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Hi everyone. My name is Matt, and I'm new to the forums. Two days ago I purchased a SW40VE from a chain store for $347 with 50 rounds of Winchester white box FMJ. I'm extremely happy with the gun so far, but I have not had a chance to get to the range yet. Ive shot a friends before, and I liked the grip and ergonomics of the gun the most (besides the price, obviously).
I have been doing lots of dry firing and my trigger finger is starting to get used to the feel. I knew about the long trigger pull and weight because I researched the gun extensively for the last few months along with the Glock 23 I was also considering. It honestly came down to feel. the Sigma felt more natural in my hand.
Although I agree with most of the threads in this forum that new owners and new shooters should not do this for many reasons, I went ahead and took out the pigtail spring. There was a SLIGHT improvement on the weight of the pull. It DID NOT improve the lenth of pull required to activate the striker. However, in my opinion, the best way to improve this would be to do some polishing of key parts, and running a few hundred rounds through the gun, along with dry firing. I was shocked that certain parts of the rear trigger assembly and sear apparatus did not come out of the box smoother. Perhaps it just looks this gritty from my initial dry firing.
Now, I did lots of research on the different approaches online about trigger mods for this gun. I also consider myself an extremely technically inclined person (I fix multi-million dollar biomedical research instruments for a living) and cannot own anything without taking it apart and seeing how it works and putting it back together again... It is also my gun, and I'll do what I damn well please with it. If i screw it up, I'll live with the consequences thankyouverymuch.
Bottom line, I like the gun, I may replace the other larger spring in the rear trigger assembly below the sear in the future. And I will -definitely- polish up some key areas of friction to make it smoother, along with shooting it, of course.
I agree with everyone who has said that if you don't know what you are doing, do not do any modding, just shoot and enjoy your gun.
Taking something apart is really easy. The tricky part is putting it back together correctly and having it function properly. If I wanted to, I could put the spring back and no one would ever know I took it apart.
I have been doing lots of dry firing and my trigger finger is starting to get used to the feel. I knew about the long trigger pull and weight because I researched the gun extensively for the last few months along with the Glock 23 I was also considering. It honestly came down to feel. the Sigma felt more natural in my hand.
Although I agree with most of the threads in this forum that new owners and new shooters should not do this for many reasons, I went ahead and took out the pigtail spring. There was a SLIGHT improvement on the weight of the pull. It DID NOT improve the lenth of pull required to activate the striker. However, in my opinion, the best way to improve this would be to do some polishing of key parts, and running a few hundred rounds through the gun, along with dry firing. I was shocked that certain parts of the rear trigger assembly and sear apparatus did not come out of the box smoother. Perhaps it just looks this gritty from my initial dry firing.
Now, I did lots of research on the different approaches online about trigger mods for this gun. I also consider myself an extremely technically inclined person (I fix multi-million dollar biomedical research instruments for a living) and cannot own anything without taking it apart and seeing how it works and putting it back together again... It is also my gun, and I'll do what I damn well please with it. If i screw it up, I'll live with the consequences thankyouverymuch.
Bottom line, I like the gun, I may replace the other larger spring in the rear trigger assembly below the sear in the future. And I will -definitely- polish up some key areas of friction to make it smoother, along with shooting it, of course.
I agree with everyone who has said that if you don't know what you are doing, do not do any modding, just shoot and enjoy your gun.
Taking something apart is really easy. The tricky part is putting it back together correctly and having it function properly. If I wanted to, I could put the spring back and no one would ever know I took it apart.
