NEW FORUM RULES 9/07/08 — Please Read!

[saltydogbk]

I think I'm gonna cry, I feel so much love here...

[jaybet]

Tomobogan---thanks for the advice, and that's exactly what I've been doing.
I have little experience with striker fired, but i have fired several, and wasn't overly turned off by them. I was pretty happy with the pre-recall SR9 trigger- gritty but the feel was good. The new one is very, very different and (for me) hard to control.
In order to asses the problem (assuming operator error) I HAVE been doing the wall drill a lot, working on grip, trigger finger placement, etc. and it is extremely difficult for me not to get lateral movement on trigger pull.
Also unhappy with the trigger, I tried something before a range trip that I think helped, and I'll pass it on.
I field stripped the gun then put the mag back in and looked at everything that moves on firing. I dumped oil all over all of it (perhaps "dumped" is an exaggeration) including the backside of the trigger. Then I dry fired just the trigger mechanism a lot, holding the gun in all different angles. Then I cleaned the oil out.
The other thing I did was take off the slide and turn it over. There is a small cleat or bracket on the striker. I put a little oil around there and (using a hard plastic dowel) I pushed the striker bracket back toward the rear of the pistol. I figure this simluates the firing motion, but pushing it back as far as it will go compresses the spring slightly MORE than it would in firing. I did that for a few minutes.
I took a range trip after that effort and actually thought I saw an improvement. I am still almost always getting pulled off target when I pull the trigger, but the wild, off the paper stuff is rare. So I went from three out of 5 off the paper to all on the paper, with inconsistent locations.  That's real progress, I think. Considering I could shoot the gun as well as any other when I got it, it's still not up to where it should be, but it's better than it was.
The trigger may still not be for me, but I think in doing what I described I've loosened it up a little.

[mosbear]

Tomobogan---thanks for the advice, and that's exactly what I've been doing.
 Considering I could shoot the gun as well as any other when I got it, it's still not up to where it should be, but it's better than it was.
The trigger may still not be for me, but I think in doing what I described I've loosened it up a little.

I've gone through the same with my M&P9. A lot of range time and dry firing at home to get a feel of this gun.
If you'll go for a swap be prepared to spend time with the new gun. I suspect MB M&P9 got Performance Center sear installed; otherwise I don't see how the trigger pull can be excellent. Trigger pulls on any M&P are heavy “out of the box”, but this could be fixed rather quickly.
Here is a link to M&P forum, if you are interested.
http://mp-pistol.com/boards/

[Rastus]

I've gone through the same with my M&P9. A lot of range time and dry firing at home to get a feel of this gun.
If you'll go for a swap be prepared to spend time with the new gun. I suspect MB M&P9 got Performance Center sear installed; otherwise I don't see how the trigger pull can be excellent. Trigger pulls on any M&P are heavy “out of the box”, but this could be fixed rather quickly.
Here is a link to M&P forum, if you are interested.
http://mp-pistol.com/boards/

Mosbear,...I thought I needed a second 45 before they got banned (it was looking really bleak a few months back, remember?) so I picked up an M&P on recommendation of some gun people at USSA, had a gunsmith put a trigger job on it and   W - O - W .  Very sweet trigger now, I asked for 4.5 lbs and it's so dang good I picked up an M&P 9MM and had the trigger work performed before the first shot.....also sweet....still a striker with some takeup...but it breaks like glass same place same weight (actually measured) every time.   The same gunsmith has my ***** *** pistol and I'm hoping he can do something with it.

[Hazcat]

Rastus,

Could he help your (our) POS Mosquito?

[Sponsor]

[Rastus]

Rastus,

Could he help your (our) POS Mosquito?

I plan on dropping it of (along with Kimber Team Match) just as soon as I pick up the CZ 75B, SPO-1 and ***** *** that's having the trigger job.

Ordering a can for my Mosquito next week so it's got to work.

[Hazcat]

I plan on dropping it of (along with Kimber Team Match) just as soon as I pick up the CZ 75B, SPO-1 and ***** *** that's having the trigger job.

Ordering a can for my Mosquito next week so it's got to work.

[Hazcat]

OH wait!  Ya mean a supressor?  Where?  How much?

[gunman1911]

I guess we should have seen this comming as we do gripe alot and very hard about some issues here and maybe get out of hand with it. Not  thinking if the good people who run this fourm for us to enjoy  and now it has come time to apologize to them for the problemes that we have ocuured on them, so I will make mine now and hope that we all can do better for them and make thier jobs and life a litter ezyer so they can concentrae on giving us the best damm gun site on the web!

We all have one time or another thaked and even blessed them for this site that the work night day and evvn weeks without a rest to bring us the latest on events. So i say lets show (once agin) the thanks and respect for them by obeying thier rules.
I'll shut up now and go stand in my corrner. ( sorry fir typo's just got my puter back and it has been wiped of everthiny including spee check)

[Hazcat]

Hre ya go Gman

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It heps me a consederble banch as ya kin sea.