Recent content by BrokenArrows

Found some test results for the 129 and 158 +P Nyclad through heavy cloth from the 2003 issue of Handguns. Fired from 2 inch bbl: 158 +P bare gel 18.3/.39 cloth 19.6/.36 129 +P bare 9/.71 cloth 9.5/.69

S&W and Glock were both awarded pistol contracts worth up to $40 million each over the next 10 yrs. Any federal agency (not just ATF) can purchase from either over the next 10 yrs. Will be intersting to see which ones which feds go for the most? S&W...

S&W and Glock were both awarded contracts worth up to $40 million over 10 yrs. S&W https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=e121e835387839577bc2b57c2897e987 Glock https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=bd51b091482215c94c1c9c89b799f26f The...

So the SD is "Gen4" Sigma? ;) There is enough borrowed/new about this pistol to warrant a new name IMO. Like the FN FNP v FNX. It's not just the same dog w a new haircut, it's a new breed? Like Siberians and Malamutes; both "huskies", but not the same dog... Whatever, I like 'em. Have put a...

At the local gun stores the SD is about $50 more than the Sigma, about $80 less than the Glock 19/23, and $120 less than the M&P9/40. Pretty much the same steel and plastic go in all of them, and all of them are pretty much made the same way; should cost about the same to make all of them too...

I've been shooting the SD9/40 for a few weeks. I like 'em! Ran some drills w the usual suspects (M&P, P229DAK, P2000LEM, G19/23, XD) and I like the SDs the best of the bunch! It runs better than the HK P30 I had last year; ya never know? I can understand why S&W doesn't want to call it a...