This pistol is the first firearm purchased by our household so no ability to compare to others before except for borrowed Ruger 9mm use for Texas CHL licsense course. Good solid feel in the hand with ergonomics; the main reason my wife of 5ft 4in stature purchased this gun. The good ended there. The trigger was so hard to pull she was unable to fire the pistol until she used BOTH hands' trigger fingers at the same time. The trigger travel was so long her anticipation to fire was frustrating on top of the hard pull.

Our first ever trip to the range was, to say the least, frustrating. Unable to reasonably fire the pistol because of the hard trigger and long travel made her give up right off the bat! I am in my mid fifties and 6ft 1in and 242lbs and admit I had a tough time using it for the first new gun ever in my hands. I put the nessasary mussle into it to squeeze off the first clip ever in this pistol and found it did at least group well for me, a first time shooter (after CHL class). But then the wife tried her pistol again with both hands' trigger fingers and managed to get it to fire and it started jamming at a average of every four shots her next (and only clip) out of the 150 total rounds we shot today. Sometimes it jammed two and three times in a row, each time exactly the same; the top of the barrel would trap the spent shell horizonal in the ejection port with shell facing forward. We were using "Winchester 9mm Luger 115 GR. full metal jacket" shells for the first 50 rounds and then the "Remington UMC 9mm Luger 115 GR. Metal Case" for the last 100 rounds. Frustrations were high along with embarrasment in front of the other experienced shooters on the range. So, though our goal was to spend the day with the 550 rounds we brought to get used to the pistol, we stopped at 150 and left.

Our Smith and Wesson Sigma SW9VE is black polymer frame with Stainless Steel slide straight out of the box. The package came with a lazer and accessory mounting rail but we were unable to see the red dot in the daylight at aproximately 20ft. Standard 16 shoot clips (two). White dots on front and rear sights which I personally like alot. I was able to group at about 8in in twenty feet between jams.