New SD9VE changes...

[GKC]

I bought a new SD9VE yesterday, since they were on sale (that's a good reason to buy another gun, right?) and the frame seems to be a lot "grippier" than my older model. The stippling and checkering seems to be more pronounced. Also, while I don't have a trigger pull gauge, the trigger pull "feels" lighter than my older model. The clerk told me it was a 2016 model, but there was no test fired shell envelope in the box, so I don't know when it was test fired. I'm going to call S&W to see what they can tell me by the S/N.

Otherwise, it seems like the same wonderful gun.

 

[mpreusse13]

Just curious....how old is your other one

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[Disabled1]

I bought my SD9VE from my son in November 2015. The manufacture date was October 2015. He had only fired less than 100 rounds through it. The trigger on mine seems to be smoother than the trigger on my friends SD9VE, in which he bought in 2013. I didn't think much about it until I read this post.
I will see him tomorrow and will compare the frame grip on his to mine.

 

[GKC]

Just curious....how old is your other one

It was made in 2014.

Edited to add: I've owned three others (two SD9VEs and one SD40VE) that were made between 2014 and now, but they didn't seem as different in feel of the grip as this one. The trigger pull feels better, as I recall them (I sold them to buy something else.)

 

[mpreusse13]

Ok, mine is a 2016 also and after going to the range the first time I couldn't figure out what the fuss was about with the heavy trigger pull people complain about. My wife is 110 lbs and not once did she say anything about it being difficult to pull and she wasn't pulling the gun off target with the trigger.

So maybe they fixed some of the trigger pull issues on the new guns

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[GKC]

Ok, mine is a 2016 also and after going to the range the first time I couldn't figure out what the fuss was about with the heavy trigger pull people complain about. My wife is 110 lbs and not once did she say anything about it being difficult to pull and she wasn't pulling the gun off target with the trigger.

So maybe they fixed some of the trigger pull issues on the new guns

The only gun my wife could easily rack the slide on was a LC9. When I brought this new SD9VE in the house, she tried it out and could rack the slide. Not as easily, but she could do it, and she didn't mind the trigger. So, something is different.
She still thinks it's too big for her and prefers the LC9, and now that they have a striker fired model she might want one of those. She is also considering a SIG P938...one of her brothers has one, and she likes it...but she hasn't decided yet.

 

[901-Memphis]

If she's shopping for something like the LC9/938 then what about the shield?

 

[GKC]

If she's shopping for something like the LC9/938 then what about the shield?

The LC9 she had was one of the exclusive models (I think it was a Davidson's exclusive, or one of the other ones) that had a stainless, engraved slide. She also likes the P938 because it resembles a 1911, but is smaller and lighter (she finds even a 3" 1911 too heavy) and she can put grips she likes on it. (Yeah, she likes a bit of "flash" in her guns...besides what comes out of the muzzle.) When I had a Shield, she liked it OK, but she's just not into all black guns.

 

[RolandD]

My wife actually got mad at how much easier my SD9VE was to rack compared to her CT380.

 

[turbo6]

The SD9VE is one of the easier guns I've found to rack.