Does Anyone Have Any Opinion About The S&w Sigma 9m.m. ?

You are going to find about a zillion opinions on this. Most of them unfavorable. It seems, as far as I have been able to tell from the postings that I have read, that the quality of these pistols is somewhat of a crap shoot. People chime in saying that their Sigma is the greatest thing since sliced bread, others say it is little more than dog doo doo. I steared away from it for that very reason. I know that it takes some time for bugs to work themselves out of a new design, but o'l Slick&Willy has had ample time to do just that!!!!! Re-engineering to correct faults in a design, or just add steps to improve quality costs big bucks. Bucks that S&W doesn't have right now, and is not likely to have in the forseeable future. I would steer clear of it!!!! S&W is now "owned" by a local AZ company now. It is my understanding that they plan to honor the "agreement". For that, they must die!!!!:mad:
 
First off let me squash the recoil issue. You must be some real wimps since my sister who is 5ft 95lbs can shoot a full 15rds of my sw40v without a murmur. Next I have a couple of friends I chat with on another board who like me are 1000+rds with 0 malfunctions in their sigma. I can shoot soda bottle CAPS at 10 yards all day with mine. Ask my dad, it is accurate. That being said, no I would not lump it in with sig or hk quality. It's a service pistol, period. The trigger is a bear, no question. The secret is squirt of lube in the sear block and it's smooth as butter. I don't want to make it sound like some magic gun cause it aint. You get what you pay for. I broke the old firing pin in mine twice dry firing it. I dry fire a LOT. Finally s&w installed one of the new ones and it's fine. If you have the cash for a fun gun I say buy it. You can't beat the price but you get what you pay for. I almost told a fib. I did have one stovepipe in 2000rds. It was the very first time I tried the "reverse weaver". Also the last time.
 
I went ahead and bought the new sw9ve sigma at the S&W factory gun show, after I posted this question . The factory has there reps in town once a year for a three day show, and has some pretty good prices on there feature guns. I was not familiar with this gun, so after I got home I looked it up on the internet. It showed it with a stainless steel slide, and mine has a blue slide. I called S&W, and they told me that they never made a sw9ve with a blue slide. I had them check the serial number. They then informed me that the gun was a factory over run of a special order for shipment out of the country. They wanted to know how I got the gun. I now not only have a Sigma, but I have a wierd one !
MR.G
 
Not melonite, just blue over steel. Also, at the same S&W show I purchased a new Sigma .380. Only because it was $200.00 new. I took it to the range that day, and found that the barrel was undersize. I had to push the slide closed to chamber a round, and it took two hands to pull it back after I fired it. No kidding ! The guy shooting next to me helped by pulling on the slide while I held the frame. Pretty tight fit. I went back to the show with that gun, and showed it to the S&W factory reps. They agreed with me that it was undersize when they could not get a round in the chamber.
MR.G
 
Have the kel-tec with a chrome slide. A great little gun. I am a sucker for a low priced gun. As far as I am concerned, no more new Smith & Wessons for me. The company is too far gone. First the agreement with clinton and then the quality. I still love the old ones though !
MR.G
 
I bought a couple Sigmas back in 1999 that are great gun, one is a 9mm and the other is in 40.
I like them, they both have about 5000 rounds through them with not much problem, the triggers are a little heavy but they are smooth, I polished them and dryfired them thousand of times. I liked the first two so much I was going to buy on in .357sig, but then the deal happened and that idea was flushed down the can.
I however will not ever buy another S&W product ever again. :mad:
 
My opinion is negative. Sigma has no advantages over much more
proven and beautifully designed Glock and stuff. It was an attempt to follow the trend, and it failed, considering the number of Sigmas sold in this country. It's not competative in its price range. May be it would be a relatively good seller if priced under $200...
 
I had a Sigma 380. Unlike the others on this forum, I never had a problem with the feeding or reliability. However, it was still a POS. TERRIBLE accuracy, awful recoil, abbysmal materials. I sold it for $150 and was positively gleeful.
 
Dear Mr. G:

I do own a Sigma series 9VE :cool: . I carry it on daily basis and would trust my life to it. In fact this weapon has saved my life 2 times when in the line. I would not trade it, I would not sell it. As a matter of fact I own several other ones (glock 30, Kimber 1911, SW 6906, Styer M) and still love to carry the Sigma. It feel very good on the hands and points very smooth and cool. I´ve shot 3 inch. groups at 25 yards in rapid fire. The trigger is a dog man :mad: that´s true. But the overall of the gun is OK. 2500 rounds and no malfunctions still. This gun is no more prone to fail than any other well tuned weapon. It is also very sensitive to "limp wrists" You will get a lot of bad opinions from SW (many of them because of political reasons) but this gun is fine (at leat mine). Once you overcome the trigger and correct any grip problems you may have it should not fail.

Don´t expect to be shooting 1 inch groups with that trigger. This is a combat pistol not a match one.

Hope this helps. :p
 
TheActor

Welcome to TFL! Why yes, I am a real wimp. Thanks for noticing.

The Stigma comes in several sizes (or, at least, it used to). The smaller ones (.380, 9mm subcompact) are made of ZAMAC. :barf: This is a zinc alloy with an expected service life of 3000 rounds, as I recall. I tried the trigger of the baby 9mm Sigma. There was a noticeable delay between fully retracting the trigger, and the "tink" that would have been a round firing.

I have only had two nightmares in which I was armed (if I have a gun in my dreams, it's usually not a nightmare!). Of those two nightmares, I can only identify the arm I had in one. It was a Sigma, and I was attempting to defend my life with a pistol that I had to hold on target while I waited for my round to go off!
 
I have a new unfired Sigma 40 that I bought when they first came out, I also bought 2 extra hi cap mags with a total of four hi caps( I think 16 rnds each). Thats a lot of fire power for what should be a decent combat pistol. I know how the gun shoots since I have shot another gun that is identical. My delima is what should I do with this particular gun at this point? I really do like the feel of the gun and wish it had a better reputation for trigger smootheness and reliability. Im not sure if it has a lifetime warranty and how S&W would back it up if I were to take it out and shoot it and have problems with it. Can the Sigma be improved by a good gunsmith? It sucks that its still new in box years later and not worth any more now (possibly less) than I paid for it. Sell or Keep?
 
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My first 9MM was a choice between the *&* Sigma and the Ruger P-95. God must have been with me that day, as I walked out with the Ruger P-95.
10000 rounds later the ruger still shoots and looks like a new gun.
The sigma 9MM I have shot has the same unreliability that has been posted above. A Sigma trigger as smooth as butter??????

Tony
 
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