so is S&W in cahoots with APEX? there is no reason in the world S&W cannot make their trigger parts on par with Apex.
Reminds me of how Ibanez guitars ship with ****** dimarzio pickups .
Everyone swaps out the stock pickups.
I find this extremely annoying. The trigger on my XDM 3.8C destroys the triggers on my shield and my 9C and those have both been reworked.
I seriously doubt S&W hires completely incompetent employees.
I can only come to the conclusion that these shabby triggers are produced like this on purpose.
A good friend of mine just picked up an XDS 3.3 in 9. right out of the box it shot better than my shield does (with over a 1,000 rounds through it and a reworked trigger).