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Old 07-04-2010, 3:43 PM
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Old 07-09-2010, 3:16 PM
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Just brought this .40 home today. Somebody had ::gasp:: pawned her. Some people! Going to clean her up and take her out for a spin this weekend.

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Just brought this .40 home today. Somebody had ::gasp:: pawned her. Some people! Going to clean her up and take her out for a spin this weekend.

Nice.

I just took mine to the range yesterday for the first time. Went through 300 rounds, zero issues and shot great. The recoil in .40 is great with the M&P platform, im very happy.


Now I have my eye on getting a M&P compact.
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just picked up my m&p 9 today, and it feels great. went to the range and put 200 rounds through. no problems of any kind but it was all FMJ ammo so that isn't saying much.

stopped by the Fresno gun show between picking up the gun and going to the range hoping to find some Ranger T or federal HST to see how it fares with some good defense ammo, but there wasn't a box of either from any booth. nuts.

maybe i'll post a few pics later on this evening.

compared to the XD45 that i had for a few years and sold, the M&P is a hands down winner in every aspect but the trigger. When people say it's gritty, i think they're being very forgiving to exactly how gritty it is! the pull weight is to my liking, but the grittiness makes the trigger as a whole almost as bad as my mossberg 590a1. some apex tactical parts should fix my trigger complaints right up though.

all in all, more than satisfied with my purchase, and can't wait to get the apex parts dropped in.
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just picked up my m&p 9 today, and it feels great. went to the range and put 200 rounds through. no problems of any kind but it was all FMJ ammo so that isn't saying much.

stopped by the Fresno gun show between picking up the gun and going to the range hoping to find some Ranger T or federal HST to see how it fares with some good defense ammo, but there wasn't a box of either from any booth. nuts.

maybe i'll post a few pics later on this evening.

compared to the XD45 that i had for a few years and sold, the M&P is a hands down winner in every aspect but the trigger. When people say it's gritty, i think they're being very forgiving to exactly how gritty it is! the pull weight is to my liking, but the grittiness makes the trigger as a whole almost as bad as my mossberg 590a1. some apex tactical parts should fix my trigger complaints right up though.

all in all, more than satisfied with my purchase, and can't wait to get the apex parts dropped in.


Congratulations! Apex Tactical parts are a must IMO and I think my FS9 prefers hotter Nato spec ammo like 124gr Ranger-T +P and CCI Lawmen but did not seem to like 147gr PDX1 which I 'was' going to switch to since I had access to it.
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Old 07-13-2010, 9:22 AM
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+1 on the Apex stuff.

I just picked up my M&P 45 last night and, before shooting a single shot, I put in the CDAEK kit. It makes a hugh difference in the break, greatly minimizes the over travel, and just smoothes out the whole motion. Best $90 I've ever spent on a gun (aside from training, of course )
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Is anyone else using the large back strap? I dont have overly large hands, but the large back strap really fills out my hand and allows me to get a much better grip.
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I use small, trying to get the grip as close to a 1911 grip as I can (im a 1911 guy)

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-M&P 40
-Storm Lake aftermarket barrel (.40)
-Apex DCAEK
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Only other planned mods are new sights. Trying to keep it legal for IDPA once I get into that
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Cant wait to get mine out of jail in 5 days!

Kind of a boring pic but here it is:

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Old 07-22-2010, 12:37 PM
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I'll play! Just got my M&P 45 and put in the Apex DCAEK before I put a single shot through it. And it just keeps getting smoother...

An X300 is on it's was as is a set of Novak night sights since I didn't like the warren tactical setup.





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Old 07-25-2010, 4:48 PM
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I have the M&P40 as well as M&P40c. Both shoot great. I can say it pretty much fires identical. My plans is the compact to be used for HD and the full-size for IDPA with a few changes. Planning on apex kit with a storm lake match barrel in 9mm. Once that project is done I'll post.

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Old 08-06-2010, 10:35 PM
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Here's my M&P with the apex DCAEK. the weapon light is not nearly that purple in person. had a polarizer over my lens which i'm pretty sure brought out the crazy color.
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Mine with an idiot light, LaserMax Guide Rod Laser. Helps me acquire the targets I missed 3x times faster, LOL... Other than that, stock .40S&W.
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My friend who did the stippling introduced these to me in January.
If there's one thing I love other than a 1911 it would have to be the M&P.
Trying to get my hands on a 9mm compact.
More importantly would anyone know where I could get a pro length slide for the 9mm?
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Picked it up and shot it today. I love this gun already, though I need a little more practice with it. My first groups with this thing were absolutely terrible, and I had an RSO who was also interested in the M&P9 fire the gun so I could figure out if it was the gun that was having problems, or if I was just a bad shot with it, and he was making some great groups with it. This being my first handgun, I need more practice!
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You guys w/ the FDE frames are makin' me jealous.
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My M&P 9. Can't wait to get my M&P 45 out of jail.
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Just installed most of the Apex DCAEK kit myself. It was actually pretty easily overall, and I don't even really have the right tools. I installed the new hard sear, sear plunger spring, and trigger spring. Honestly it was $60 for a few VERY tiny pieces of metal, and I feel somewhat ripped off when I think that it probably only cost them $1 worth of material to make, but I also know that there was plenty of R&D behind the design which is what most of the cost is. After having installed it on my gun and feeling the difference, even without the ultimate striker block, the trigger feels amazing now.
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Just installed most of the Apex DCAEK kit myself. It was actually pretty easily overall, and I don't even really have the right tools. I installed the new hard sear, sear plunger spring, and trigger spring. Honestly it was $60 for a few VERY tiny pieces of metal, and I feel somewhat ripped off when I think that it probably only cost them $1 worth of material to make, but I also know that there was plenty of R&D behind the design which is what most of the cost is. After having installed it on my gun and feeling the difference, even without the ultimate striker block, the trigger feels amazing now.

So how could you feel ripped off when there's literally hundreds of hours of R&D, patents, insurance, payroll, rent, etc? 17-4 Stainless is not easy to machine and is a high grade steel so your estimates on part costs are silly. The alternative is to send it to a smith where they reshape your stock sear for the same $ plus you pay a hefty charge for shipping overnight and insurance both ways.
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So how could you feel ripped off when there's literally hundreds of hours of R&D, patents, insurance, payroll, rent, etc? 17-4 Stainless is not easy to machine and is a high grade steel so your estimates on part costs are silly. The alternative is to send it to a smith where they reshape your stock sear for the same $ plus you pay a hefty charge for shipping overnight and insurance both ways.
Just when you look at the amount you're paying for the tiny objects you're getting. I know all that you mentioned costs a lot of money, but I can't help but feel like a couple tiny pieces of metal, regardless of how intricate or how much design hours went into them cost too much in the end. I'm just looking at this in terms of actual size of the object vs how much money they cost. I know you can't realistically look at products that way, but stuff this small just makes it difficult not to.
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Just when you look at the amount you're paying for the tiny objects you're getting. I know all that you mentioned costs a lot of money, but I can't help but feel like a couple tiny pieces of metal, regardless of how intricate or how much design hours went into them cost too much in the end. I'm just looking at this in terms of actual size of the object vs how much money they cost. I know you can't realistically look at products that way, but stuff this small just makes it difficult not to.


Look at it this way, a multi-million dollar company like Smith and Wesson couldn't make the same trigger for the price point that the M&P goes for and charges $110 for 5 minutes of dremeling, installing their sear and test firing it but then you factor in the $60 each way for shipping.

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/w...6_757751_image


Gunsmith's rarely get rich in their profession and when you also factor in the cost of ammo for testing, liability insurance and that they test some of their parts to 100,000 repitiotions from a shop of three people it all seems a bargain IMO. If the costs bother you than pull them out of your gun and sell them immediately since you have a difficult time understanding how small business works. Basing it on its size is silly considering how important these parts are to make sure a firearm fires reliably which can be a life or death experience.

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Look at it this way, a multi-million dollar company like Smith and Wesson couldn't make the same trigger for the price point that the M&P goes for and charges $110 for 5 minutes of dremeling, installing their sear and test firing it but then you factor in the $60 each way for shipping.

http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/w...6_757751_image


Gunsmith's rarely get rich in their profession and when you also factor in the cost of ammo for testing, liability insurance and that they test some of their parts to 100,000 repitiotions from a shop of three people it all seems a bargain IMO. If the costs bother you than pull them out of your gun and sell them immediately since you have a difficult time understanding how small business works. Basing it on its size is silly considering how important these parts are to make sure a firearm fires reliably which can be a life or death experience.
Lol, I know basing it on size is silly. I've already mentioned that realistically, I can't look at it that way, but I can't help it. I don't understand why you're getting so defensive about this. Do you always get mad when people have differing perspectives?
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You think the APEX DCAEK is expensive at $60?

Wait till you buy an engagement ring.
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You think the APEX DCAEK is expensive at $60?

Wait till you buy an engagement ring.
We're speaking relative terms here....
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How it should look! Awesome. Was it a class?
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How it should look! Awesome. Was it a class?
yea, i did a magpul 3 day handgun class last weekend. it was a blast!

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guessing it ran the russian stuff just fine?
yea it did for the most part, but it did get gunked up pretty good. i started getting FTF's and no slide lock back on empty mag on the end of the third day at about the 1200 round mark. but that's without me cleaning it at all during the 3 days. all in all, i'd run the dirty stuff again.

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heres mine same class same round count. No issues at all. great class.

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