Bought a M&P .40 S&W Pro Series - Starting to like it!!!!

[WrongWay]

Just got this today, brought it home and cleaned it. I haven't shot it yet. I hate the trigger, feels like it has gravel in it somewhere.

I have decided to get rid of it. It is very dissapointing to fork over $600.00 and have to put another $40-$60 to get a decent trigger.

Fast forward to Saturday

Just got back from the gun show, where Glocks were selling for $470.00, and they have butter smooth triggers. What is wrong with S&W's quality control. It doesn't exist, that's what's wrong.

 

[Lost Lake]

There's a reason Glocks are selling for $470 and S&W's go for $600.

It's the same reason Mercedes cost more than Chevy's.

If they could get more for a Glock believe me they would!

 

[growr]

Dry fire it a lot and then hit the range with live fire....believe me it goes away quickly.

Randy

 

[125JHP]

I'll give you 500 for it and you can buy the glock and an extra mag... hows that sound?

 

[Silversmok3]

Your experience is not unique. I sent my M&P9 down the road because the trigger reset on my example was so hard to find, the Discovery Channel could film a three part mystery series on it.

"Lost Technologies of Civilization :The Mayan Calendar , The Great Pyramids, and the M&P Trigger Reset...."

 

[Nakanokalronin]

Glock owners put in a ton of trigger parts to make the triggers better as well. If you put just an Apex hard sear and a DIY polish job on the striker block, the Glock trigger are going to feel like a staple gun in comparison.......not that they already don't.

Your post seems a little over the top as well. You must have not pulled the trigger on the gun in the store, you also just got it home and never fired it, but you hate it and want to sell it immediately. I know we're in a time where people expect instant gratification, but take it to the range and THEN see if you hate it with 3 exclamation points.

 

[GKC]

I own a number of M&Ps, and I've never found the triggers to be so bad...maybe I am just not as finger-sensitive as some. I admit they aren't anything like my 1911s, but I don't find them all that different from the Glocks I have owned.

I wouldn't give up on it before I spent the $60 or so you mentioned to put in a trigger kit, and also spend some time shooting/dry firing it...and see if the trigger smooths out to your liking. It will be well worth it, for the M&P is a great pistol.

 

[mkett39]

I recently bought my first M&P 40c and love it. I do agree it is hard to feel a reset but I don't mind. It is the feel of the actual trigger that was a little harder to get use to after shooting XDm's FNH's and ruger but they all have differences and that is what makes each one fun to shoot in it's own way.

 

[bp231986]

WrongWay, you are right!! the M&P's are the WORST guns out on the market, how dare they even try to pass that as a gun....please help me help you... send me the pistol im sure ill find some use for it...do need a paper weight. In return ill go get ya a Hi Point and send it to ya. Hope ive helped

 

[WrongWay]

Glock owners put in a ton of trigger parts to make the triggers better as well. If you put just an Apex hard sear and a DIY polish job on the striker block, the Glock trigger are going to feel like a staple gun in comparison.......not that they already don't.

Your post seems a little over the top as well. You must have not pulled the trigger on the gun in the store, you also just got it home and never fired it, but you hate it and want to sell it immediately. I know we're in a time where people expect instant gratification, but take it to the range and THEN see if you hate it with 3 exclamation points.

All my Glocks have 3lb Ghost trigger disconnectors installed. I did that because I have an injury to my right hand and it was difficult to operate the stock Glock trigger because it was 5lbs. The stock Glock triggers were all smooth from the factory.

I ordered this M&P after handling one at a LGS. The one I handled had a very nice trigger, so I figured the one I ordered would be the same. The one I ordered was about $70.00 cheaper than the other store. Had I known the trigger would not be the same, I would have bought the more expensive gun.

 

[OKFC05]

The one I handled had a very nice trigger, so I figured the one I ordered would be the same.

It is a common experience that the well-snapped and handled demo specimen of a pistol has a much slicker trigger than factory fresh. I have bought several guns and taken the demo model in preference to the "new one ordered in."
That's what the other posters have been trying to get across: the initial roughness works out with use or polish. Then if you want even lighter after that, there's APEX.

 

[WrongWay]

Bad finish on the slide as well

When I went to the dealer who odered this M&P, I was like a kid in a candy store, and didn't even notice the two areas on the slide that did not take the finish properly.

Worst part about the whole transaction, I had to pay up front to get the pistol ordered. Big lesson learned there.

I'm going to call S&W tomorrow about the finish on the slide and see if they will repair it.

 

[Deputy]

Well it IS a nice-looking gun.
But the bottom line is YOU have to like it. if you don't, dump it and buy something else. I am not very trigger sensitive, but I have NEVER had to take a new gun out and buy a trigger kit to make the trigger feel right. If that's the case with the M&P after you shelled out over $600 samolies for it, I'd be pretty peed off too.

 

[WrongWay]

It is a common experience that the well-snapped and handled demo specimen of a pistol has a much slicker trigger than factory fresh. I have bought several guns and taken the demo model in preference to the "new one ordered in."
That's what the other posters have been trying to get across: the initial roughness works out with use or polish. Then if you want even lighter after that, there's APEX.

Last night I sat in front of the tv and dry fired the M&P at least 300 times, and also just pulled the trigger thru the gritty part of the travel maybe another 3-400 times and it didn't seem to get any better at all.

If Smith agrees to repair the bad finish on the slide, maybe I can get them to do something about the trigger.

 

[plisken]

I thought the same thing with my M&p9c. And after dry firing and shooting at the range its coming around and Im liking it better. Give yours a chance like I did before you sell it. it took me some extra time to get used to mine. good luck with yours

 

[WrongWay]

Well it IS a nice-looking gun.
But the bottom line is YOU have to like it. if you don't, dump it and buy something else. I am not very trigger sensitive, but I have NEVER had to take a new gun out and buy a trigger kit to make the trigger feel right. If that's the case with the M&P after you shelled out over $600 samolies for it, I'd be pretty peed off too.

You are right, it is a good looking gun, and I want to like it the way I like my Glocks.

If S&W customer service comes thru, and the gun shoots as well as everyone says, I'll be a happy camper. If S&W will not refinish the slide, then I'll send it down the road.

 

[Deputy]

Last night I sat in front of the tv and dry fired the M&P at least 300 times, and also just pulled the trigger thru the gritty part of the travel maybe another 3-400 times and it didn't seem to get any better at all.

If Smith agrees to repair the bad finish on the slide, maybe I can get them to do something about the trigger.

Sounds like a plan. Tell them about the grittiness and maybe they can do something about it.

 

[SurgicalShark]

I have to chime in here, I own a 40pro I put the competition trigger and ram assist by apex and love this gun. I was OK with the way it was born. I like the fact that I took the time to fine tune it to my liking. To me it's perfect, to another who knows. Smith & Wesson make great American Made products. Most professional shooters have Thousands of dollars invested in their competition pistols. Smith & Wesson made the Pro editions for the average Joe to have a solid entry level pistol for competition shooting. You take that and tweak it out, and you will have one heck of a competition firearm. Anyway its just my two cents, and this from the guy who was issued Glocks during his prior career. Glock makes great firearms and I trusted them every day as my duty weapon. Now that I have a choice... M&P is far superior in my opinion.

M&P 40/357/9mm, M&P 40 PRO, M&P 22

 

[Silversmok3]

For what it is worth, ive never shot two handguns with exactly the same trigger pull. My 5903 & 5904 SHOULD feel the same to my trigger finger,but they in fact do not as my 5904 has a perceptibly heavier trigger pull than my 5903-and the latter was made earlier.

As to the M&P, I shot mine with about 500 rounds. The trigger felt marginally smoother after all that shooting, but the reset was still AWOL.

 

[remat457]

I don't mean to sound rude, but I would never have taken delivery of the pistol if you were that unhappy with it. If you bought it from somewhere/one that has a no return/exchange policy, well, then it was a risk. As mentioned M&P triggers have gone through several changes and seem to vary quite a bit from pistol to pistol and especially from year to year. They, at least, IMO do seem to be improving.