Nevertoomanyguns
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Well I finally took the M&P 45 out and fired 450 rounds through it. 400 were win white box 230 gr. fmj and 50 were wwb 230 JHP and all of them cycled through the gun without a problem. I fired from 10 to 25 yards changing it up every 2 mags.
I Love the fit and feel of the gun. Like I said in an early post I had a hard time getting use to the trigger. I have gotten over it now and the trigger feels very natural now and has smoothed out a lot. Its seems to break a little lighter now too.
I found that the 3 different grips were very important too. I actually found the small grip to be the most comfortable but when I shot with it my shots were about 6 inches to the left. With the medium grip I was shooting pretty much center but a little low. I ended up finding that I shot better with the large grip Impacts were dead on with the front sight. By the way all three grips felt good in my hand, the small one felt better but I shot better with the large, makes sense since I do have fairly large hands.
Felt recoil was a little snappier than my 1911 but not too bad and muzzle flip was minimal. Once I warmed up the the gun doing double taps, triple taps and running the gun dry as fast as I could was a breeze. Yea every once and a while I would have a flier but I could feel the flier as soon as I did it. In slow fire it would burn one ragged hole at all ranges out to 25 yards.
It may not be the same for everyone but this was the hardest handgun for me to get use to. The day I shot it I also shot my glocks, berreta 92, SA 1911 loaded, Smith 686, ruger super blackhawk, and my friends XD 45. I transitioned through all of these guns no problem, but once I picked up the M&P 45 I was all over the place and was very unhappy with the gun. After sleeping on it and deciding that I was judging the gun too soon the next day I went out with the 450 rounds and shot them all. I actually love this gun now It just took a little to get use to.
Well these are the two targets from the 450 rounds not too great but not bad and as we speak I am hand loading more rounds to practice with so my groups should get tighter. I am also going to load up some gold dots and give them a try.
I highly recommend the gun and if you get one make sure you test shoot all three grips and give it some time if you have some problems with the trigger like I did. You will work them out, it might just be me too.
I Love the fit and feel of the gun. Like I said in an early post I had a hard time getting use to the trigger. I have gotten over it now and the trigger feels very natural now and has smoothed out a lot. Its seems to break a little lighter now too.
I found that the 3 different grips were very important too. I actually found the small grip to be the most comfortable but when I shot with it my shots were about 6 inches to the left. With the medium grip I was shooting pretty much center but a little low. I ended up finding that I shot better with the large grip Impacts were dead on with the front sight. By the way all three grips felt good in my hand, the small one felt better but I shot better with the large, makes sense since I do have fairly large hands.
Felt recoil was a little snappier than my 1911 but not too bad and muzzle flip was minimal. Once I warmed up the the gun doing double taps, triple taps and running the gun dry as fast as I could was a breeze. Yea every once and a while I would have a flier but I could feel the flier as soon as I did it. In slow fire it would burn one ragged hole at all ranges out to 25 yards.
It may not be the same for everyone but this was the hardest handgun for me to get use to. The day I shot it I also shot my glocks, berreta 92, SA 1911 loaded, Smith 686, ruger super blackhawk, and my friends XD 45. I transitioned through all of these guns no problem, but once I picked up the M&P 45 I was all over the place and was very unhappy with the gun. After sleeping on it and deciding that I was judging the gun too soon the next day I went out with the 450 rounds and shot them all. I actually love this gun now It just took a little to get use to.
Well these are the two targets from the 450 rounds not too great but not bad and as we speak I am hand loading more rounds to practice with so my groups should get tighter. I am also going to load up some gold dots and give them a try.
I highly recommend the gun and if you get one make sure you test shoot all three grips and give it some time if you have some problems with the trigger like I did. You will work them out, it might just be me too.
I shoot the M&P just fine, the 1911 not so much. Oh well, that just means more practice!