I love my M&P9 full size. The better half likes the gun but hates shooting it. Much prefers her hi-point and its a decent pistol in 500 rds we only had 2 jams threw that mag in the trash can and the problem is gone. I just don't trust it as a carry gun. Now here's why she doesn't like shooting the M&P. Its ejects the spent case in an up and out motion she's blind in the right eye so she's a righty shooting left eye dominant. The case go right in her face and inside her jacket. The hi-point ejects out the side without the upward movement as the slide has no cut out on top. Is there a more quality pistol that is built this way ? If this is the wrong area to post this question I'm sorry but its really important to me and any help will be greatly appreciated.
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scattershot
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I've had hot brass land between my eye and my glasses, and it's no fun. Maybe "tweaking" the extractor or ejector would work. I hear that this is a common problem with some Glocks, and changing the extractor/ejector seems to help. FWIW, mine doesn't do that. Maybe hotter ammo would eject differently, too.
Good luck!.
Good luck!.
I was surprised when my 4.25" barrel M&P did the same thing with certain "soft hands" shooting mild handloads. It never did it with me.
After checking the extractor and ejector, I put on the small grips and changed the recoil spring (1# lighter ISMI spring from Brownells), and bumped up my load to minor power in the shorter barrel.
Result: No matter who shoots it, the empties go right instead of just back. "Soft hands" is still not locking her arm solid, as can be seen by the empties going twice as far when I shoot it. I shoot left eye, right handed when shooting around the left side of a barricade, so I'm holding tilted left also.
With a heavy gun (like a hi point) and light loads, some people get in the bad habit of just balancing the gun and letting it flip, which changes the way the semi-auto slide moves and reduces the force of ejection. Training helps.
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Thanks for the info. I may buy her an M&P compact or shield and try these. If it doesn't work I get a summer carry gun. Lol. She mentioned wanting to try a revolver. So maybe ill see if I can borrow a buddies and let her try that. She's pretty small what would be a reasonable caliber. She's thinking .357 but I'm worried about the snap of asnubby.
Bkreutz
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Get her the .357 but then buy only 38spl ammo for her.
