I have to agree. it was smooth but HEAVY! The one I traded for constantly bit me as well, due to hand size. I had a gunsmith carry the beveling on the bottom of the slide all the way to the back and remove the serrations on the trigger. That ended the biting, but I ultimately traded it off to someone else.As a typical young single man I generally pissed away my meager earnings on beer, bad women, gambling, and the rest I just wasted...So it was awhile before I finally accrued enough funds to get the Holy Grail of "cool" guns. The legendary Walther PPK! Geez what a cold shower that was. I ended up owning two because I had to make sure my first assessment wasn't an anomaly. It wasn't, I ended up trading them off. The main issue is the double action trigger pull, both of mine felt like about 25 lbs, give or take 5 lbs.