If HQ ends up approving the EPS-Carry and not the Romeo-X, you have yourself a deal.
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An X Macro is my daily primary carry but I've been kind of preoccupied and wrapped up with J frame's lately and haven't shot the Macro, after finishing up with a snub earlier I drew the Macro a few times and ran a quick mag at 7-20 yds... completely refreshed my mind as to why it's my primary, Now I'm stuck thinking about a Tac ops again...
After carrying a macro every day since November, I switched over to a Glock in Alaska. I was surprised how much smaller the macro carries. Like, what is this printing thing?
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With warmer weather and light cotton button down shirt's being here, I figured I'd end up back to carrying an XL, after a few day's I was back to the Macro, for me it conceals just as well and maybe better than the XL because of the grip extends a bit further.
Looks like mine is a lemon. It doesn’t function with the agency training ammunition, a 115gr Winchester FMJ. Over 157 rounds I experienced 18 failures to extract. The extractor would pull the casing partially out of the chamber before the claw would slip off leaving a partially extracted casing on top of the top round in the mag instead of the stereotypical failure to extract where the case remains entirely in the chamber and the gun is attempting to feed the new round into it. My other two P365s have no problems with this ammunition. I also fired 49 rounds of Gold Dot and experienced no malfunctions with that. I wonder if there’s a tolerance stacking issue with the dimensions of this extractor and the dimensions of the rims on the cases the Winchester ammunition uses. Tomorrow I’ll try some other types of ammunition. I’ll update this thread with that info afterwards.
I also tried swapping parts with a known good XL. The new slide and FCG with the old barrel resulted in the same malfunctions. The old slide with this new barrel and FCG resulted in no malfunctions so I’m pretty sure the extractor is the issue. The malfunctions were consistent across two different magazines and occurred two handed, strong hand only and support hand only.
I also really dislike the extended slide stop. My grip has my support hand thumb high and the slide stop just hammers it during recoil. This happens a little with the standard slide stop but it’s on another level with the extended one on the LE SKU guns.
It seems to print less because the butt is more outward, more or less in line with the vertical profile line of my right side (blends with my spare tire) rather than a little more towards the center line with the XL. I carry in a JM 2.5 with one of the large original Junk Pillows @ 1:00-1:30 and a Master Mind Specialist belt and generally wear an LL Bean LW shirt this time of year. I know a longer grip concealing well sounds odd but its slim and works well for me.