Dan Burwell

Joel, Hard question to answer right now, as I still need to finish testing things before I will know waht all it is going to take. but the minimum would be the storm lake barrel and a comp along with the mag well and mag extensions from Kenny. The springs seem to be the hard part, there need to be a fine balance here. I just recently put a C-more STS on mine to see if that is going to hold up well to permently replace my Jpoint. The STS looks a heck of a lot nicer. I am about to start in on one made from a 9L for my wife to shoot next year in open, So I should have a better Idea of const on a 9L in a couple months. After doing some weighing and measureing I am starting to think the 9L is a better starting point as the slide will be easier to lighten (which will mean cheaper to do for a customer). hope this helps a little. Dan

Compared to the original slide stop all M&Ps now come with an extended slide stop. The original was pretty much impossible to work and only a few thousand left S&W with the orignal flat style on them. Most owners would not call what the M&P now comes with an extended slide stop, unless they tried the original.

I personally love guns that are beat to hell, mostly the reason I won't post pictures of my own guns.

Yes you would need to send them the gun, their turn around is about two weeks. They will also likely undo any trigger work you have had done unless you ask them to leave it alone, and even then sometimes they still undo it. otherwise I would just use something like weaponshield put a very heavy coat on let it soak over night then use a shop rag and some muscle to rub the rust out

S&W had problems with their previous Melonite supplier skipping steps which would lead to the rusting issues. If if bothers you too much call S&W CS and they will send you a call tag and replace the slide no charge.

Dan, What powder / set up were you using on these loads? Ultramax is reloaded ammo I got a bunch cheap from Dick's one time.

I use BBI 130s, 147's and Montanna Gold 147 CMJ's they all work very well for me. I had one customer that had no luck with the Zero 147s, never tried them myself so I cannot say for certain whether the problem was the load or the bullet. My open M&P seems to love the MG 115 HPs loaded up to a 175-180pf. I have also shot a crap load of the ultramax 124 lead load, and every M&P I shot that junk out of shot amazing groups.

I'm new enough to reloading that I'm trying to understand why that would increase the accuracy? What would this do besides make it go faster? (Honest question) Thanks. Two reasons, one more pwoder behind it will cause the bullet to "obturiate" or expand to get into teh rifling better, it will also come out at a higher velocity with a higher RPM which could help stablize the bullet better. This is not to say a hotter load will be more accurate, but I have found a lot of these powder puff loads people are trying to shoot in minor, just are not enough to stablize the bullets.

I like the looks as well, but Dan H.(plate-tacular) cannot get it to stick to the M&P's. I sent him several last year, he played with it a lot before he finally threw in the towel.

Yes

Thank you for posting that, very helpful to hear how people deal with adversity.

Your description of the striker is normal, it has a "swell" towards the front that wil not allow the plastic off easily. M&Ps never launch pencils very well at all, in fact most will not even get one to clear the barrel. the ammo certainly sounds like a problem though, it should drop right in and fall right out, and spin easily.

Since I didn't load them I cannot say. What is the primer and what was it loaded on? Any way you could have not had them seated the whole way? You are back to the stock recoil spring?

I am thinking you load needs tweaking, maybe trying the 147s will help out or turning the power up on the 130s. Shooting a MG147 over solo1000 my 50yd off hand target looks a little better than your benched one, and I can't shoot groups for crap, so I know my gun is capable of better than that.

Went through the same thing we bought one of these a few years ago and I have never regreted it yet: Marcy weight machine this year the wife bought me a set of the Boflex selec-tec dumbells which has been a great addition.

Kevin, send me an email.

if a 19 is right than a 45c will be as well they are basically the same size.

depends on how big your hands are I can get all fingers on a 45C. The 45C grip is about 1/2 in shorter than the full size, where the 9/40C are about 1 inch shorter. Not sure but I didn't think the 45C's came with the pinky extensions, that would make them longer the a full size.

I checked out their web site would like to hear anyone's experience good or bad with these guys.

I liked it because it does make the grip shorter forcing your hand higher up into the beavertail. if you can miss a reload with that on it you may want to dry fire a little more often It does fit the IDPA box and works very well.

Good job Jeff!

that's cuz there is only two in your pd, and you can't grow one.

at my house my wife has been instructed to stop me any time I say "grab the video camera this should be a good one" Now that I think about this has been a standing rule for 15yrs but she hasn't stopped me yet.... What does that mean?

The answer is no stage points. why, because that is what Ez-WinScore says