Trevor300wsm
Well-Known Fanatic
Hello,
I picked up a new M&P Pro 9L CORE today. I wanted another long slide 9mm and I'm not a Glock fan and I have a couple of XDM's already. The M&P fits my hand better than Glocks also. I already knew the trigger was lacking in this pistol so last week I ordered an Apex Flat Faced FSS complete kit and had it here ready to put in. I put a little over 100 rounds through the pistol today in its stock configuration just to see how it shot. It's not a bad pistol. However, I compare everyting to my STI Tactical. Now I know this is not a apples to apples comparison. A $600 pistol versus a $1800 pistol that I've put about 2500 rounds through already. The two things that I was disappointed in with the M&P are accuracy and failure to feed/eject. Out of the 100+ rounds I fired, it jammed up 6 times. Now this is just cheap Red River ammo, but I've shot over 2000+ rounds of it thru my STI without a single issue. Make a note that i did strip, clean, and oil the M&P very well before I shot it today. The second thing is the accuracy. It's just not even close to my STI. Is this normal? Is there that much difference in the barrels? At 50 yards I can stay on a 10" plate about 18 out of 20 shots fairly easy with my STI. With the M&P, I was hitting it about every 3rd or 4th shot and I could see the misses and they looked wild (way off). Is this me and my lack of time with this pistol? I don't think so, but I'm not ruling it out.
So, what do I do? Move this pistol on down the line to a new home? Buy a new match grade barrel for it and have close to $1000 in a plastic pistol that will only get used sometimes? If I don't have confidence in it, I'll never take it to a match. This is huge with me on my match rifles. Keep it, install the apex kit and just accept that it's not going to be as accurate as my STI? Just looking for some opinions and ideas.
As a side note, I am wanting to start shooting some local (OKC) pistol matches. I love to shoot pistol and there is not much of it that goes on in the PRS rifle matches that I shoot. In the PRS matches, the targets are usually very large, close, and usually less than 10-15 rounds total. I was thinking the M&P would be a good pistol for those matches and save the wear and tear on my STI.
Any advice?
I picked up a new M&P Pro 9L CORE today. I wanted another long slide 9mm and I'm not a Glock fan and I have a couple of XDM's already. The M&P fits my hand better than Glocks also. I already knew the trigger was lacking in this pistol so last week I ordered an Apex Flat Faced FSS complete kit and had it here ready to put in. I put a little over 100 rounds through the pistol today in its stock configuration just to see how it shot. It's not a bad pistol. However, I compare everyting to my STI Tactical. Now I know this is not a apples to apples comparison. A $600 pistol versus a $1800 pistol that I've put about 2500 rounds through already. The two things that I was disappointed in with the M&P are accuracy and failure to feed/eject. Out of the 100+ rounds I fired, it jammed up 6 times. Now this is just cheap Red River ammo, but I've shot over 2000+ rounds of it thru my STI without a single issue. Make a note that i did strip, clean, and oil the M&P very well before I shot it today. The second thing is the accuracy. It's just not even close to my STI. Is this normal? Is there that much difference in the barrels? At 50 yards I can stay on a 10" plate about 18 out of 20 shots fairly easy with my STI. With the M&P, I was hitting it about every 3rd or 4th shot and I could see the misses and they looked wild (way off). Is this me and my lack of time with this pistol? I don't think so, but I'm not ruling it out.
So, what do I do? Move this pistol on down the line to a new home? Buy a new match grade barrel for it and have close to $1000 in a plastic pistol that will only get used sometimes? If I don't have confidence in it, I'll never take it to a match. This is huge with me on my match rifles. Keep it, install the apex kit and just accept that it's not going to be as accurate as my STI? Just looking for some opinions and ideas.
As a side note, I am wanting to start shooting some local (OKC) pistol matches. I love to shoot pistol and there is not much of it that goes on in the PRS rifle matches that I shoot. In the PRS matches, the targets are usually very large, close, and usually less than 10-15 rounds total. I was thinking the M&P would be a good pistol for those matches and save the wear and tear on my STI.
Any advice?