I've had 4 counting the one I had to send back to a gunsmith who butchered it in converting it to a match gun.
All were standard guns (only way offered at the time).
2 were chrome-moly, 2 stainless steel. Chro-mo's were built from Gunsmith "kits".
Best and only "Great" one was built by Bobby Jones of Jackson, Ms. (Chro-mo with Kart barrel). However it started losing accuracy after about 7,500rds, and never came back to "New" after several "tune-ups".
For factory guns, they are "Average" for the current crop of "clones" coming out of the various manufacturers.
My latest one was one of the discontinued "fixed" sighted models, I aquired by sake of winning it in S.C. "Governers 20" league last year.
I originally planned on selling it "NIB", but was pursuaded by Dave Williams of S.A. custom shop to give it a try for accuracy, as he alluded that the "Loaded" versions were more accurate: ie; less than 2"@25yds.
Couldn't prove it by me!
It would not shoot with the previous S.S. gun I had "butchered" in 1995 before it was sent off. The loaded version was only reliable with two magazines of 9 that I had -(2 Pachmyer,3 Colt, 4 metal-form). The older metal-form mags. previously used in other custom guns just would not always lock slide no matter what I did to them old followers/springs?). They would work three times, and then not the next. MIM slide stop??
Best accuracy was about 3.0" at 25yds. (that with listed load below).
It too has found a new home. I needed to fund a S&W PPC-9 6" thats due any time now.
If you're just going to plink, or such, they're "OK", but for serious competiton, you'll need something a lot better. Either perhaps one of the STI "Trojans", Ed Brown's, Baer's, Briley's or such, or a Custom Gun -(Alan Tanaka, S.A. custom shop, ect).
FWIW, I had a Marksman class shooter shooting next to me at match this past Sat/Sunday with a new S.A. w/ adj. site. He was having FTF, FTE -w/stove pipes,double feeds, with Fed. 124 H.S. (non- +P). He switched to CCI 124 Gold Dots, and after shooting a couple of stages, the failures ceased. Could not tell anything about accuracy from his shooting. (too many "0's" on B-27 to blame it just on the gun).
S&W's "9's" took all the Money........... again.
(My newest, a Super-9 is giving 1.0-1.2" 6-shot groups at 25yds from sand bags with 115gr Zero JHP's or Rem. 115 JHP's in Fed. Nk brass, over 5.5gr of WSF@ 1.10"oal., but is not quite up to my S&W P-C guns.)
Your luck may be better than mine, though.