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I just shot an M&P .45 today... Ehhh. Not my cuppa tea. I liked the Performance Center 1911 a LOT better.
I just shot an M&P .45 today... Ehhh. Not my cuppa tea. I liked the Performance Center 1911 a LOT better.
I love my M&P full-sized 9 mm, but I wasn't as taken with the M&P .45. The sample I tested at S&W today may have been damaged, as it didn't hold the ten ring even when shot slow-fire at seven yards.
Don't use the dots, even if they are clean. Use the top of the front sight and the notch.It also didn't help that the front sight was fogged up with S+B .45 ACP gunk, I could barely make out the white dot, so I was basically seeing a whitish gray post up front for alignment.
Don't use the dots, even if they are clean. Use the top of the front sight and the notch.
Comparing the M&P to the performance center 1911 is really not a fair comparison.
Don't use the dots, even if they are clean. Use the top of the front sight and the notch.
True to a point, but I guess when shooting the two side by side (or back to back) the differences are just that much more obvious. The PC1911 with the clean easy break contrasted with the notchy M&P with an odd reset. Ergonomics are both good IMO but quite different. The PC1911 trigger just made everything else pale in comparison... but again it's a $1500 gun vs. a $500 gun. I'll keep my M&P .40 and save for the PC1911.
Mike and I must have shot the same M&P .45!
I even think that the crude on the top of the front sight made it uneven!
Good shooting gun, but the trigger reset was best described as "strange"!
Mike and I must have shot the same M&P .45!
I even think that the crude on the top of the front sight made it uneven!
Good shooting gun, but the trigger reset was best described as "strange"!
I definitely want one when they become available in MA.
Regrettably I didn't try any other of their M&P models. I really didn't want another 9mm or .40.
I liked the M&P, but there wasn't anything radical enough in the feature set to make me want to give up my P99, beyond having 10 rounds of .45, but I still like the 1911 platform better for .45's. To me, the most amazing thing about the M&P is that it can be had brand new for less money than I paid used for my P99 a year ago.
I am not out to rape anyone sold a XD 5inch 40SW with night sights and 3 mags when I first moved back for the same $330 I paid to a guy I knewn from training for a job I worked. The next thing I see it on this forum here for over 300 more then I sold it to him that kind of back stabing on price is why I would never sell to him again and is why you some som hard to come by model going for nuts for money.
I think you'll find that you'll be more accurate by matching the top of the front sight to the top of the rear notch, than you will be trying to line up the front and rear dots. Try it.All my combat sights are set so that the POI is exactly where the dot is covering. My M&P is the same way. The only exeption to this is my 1911 in which I have the top of the front sight=POI.
I do quite well on IDPA with my Wilson Combat 1911 with all-black sights, thank you very much. Not so great on indoor stages, but I find these sights much faster than any white-dot sights I've used (including those on my Kimbers).Black sights shine for precision paper punching but not for close shots at 7 yards on IPSC sized targets.
I do quite well on IDPA with my Wilson Combat 1911 with all-black sights, thank you very much. Not so great on indoor stages, but I find these sights much faster than any white-dot sights I've used (including those on my Kimbers).
Black sights work just great on tan cardboard targets, IMHO. I find them a bit harder to use on black targets. YMMV.
I'll be glad to let you give it a go the next time we're at a match together.I would like to try that Wilson some time and see if I can see the front sight.
I just shot an M&P .45 today... Ehhh. Not my cuppa tea. I liked the Performance Center 1911 a LOT better.
My sentiments exactly.
I think you'll find that you'll be more accurate by matching the top of the front sight to the top of the rear notch, than you will be trying to line up the front and rear dots. Try it.
If the dots are installed properly, then when the dots are lined up, the top of the front sight is even with the top of the rear notch. That is, a plane intersecting the dots should be parallel with a plane set on top of the sights. These two planes are just a couple millimeters apart. So if they are parallel, then the difference in point of aim would just be a couple millimeters (the height difference between the center of the dots and the top of the sights).I'm sure you are correct but it would require lots of sight changes on my Sigs and Glocks unless I was willing to shot them all a little low.
I just shot an M&P .45 today... Ehhh. Not my cuppa tea. I liked the Performance Center 1911 a LOT better.
I'm with you. the M&P slid around in my hands and just didn't feel right. I like a more agressive texture on the grip or a rubber grip.
Matt