S&W SD40

[MikeO]

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Category4_750001_750051_759152_-1_759151_759151_image

Looks like a hybrid M&P/Sigma SW40VE w more new or M&P parts than Sigma parts; don't have any parts list to compare to be sure. Slide, trigger, and sear look new/M&P. Sights are M&P (front w tritium). Mag body looks like a Sigma w different follower and base plate. Frame looks like a Sigma but w a standard rail. Surefire X200 fit like a glove, easy on/off, worked fine w it on. Checking w several instructors and ranges who do Q for CCW here, Sigmas have been working just fine for yrs now, as has the M&P.

I've been shooting an SD40 for a few days and I like it. No problems at all so far w a few hundred rounds of Win 180 USA FMJ and DPX1 JHP ammo through it. The SDT (self defense trigger) has been no problem at all for me. Feels like a heavier M&P, not a lighter Sigma. 4 in bbl, 14 mag, 7x5.5, 22.7 oz, fit in an M&P holster. Local retail is about $180 less than M&P, about $50-80 less than Glock, XD, SR9, $50 more than the Sigma. As far as looks and feel, I like it better than the others.

[ske1eter]

Cool! Glad it's working out well for you.

[MikeO]

Ran some drills w the SD40, M&P40, XD40, G23, HK P2000LEM, SIG P229DAK. Actually liked the SD40 the best of the bunch!?

Am I saying it's as good as the others? No. I am saying it's as good for me. 

[PegLeg45]

Ran some drills w the SD40, M&P40, XD40, G23, HK P2000LEM, SIG P229DAK. Actually liked the SD40 the best of the bunch!?

Am I saying it's as good as the others? No. I am saying it's as good for me. 

And that's the really important part ain't it?    

[twyacht]

Thanks for the report MikeO, as a full size M+P .40 owner for some time now, and other S&W pistols, It's good to see a continuation of a good thing.

I remember when the first Sigma's came out, they were not a Glock, and for right handers only, but it was the "plastic fantastic push" when Glock sales started rocketing.

The 4006, 411 line were extremely popular, and very reliable. Now they have more or less gone to the M+P, and it seems the new SD40, will be the extension/merger of the Sigma evolution.

Good to know, at that price,.... Hmmmm

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