Comments on S&W SD40 VE

Mine was terrible. I had over a 50% (103 out of 200) failure to feed ratio. I handled one that still had heavy tool marks on the slide and bought one anyway. Will not buy one again. I have alot of 3rd gen Smiths that are flawless and a Shield9 that has been flawless but the SD40VE was my worst experience with a gun to date. I was lucky enough to have a stand up LGS.
 
Willmc33 you know the more I thought about it with that many malfunctions 103 out of 200 could you have mixed 9mm in with 40S&W. I have seen this on the range many times, very common problem considering there is only one millimeter difference. Would they have been any chance you had a box of 9mm in there by accident. I had to separate the ammo to different tables the issue got that bad. It's an easy mistake to make. This will cause the exact type of problems you had. No offense to you it's just a thought. Some guy did this on you tube and talks about it.
 
Negative. It was an unopened 100 round pack of 180 grain Federal Champion and 2 50 round boxes of 165 grain Winchester White Box.
 
SD 40 VE

sent my sd 40 back on January 28th and as of today Feb 20th they still have not looked at it, rep said they are 4-6 weeks out on repairs. How can there be that many returns? Obviously Smith is going in the wrong direction with quality. My SD 40 was shooting 10 inches low at 20 feet, no it wasn't me I had other try it. The brass had a huge bulge almost to the point of cartridge separation and the trigger retaining pin would not stay in. I used 4 different brands of ammo the results were the same. This gun sucks and when I finally get it back i am not keeping it let alone buying anything smith again. Spend the extra 100 bucks ang go with something else.
 
buddah4snow The sdseries is a solid handgun with way less problems than the more costly M&P line. Only down time for some is trigger pull weight and with a low cost APEX trigger spring kit its much improved. Can't do better for 300dollars. Oh for those trigger whinners BUY a sig with a da trigger. Triggers are no better.


william if you pay attention to failure to fire treads the two brands that are all most 100% behind the problem are wwb and federal champion. Both are bottom grade ammo. Allways have atleast one premuim grade of ammo to try befor assuming it the handgun. We all know assumming does to us all.
 
kahrguy said:
buddah4snow The sdseries is a solid handgun with way less problems than the more costly M&P line. Only down time for some is trigger pull weight and with a low cost APEX trigger spring kit its much improved. Can't do better for 300dollars. Oh for those trigger whinners BUY a sig with a da trigger. Triggers are no better.


william if you pay attention to failure to fire treads the two brands that are all most 100% behind the problem are wwb and federal champion. Both are bottom grade ammo. Allways have atleast one premuim grade of ammo to try befor assuming it the handgun. We all know assumming does to us all.
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Wait, the SD series does not have "less problems" than the M&P.

Don't get me wrong, OP. the SD-series are solid entry level guns, but they're not at the level of the M&P/Glock/Sig/Beretta. They aren't service-quality.
 
My buddy has one. Decent, very reliable gun. I shot it very well and found it very accurate.

Terrible trigger though, long, gritty and sponge like. If you can deal with the trigger, it is a decent gun.
 
I've not dealt with the SD series yet. I have an SW9VE... I've heard the SD trigger is a bit better out of the box but still not great. I put the Apex springs in mine- they helped, but the trigger pull is still pretty poor. Crisp and consistent, yes. It's also still very heavy and difficult to handle easily.

As for the sights, I don't know if anybody makes adjustable sights for the things... I put night sights on mine and I probably wouldn't recommend that somebody do that. It just didn't really do much for the gun.

It's a decent and reliable firearm, it's even reasonably accurate. But it is also inferior to the guns that don't cost all that much more.
 
Actually it was 100% gun related. The ammo was fine. The slide was machined uneven and it was causing the malfunctions.
 
^Yes, you can feel the unhappiness through his sell post.

two brands that are all most 100% behind the problem are wwb and federal champion. Both are bottom grade ammo. Allways have atleast one premuim grade of ammo to try befor assuming it the handgun. We all know assumming does to us all.
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I have to respectfully disagree. Yes they are range ammo, but most quality (and even some not-so-quality) should have ZERO problem with range ammo. I can only imagine a gun that only shoots premium ammo. Yikes.
 
Mr_Jumper said:
^Yes, you can feel the unhappiness through his sell post.



I have to respectfully disagree. Yes they are range ammo, but most quality (and even some not-so-quality) should have ZERO problem with range ammo. I can only imagine a gun that only shoots premium ammo. Yikes.
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I agree with this. Of the 4,000+ my Beretta PX4 has put down range over the past 4.5 years, I'd say at least half has been Federal Champion and at least a quarter Winchester White Box. Never a problem. Ditto the 1,500 or so my LCP has fired.

While I don't doubt the occasional quality control slip, as they are budget ammo, if a gun can't eat them I generally think the gun is crap. If my $300 LCP and $450 PX4 can eat them, other guns ought to be able to.

Heck, to go even further with it, I shot an absolutely filthy SR22 at a rental range. 400 rounds of the most sketchy, bargain basement .22LR I have ever seen. Zero issues.

An occasional bad load from range ammo? Sure. Consistent issues? It's the gun. A good gun can be fed cheap ammo.
 
Great gun, good feel, nice weight, high capacity, awesomely accurate, high capacity but hard trigger. You can adjust to it very well though and best warranty in the business.
 
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