New M&P owner

tcanthonyii

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Hello! I became an M&P owner today. To be honest I've never personally liked the M&P a whole lot. I have a fair number of Ruger's and an XD. I first shot an M&P almost exactly 5 years ago. I was visiting my dad and shot his 45c. I HATED the trigger gritting and hard, that's how I ended up with and XD, he also had one and I loved it, still love my XD45c, then I got an SR9c over an XD9sc and abslutely love that gun as well. Along the way I've snagged an SR40c for the wife (I'm not a 40 guy), an SR1911, LC9 and P3at.

So anyway birthday is in December and I've been saving up my bday/christmas cash, not much but $200. Yesterday I sold an old Steven 84c 22lr for $125 so I had some wiggle room. Wasn't really sure what I was saving up for, a 22 pistol? A compact 1911? XDs in 45? .243 rifle for the wife? Nothing real EXCITED me which told me to just hold on to the money with some other cash I've saved up recently. Then last night perusing facebook gun trader sites a guy had posted the day before a M&P 9c and M&P 40 PRo. 350 for 9 and 400 for the pro. I couldn't believe the price. My dad has since become an M&P collector I think so I bent his hear and he kept texting me all night telling me angels will sing if I buy it.... A friend was over and he's and M&P guy as well and he was tell me to go get it. Interestingly even at that price NO ONE had commented about buying it. As luck would have it the guy was going to be about an hour away from me instead of 2 hours so I made arrangements. I offered him 320 in cash and he literally ripped the money out of my hands, dang it! I could have gotten for 300 or less! Still a REALLY good deal I think.

I still despise the stock trigger. I'm visiting my Dad again in a few weeks so I'll take this along and get it fixed up. He says he has ALL the parts laying around to fix it. I already removed the safety. YUCKY! Not a fan of the ginormous safety that this had on it.

It does shoot excellent. Ran to mags through it at my friends farm on the way home and it ran my reloads perfect and was very accurate.

I've already been offered more for it but for now it will see regular holster duty with the rest of the fleet. I like it, more than I thought I would.

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Welcome to the Ward.

Since you mentioned it, I have an SR1911 CMD. Love it.

I also have 3 M&Ps (all 9's). Including a Compact. Love them too.

Yours seem to have had the manual safety removed. Did you do it or the previous owner?
 
I removed the safety. I'm not against safeties,my LC and SR9c both have them, just for this one it was extremely bulky and basically felt like an after thought. Just not for me on this particular gun.
 
Welcome! You can get a plug for the hole left by the safety.
 
Yea I saw those. Not sure if I'll get them or not. Kinda funny that they sell those. Makes you wonder why they even offer one with the safety if so many people remove theirs. Plus it's extrmlu simple.
 
Yea I saw those. Not sure if I'll get them or not. Kinda funny that they sell those. Makes you wonder why they even offer one with the safety if so many people remove theirs. Plus it's extrmlu simple.

You should get a plug to keep contaminants out.
 
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So the plugs are there in non safety guns as well?

My apologies my previous comment was incorrect. There are two different frames. The M&P's with manual safeties have the square plugs and the M&P's that have or can be fitted with a safety lock have round plugs.
 
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New M&P40 for GF and M&P45 for me

We got these for each other for Christmas - I really want a 9mm in FDE too
 
So I emailed S&W as I couldn't find anyone who had any plugs in stock. They shipped them to me for free. I got them last week and installed Thursday night. My only complaint is that you have to remove the whole rear trigger assembly. It's not bad just one step you don't want to mess with.

Also last week I put in an APEX striker block last week. It smoothed the take up a little bit but there are some notches on the trigger bar that need polished.

I'm getting more used to the trigger. I still despise that it breaks so far to the rear. I wish it would start to engage sooner. I have an extra sear so I may try to file it my self. Maybe I'll decide to get the but the apex sear... Still thinking of getting some fiber sites and will for sure at some point get the polymer action trigger. I do not like the stock hinged trigger. The hinge moves too easy and I don't trust it's safety. The little blade style is much harder for something to push it down as something has to go all the way through the trigger guard. Just my personal thing, I'm sure it's safe as is.

The gun has been ridiculously accurate. I can hole on hole with it all day long especially with the hornady 124gr hp's I loaded up with Unique. Most of my guns can shoot that way but I've had a few that were just not accurate, my first SR1911 for one. This is not one of those. I am enjoying it and it's pulling rotation with my Ruger SR9c
 
I guess. I don't mind the creep so much as the design of the trigger. The sear would be nice because it would start engaging earlier and not have that "hump" at the end of the trigger pull to get over.
 
I guess. I don't mind the creep so much as the design of the trigger. The sear would be nice because it would start engaging earlier and not have that "hump" at the end of the trigger pull to get over.

Seems you really like the gun so get the Apex. The Apex trigger is much better than stock. Because you have the safety model you probably aren't going to be able to fit the RAM, if you wanted that too.
 
Congratulations on the new M&P. The thing about the M&P triggers is that it takes about 45 minutes to vastly improve them, at no cost at all if you have a diamond plate/hone.

My first was the M&P45c and it is without question the most accurate-shooting handgun I've ever owned--for me at least. The stock trigger was sort of crappy, but not all that big a deal. It's quite sweet now. After that one, I bought the MP40Pro 5", expecting a better trigger out of the box. Wrong--it was considerably worse than the 45c was. It too is fixed now with a few selected APEX parts. It is maybe the most fun-to-shoot gun I have with light IDPA loads, etc. I love it.

The M&Ps aren't guns to sit by the fireplace with to admire and fondle, although they certainly have more pleasing aesthetics than the Glocks I have, IMO. They do shoot though, and they seem to be custom made for my hands. Can't say that about any other handguns I've fired.

Enjoy!!
 
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