Pistolay
Contributing Member
A couple of years ago I got rid of my Glock 42 because my arthritic wrists had deteriorated to the point where I was limpwristing the gun no matter how tightly I gripped it. My last range trip, the RSO was having no problems at all with it, but I was getting almost a 100% failure rate. He suggested gripping my wrist with my support hand, and I did, and the gun became 100% (and I mean 100%) reliable. However, I don't want to have different grips for different guns, and the wrist brace grip is almost universally frowned upon, so I got rid of the gun.
Fast forward, I've now owned 3 P365-380s, and all of them have been 100% reliable with FMJ (I carry SIG Elite FMJ in them) but choke frequently feeding truncated cone JHPs like Hornady XTP and SIG V-Crown. On my way out of the SIG Experience Center range today after wasting a box of XTPs, I got into a discussion about it with one of the range guys, and based on the symptoms I described (he didn't see me shoot), he thought it sounded like I was breaking my wrist. I explained my history with the G42 and the wrist brace grip and he said "you have to do what works for you."
Anyway, I'm going back in the next couple of days to see if the wrist brace grip makes a difference, and if it does, I'm going to have to think seriously about switching to it. But I'm wondering, why is that grip so despised. It worked great with my G42.