Sorry for responding on this one so late - I hope I caught you in time to save you from buying a piece of crap. I own the older Sigma SW40F, and it works quite well, it is reasonably accurate, and once in a while fails to feed the last round in the mag. I later bought an SW40VE without knowing what I was getting in to. As it started out, I had about a 50% misfire rate - it looked like the primer was getting hit way off center. I sent it back to Smith, and it seemed to work a little bit better in that department, even though the primer dent was still somewhat off center, but not as far as before. But the main problem now was that upon chambering a round, the slide would not go into battery - It looked like the case rim was getting on the wrong side of the extractor, so I sent it back once more and got a whole new slide/barrel assembly. Now It it would go into battery, but only after slamming it very hard with the heel of my hand - but that was will Federal ammo. With Cor-bon, I had the same problem as before. I ended up selling the gun for $240 and warned that it might not work with all brands of ammo. One other thing to note, even when the gun did fire, I couldn't hit the side of a barn - it could be due to the huge amount of slop between the slide/barrel assembly and the frame, or it could be the fact that there was .015" diametral slop in the chamber, so the round could sit in there crooked. In any case, I think that the gun was a piece of crap, and no where near built as well as its predecessor, the SW40F.
