Do you know what the sight picture is suppose to look like ?? how are you holding the pistol ?? have you had any training ?? have others shot the pistols in question ..

Something sounds fishy when you buy a gun that cheap that the person you bought it from saying he had problems with accuracy but yet shoot 6000 to 8000 rounds through it ..

and if the gun does have that many rounds through it .. it needs more service then just a new barrel .. all the springs should be replaced and a complete tear down and cleaning needs to be done ..

Have a feeling all of the story is not being told .. probably by the person that you bought from ..

here's a story where a S&W MP pistol was shot over 50000 rounds !!

pistol-training.com >> Blog Archive >> M&P Monday: Week 25

So whay is normal accuracy from m&p because I been tools 4 to 5 inches at 25 yards is what I should be getting

My MP 2.0 gets 2" inch groups @25 yards all day long but when I do slow down I can do little bit better so it all depends on the shooters skill level or the lack of skills.....simple as that.

M&P Compact S&W 40 .. nothing wrong with M&P's accuracy if you do your part ..

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This was my thought exactly. If the barrel is shot after this many rounds, WOW, how many times must the springs and other parts have been replaced. I would imagine the barrel should get a much higher round count.

Can't address the accuracy issues.

OK I thin all polymer style guns have horrible accuracy issues after trying many out and I can shoot revolvers and hammer guns fine as lone as I cock hammer other wise they just to in accurate
I was shooting off the self guns I rented and all polymer guns where get 4to6inch groups at 25 yards I told this normal in defence hand guns and am like that horrible iin my opinion for defense

I just installed an Apex Gunsmith Fit barrel in my full size M&P M2.0 (4.25" barrel). Fitting the barrel to the slide requires hand fitting and is pretty easy. Fitting the barrel support pad to the frame requires a mill. You just keep taking .001" off the pad until you get the lockup you want. I had to remove .008" on mine.

Apex barrel is accurate. Mine will do 5 shot 1" groups at 25 yards from a rest.

Search here and you will find a number of lengthy threads about the accuracy issues with full-sized 9mm models along with what an Apex barrel can do (and what the possible problems might be). Besides that, who thinks that 6-8k rounds will "shoot out" a barrel to the point where it puts up 8" groups at 10 yards?

A word of advice to the OP... you're going to take a lot of abuse here on this forum if you smack talk a S&W product. The same thing would happen on most manufacturer-specific forums. (Just try talking about problems you have with an HK on their forum! Yeesh.)

I experienced accuracy issues with various M&P9's. One was putting up about 16" groups at 20 yards from a rest. It went back to S&W, I got the run around, and it was returned as "within spec". I tried other OEM barrels in it along with all types and weights of ammo, and no improvement was seen. I put an Apex barrel into it and it was instantly grouping under 2". S&W said there wasn't a problem.

My suggestion... sell it and move on or buy an Apex barrel. Even after I got the Apex barrel, I was so irritated that I sold off all my M&Ps and moved to a different platform for competition and defensive use. Good luck.