lilcobra2,
I think you will really enjoy your SD. And it makes it more fun to know how it works, which you learn from taking it apart, and the mod may make it work a bit better.
I can see working on a pistol to make it function better. And to learn about it. But, based on hind-sight, I wouldn't invest too much in extra stuff for a SD9VE/SD40VE since the great benefit of this gun is that it is a very good SD pistol at a superb price point -- great value for the money at $275-325.
I say this having invested a lot in a M&P that turned a $450 pistol into perhaps a $850 pistol. It worked fine, but it wasn't a Sig P226 or a HK P30... The value of the M&P, too, is that it gives a lot at the retail price point. Arguably, it is a far better value at $450 (with a $50 LE/MIL rebate taking it down to $400) than the cheapest P226, which is probably $750. But at the higher price point, with stuff added in, it still doesn't have the built-in accuracy, strength, reliability, and "break glass trigger" that comes with every P226 (although it has the "every trigger press is the same" of a striker-fired gun, which hampers the SA/DA P226 in certain competition). Does my logic that make sense? We can do that with SD's, too, getting them into the M&P price range quickly without achieving what a M&P has to offer.
I think you will really enjoy your SD. And it makes it more fun to know how it works, which you learn from taking it apart, and the mod may make it work a bit better.
I can see working on a pistol to make it function better. And to learn about it. But, based on hind-sight, I wouldn't invest too much in extra stuff for a SD9VE/SD40VE since the great benefit of this gun is that it is a very good SD pistol at a superb price point -- great value for the money at $275-325.
I say this having invested a lot in a M&P that turned a $450 pistol into perhaps a $850 pistol. It worked fine, but it wasn't a Sig P226 or a HK P30... The value of the M&P, too, is that it gives a lot at the retail price point. Arguably, it is a far better value at $450 (with a $50 LE/MIL rebate taking it down to $400) than the cheapest P226, which is probably $750. But at the higher price point, with stuff added in, it still doesn't have the built-in accuracy, strength, reliability, and "break glass trigger" that comes with every P226 (although it has the "every trigger press is the same" of a striker-fired gun, which hampers the SA/DA P226 in certain competition). Does my logic that make sense? We can do that with SD's, too, getting them into the M&P price range quickly without achieving what a M&P has to offer.
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