KelTec's NEW P15 vs. the OLD PF9 (and, yeah, of course the SIG P365)

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KelTec Joins The Fun

The #Micro9 craze has been going great guns, since SIG Sauer introduced the P365. Well, not really. It took the other players a few years to catch up. Unfortunately, KelTec was early to the party and sat in a folding chair on the edge of the dance. Let me digress.

KelTec had the P11 for years. It sort of took Smith & Wesson mags that were from S&W  old metal DA/SA pistols, but it came with a 10-round "proprietary" mag based on the S&W mag. It was everything the SIG P365 came to be. Don't laugh!

Before we get into the nitty gritty, who are the players in the industry?

Micro 9s (order of intro)

KelTec P11 (1995-2019)

SIG P365 (2018-now)

Springfield Armory Hellcat (2019-now)

S&W  M&P Shield Plus (2021-now)

Ruger MAX-9 (2021-now)

KelTec P15 (2022-now)

And to celebrate the P11 that was ahead of its time - a Viking funeral.

The Nitty Gritty

How does the KelTec P15 stacks up to the gun it sort of pretty much replaced - the KelTec P11? And how does it compare to the lightest 9 - the KelTec PF9? How does it size up to the SIG P365 - the quintessential micro 9?

Well, hell that's inconclusive! Is the KelTec P15 a SIG P365 killer, or is it just a little bit too tall?

NEXT: KelTec P15:  Glock-19 Killer!