What did you do for 1 9 11?
I actually shot my Smith and Wesson M&P9. I put 200 rounds through it yesterday. Zero failures of any kind. Trigger pull is good, not fantastic. It’s a bit stacky and has a short reset. I was consistently low and to the right with it so a sight adjustment is in order. Not sure how to do that yet.
I’ve missed shooting a 9mm. Good to have one again. 18 rounds of goodness is fun but it makes reload math more difficult when you’re used to counting by tens.
I’ve also missed shooting a full-sized gun. All these compacts and sub-compacts I shoot all the time made me forget what it’s like to get a good grip on a full size pistol.
January 10th, 2011 at 12:33 pm
When I switched to the Glock 20 from the 29, I was amazed at how much easier it was to carry.
I got the compact because I thought it’d be difficult and uncomfortable to conceal a full size frame. For me, I was wrong.
January 10th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
I have no problem, normally, concealing a GLock 19. Not technically a full sized handgun, but close.
January 10th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
I shoot my 1911 and my MK II in a Bowling Pin match at Three Points Range outside Tucson.
January 10th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
You wouln’t shoot lefty would you? I shoot right handed and tend to go low left on my M&P but I know I need more practice with it before I go change anything. . .
January 10th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
I thanked God I didn’t have a 1911!
There. Hate speech.
(I don’t hate the 1911.)
January 10th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I went to a gun show after playing Army and drooled over all the pretty 1911s well out of my current financial status. But I did pick up a stripped AR lower…
As for the M&P, I dropped an Apex DCAEK in mine last week. The trigger feels all sorts of awesome now. Worth looking into.
January 10th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
My just-turned-21 son borrowed my Glock 19 to take the shooting portion of his Concealed Handgun License course at Red’s Shooting Range in Pflugerville, Texas.
I did not have a 1911 to loan him, unfortunately, so he took 3 loaded magazines and five loose cartridges (to demonstrate reloading of magazine) for his 50 shot test.
January 10th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
I reloaded a box full of rounds to be used in my 1911 at this week’s USPSA match at my local range. That’s about it.
It’s a 1911 in .40 S&W. That should freak enough people out right there.
January 10th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
I went pig hunting with a Cadillac ed brown here in kona, hi. It was a great day.
Also, don’t count your rounds dude, your only focus should be hitting the target accurately and timely.
January 10th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Well, when shooting a new autoloader, the old saw about putting two hundred or so rounds thru it to function-test is still a good idea. Modern manufacturing methods (properly executed, that is)leave fewer functioning issues in new guns than in times gone by, but do you really want to bet your life, or your loved ones’, on a pistol you have not thoroughly tested? This process should include ball and several types of HPs. Don’t count on always being able to get your preferred type of load.
January 10th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
The M&P sights are adjusted with a punch and a hammer. Be really really sure that:
A. It’s actually the sights, and not you. Get a bench, and get someone else to shoot it.
and
B. That the sights are stable, and not walking under recoil. There have been a few M&Ps that have sights (I think only front sights) that walk left-to-right. This would probably have you hitting more and more left, though.
To change height, you’ll obviously have to replace the front-sight all together, or file the front-sight shorter yourself.
January 10th, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Yesterday, on 1/9/11, I shot about 150 rounds of .40 S&W through my STI 2011 at a USPSA match.
January 10th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
I shot about 200 rounds through my M9. Shot consistently low and right, but throughly perforated the little, paper, orange dude.
Gun show this weekend and Concealed Carry class next week. Looking to get something slightly more carry-able than the M9 to take to class with me, but we’ll see. Kimber Super Ultra calls my name, but wallet says “No, no, no.”