I took the gun out to the newly appointed Sheriff’s range and met with retiree Bob Bryant and instructor Cpl Rob Child. Putting the SD9 through its paces, the author found it to be extremely accurate and comfortable. The articulating lower portion of the trigger acts as a “trigger safety.” The author found the trigger pull to be a bit gritty, but manageable. The S&W SD9, the middle gun between Sigma and M&P, put nine of ten in the black, with a single round just barely out at 8 o’clock. It’s a great test of gun, trigger control and how “hard” your pistol’s zero is. As for scoring, if you make 90% you’re doing well. The objective is to keep all hits in the black. The drill is to put ten hits in the black circle from ten yards in ten seconds. Set your timer to random start with a 10-second par and start from low ready (not High Ready) or from Position Sul. I remember that the original M&P magazines were shiny and slick, but more recent iterations were matte finished and had a better “grip.”Īfter a break, I finished up with the Hackathorn course, “The Test.” So named by Larry Vickers due to its unforgiving nature, it requires an NRA B-8 25-yard Timed and Rapid Fire Bull’s-Eye. While doing magazine drills, I found that the shiny magazines were slick and I fumbled several times. Despite my condition, I was able to get settled in with the trigger and found the SD9 extremely comfortable to run. I posted a paper target formed along the lines of the IDPA target and did some handling drills. It was consistent load-to-load, so I concluded it was the sights. I began to notice that the bulk of groups fired tended to the left side of the target. I believe that the SD9 would (and did) shoot a lot better from a seated rest, perhaps shot left-handed. That’s as far as you need to go for regular maintenance. Pull the back end of the recoil spring forward and lift up, removing it from the slide. Let the slide forward easily and remove it from the front of the frame.
Pull down on both sides of the takedown lever-the sawtooth steel protruding from both sides of the frame.
The striker will be released and come to rest.Ĭontrol the slide with one hand pulling back around ¼ of an inch. Then, with the muzzle covering a safe direction press the trigger. Check the chamber again, by sight and feel. Let the slide forward, point it in a safe direction. Rack the slide briskly and lock the slide open. The slide stop is on the left side only and is fairly large, reminiscent of the Sigma unit. Note the stippled finger positioning recess above the front of the triggerguard, as well as the integrated accessory rail on the frame. The magazine tubes are metal and the magazines supplied were bright and shiny, as if they’d been nickel-plated. While sized similarly to the Glock 19, a “compact” pistol, the SD9 magazine holds 16 rounds. The focus belongs over the muzzle, which is the most important marker in the close range environment of the diminished light gunfight. The eye tends to be drawn to the closest bright object-an observation made by fellow writer Dave Spaulding. A night sight only up front is a good idea in my judgment. The front sight has a white-outline around the tritium insert.
The rear sight also has a pair of painted white dots visible to the shooter. The rear sight is made with a flat on the front to allow slide manipulation using the rear sight against gear or a table. The slide is nicely sculpted with grasping grooves fore and aft. As for the pad on the non-trigger finger side, if you shoot with a thumbs-forward grip the support side thumb rests on that pad. These are handy to show new shooters where that pesky trigger finger needs to go when the sights aren’t on a target that one can lawfully shoot. There are roughened pads in front of the slots for the takedown lever on both sides of the frame. The dustcover rail is of the “universal” format as opposed to the proprietary nature of the Sigma’s rail. The frame shares a similarity to the S&W Sigma pistol in terms of grip angle, though it feels slimmer. The SD pistols (SD9 and SD40) were obviously well thought-out. I don’t know what it was, but there was something about Smith & Wesson’s SD9 (Self Defense 9mm) pistol that appealed to me from the first time I saw photos of it.
#Smith and wesson 9mm sd9 series
The SD9 from Smith & Wesson combines appealing elements of the company’s Sigma and M&P series in an extremely affordable package.
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