Damn... bunch of haters who haven't even shot it!
I own one now, my buddy sold me his. Its a great gun. I own 3 sigmas, and 5 M&P's right now and the SD is 3/4 of the way to the M&P for a hell of a price.
It has a trigger pull ALMOST like the M&P and its WORLDS better than the Sigma. The finish is nice, the tritium front siite is a nice upgrade. The whole gun is FAR better than the sigma.
Almost 2k rounds down it now and not 1 single hiccup. It points great and feels like a sigma in grip which is actually VERY nice....
All you guys hating on it before you have either shot it need to have your head examined. How can people come to a conclusion from a picture and an assumption? Unreal....
I have shot one, and the example I used was so far removed from what you describe as to make me doubt litereally everything you just wrote.
Not saying you are lieing at all, but if someone came into the shop and said that, I would think they were.
The SD is cheap, the trigger is terrible with a SPROING type reset, absolutly terrible.
To say it is 3/4s of a M&P, either you have a FANTASTIC SD, which I dont doubt is possible <the 3 in the shop I dry fired were all the same, and all terrible tho>, or a absolutly horrible M&P.
I do not want anyone to walk away from this thread and go out and buy a SD without at least trying to talk them out of it, the trigger on the 3 that I handled and the one that I shot compared most closely with a Kel-Tec than anything else.
Or, a Sigma.
In my opinion, the SD is a huge, huge disaster. For an insignificant amount of additional money, you can have a M&P.
Which has widespread acceptance in the competition circuit.
THe SD, never will. I can garuntee you dat.
DO NOT. I repeat do not buy a SD. You will be dissapointed. Kingofthehill obviously disagrees with me, but I have not shot a gun in a long time that I absolutly hated, and the SD fits that bill.
Edit: I will say, pre-trigger job the M&P trigger is pretty horrible out of the box, but it can clean up so easily that its a non-issue. Its been a while since I shot a box stock M&P without Apex parts or a pro-series, so King might just be right about the trigger being almost as good as a M&P. If the M&P you are referring to is one without trigger work / replacement parts. thought I should clarify that.