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The SAR USA P8L is yet another 9x19mm high-capacity semi-automatic from well-known Turkish gun maker SAR. The 17+1 P8L is the larger brother of the corresponding 15+1 P8S, with their “L” and “S” trailing initials standing for large and small respectively. Or maybe long and short. P8L is a double-action/single-action (DA/SA) gun with excellent ergonomics, fit and finish.

The gun’s “ya gotta see this” feature are its four oval lightening ports on the slide’s front flanks and the corresponding paired long oval compensator ports on top. The side ovals serve not only as lightening ports but as the front grips. The combination can evoke all kinds of things, including something off a steampunk movie set. But with a nod back to simplicity, the slide’s rear serrations are the more standard diagonal types.

The P8L’s main dimensions ensconce its 4.6” barrel. The gun has a 1.4” maximum width, 5.5” overall height and 8.0” overall length. Weight is 37.9 ounces.

The gun comes in all steel black with black grips, stainless steel with black grips or stainless steel with white inlaid wooden grips. Either way, it’s fetching! The slide, barrel and frame are all forged alloy steel.

For safety, the gun has a manual safety (thumb safety) at back left. There’s also a firing pin block and a hammer block that should prevent the gun from discharging if and when it’s dropped. And that’s a good thing!

The gun has low profile sights. It’s a white three-dot kit. The rear sight has a ramped front-face and is fully adjustable for windage and elevation.

The gun’s controls are all on the left. There’s nothing ambidextrous about the gun, but for right-hand shooters, everything will be exactly where they expect.

The scimitar curved trigger sits in a trigger guard/trigger housing that’s not quite an oval. In fact, this is where SARS slips in what might be a unique design feature. The top of the trigger surround cuts up into the frame providing a little more room for gloved finger operations. The guard’s mostly front face is horizontally serrated for better tactile feel, and it ends in a tiny finger rest.

The grip has SAR’s signature style. It’s narrower behind the trigger and below the beavertail than for the rest of the grip. The grip’s trunk is thicker and palm-filling in a way that’s particularly optimized for bigger hands. The black rubber grip panels on the black and stainless steel models are textured. The wooden grips on the third model are beautifully inlaid with white panels and golden scrolls and golden outlines. In all three cases, the frontstrap and backstrap have vertical serrations. And then there’s a variant of the third model. It has a gold-plated trigger, hammer, magazine release, slide catch and safety.

The P8L comes with a pair of black 17-round steel magazines.

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