Dad & daughter day at the range with the M&P 10mm

tlawler · #1 06-18-2022, 01:59 PM

I picked up a Holosun 507c with the green ring reticule for my M&P 10mm this morning and headed to the range with my daughter. This young lady is presently going through the academy to become a LEO. She’s been shooting with me for a quite a few years now and a lot lately during training. I thought she might be a little adverse to the recoil, but that wasn’t the case at all. In fact she loved shooting the 10. She has shot my 1026 and 610 on occasion, but the recoil of the lighter M&P is quite pronounced compared to them. We each put over a hundred rounds through it and both loved the Holosun. I like it because I don’t have to wear cheaters under my safety glasses…what a difference! She liked it because she could tear out the center of the target. Perps beware!

Ammo was my reloaded 180gr. Berry’s over 10.2gr. Bluedot
Body sized target is hers at 21ft.
Smaller target is mine at 36ft. With slow aimed fire, I was punching out the middle, but when I tried rapid fire it spread out a bit.

M29since14 · #2 06-18-2022, 02:40 PM

That’s great! My daughter grew up shooting with me, as did yours with you, and she was never recoil averse until one day she fired my 4-inch .44 Magnum. The fact that I could shoot it without suffering much but it was intolerable to her bothered her a bit. My advice was to forget about the .44 Magnum and to just shoot whatever she enjoys. The gun she shoots and enjoys most is a .45 ACP 1911 PC-model, and she does very well with it. Like your daughter, she can handle anything “reasonable.”

We have not been together at the range since I bought my M&P 10mm, but I’m pretty sure it would not be a problem. The M&P seems to handle recoil a lot better than my Delta Elite. It’s not an unpleasant gun to fire, IMO. My usual handload is a 175 gr. powder-coated bullet at about 1150 FPS. I imagine your Blue Dot load in about 100 FPS faster?

I hope your daughter has a long and safe career.

tlawler · #3 06-18-2022, 02:58 PM

Here’s a video of Kalei shooting the M&P