Bought myself a new S&W yesterday.

[drifter2be]

Since moving I've decided to change my school of thought pertaining to a home defense pistol. I relied on my 1911 for quite a while now, thinking that 8+1 rounds of .45 was better than 10 rounds of the smaller 9mm, since I was limited to just 10+1 rounds by CA law.

Walked into a store yesterday and walked out with this beauty.

17+1 rounds of 9mm goodness. No stupid mag safeties or ugly loaded chamber indicators on her, just a slightly scalloped away peep hole at the rear of the chamber to visually check for a round without doing a press check.

Extremely satisfied with the pistol, the last experience I had with a S&W semi-auto pistol was a Sigma and it left a rather bad taste in my mouth between quality and the horrible trigger. I made sure to shoot one of these before making my purchase and this was definitely a completely different beast. The trigger take up feels slightly gritty but the break is nice and crisp with not too much over-travel and a nice short reset, at least it feels short compared to all my DAO carry pistols that have long resets.

All that is left for now is to get a set of night sights and possibly throw a light on the rail. Sleeping much better at night knowing this is in the night stand.

[BajaJames83]

Very nice. Enjoy!

[voiceofreason]

Throw on a set of Heinie Ledge Straight Eight night sights.

Expensive, but worth it IMO.

I'd add a bit more and have them widen the rear notch as well to .156" if they don't have a model with one as wide.

The ledge feature alone is SO worth it!

Shooting at night with the 2 dots is so much easier than the 3 dot configurations I used to run. Including the different color set I had.

[SanPedroShooter]

I use Big Dots which is the same principle I think. Put that big ol' white golf ball center mass and pull the trigger.

Them's fighting sights.

http://xssights.com/index.php?nID=sights&cID=Sights&pID=sights&sID=handgun

[psango]

Nice pistol! +1 on Heinie sights.

[bsg]

congratulations.

[drifter2be]

Throw on a set of Heinie Ledge Straight Eight night sights.

Expensive, but worth it IMO.

I'd add a bit more and have them widen the rear notch as well to .156" if they don't have a model with one as wide.

The ledge feature alone is SO worth it!

Shooting at night with the 2 dots is so much easier than the 3 dot configurations I used to run. Including the different color set I had.

Thanks for that, after looking them up I think I found my night sights. I like that they make them with the ledge, I was thinking I was going to have to sacrifice that feature if I changed out the factory sights. I do like the 2 dot setup over 3 dots. It looks like it would make aligning the sights a little faster.

Brownell has them for $148, but they are on back order.

[Sakiri]

Do want.

Grats on the gorgeous piece. May she serve you well.

[InGrAM]

Great choice.

[drifter2be]

Got to the range earlier today, playing with all the new toys, KelTec P32 and P11, Ruger LCP and my M&P9.

Did notice that with my target out at "self defense distance"(21 feet) that if I put my front sight right over the bullseye the point of impact was consistently 3" underneath the bullseye. Not too worried, if it were a defensive situation I would aim for the chest and still get center-mass, but is that typical for an M&P? With my KT P-11 at the same distance I would put the front post over the bullseye and I would be hitting the bullseye.

Was shooting 115gr PMC bronze out of both guns, if that info helps.