and flash of this combination also has few equals. This recoil characteristic, in addition to the limited capacity of the revolver, has led to an evolution of the handgun in both police and civilian life. Just take a look at the action movies from the 1960s and 1970s. Nearly everyone, bad guy and cop alike, carried a…

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