Not Really 8+1

Damn Marv and creating the wants for this.

Thanks to Antifa, Black Lives Matter and the Wu Ping Cough for making the price of the spare Beretta 1951 more than the purchase price of this gun.

Trigger pull is typical M&P, long take up, 7ish pounds of crispish break.

It came from the factory with night-sights, but they've faded as they all do in the past five years.

My Kustom Vette holster works with it!

Both Marv and my guns carry an LEO only sku, 309308 for him and 307508 for me.  Near as we can tell, the LEO sku gets you an extra magazine and no little envelope with spent casings.

Neither had a magazine safety.  Mine came with a thumb safety, his did not.  Mine came with night sights, his did not.  Mine was made on Veteran's Day 2015, his was made just this year on June 30th.

Getting the last round into an M&P 45C magazine is a challenge.

I used an UpLULA.

Getting that fully loaded magazine into the gun with a closed slide is a chore.

There's a lot of pressure on the bottom of the slide, I can't but think that will affect first round reliability if you carry it cocked and locked with 8+1.

I'm reminded of the Wilson Combat 8-round magazines for the 1911.  They were intended for normal 7+1 carry in a 1911, but with the +1 carried in the magazine until it was time to load the gun.

I'm OK with that, but I don't have a GURPS notation for such things beyond a lengthy note.

Update: Yes I do.  Make the shots 8(3) instead of 7+1(3).

It's disappointing, because this is the first modern gun I've owned that balked so hard on carrying the full capacity.

Marv confirms that his is much the same.

I am not sure how this confirmed and committed Colt and Glock fan came to own so many plastic Smith and Wessons.

Perhaps its because S&W knows it's in second or third place with sales and is trying to innovate to improve their standings, thus making guns I want to own.

Perhaps it's happenstance and more complicated.  I'm reasonably certain the M&P 9 Shield got bought instead of a P365 because Palmetto State Armory was selling them for $250.  Half the price of the 365, and it had the thumb safety I demand for my pocket carry.

The M&P 9 full size is because Marv and Harvey out voted me on our standard pistol.  I'd have gone Glock 17.

The M&P 45C... I got it because Marv got one.  He got his because the shop we were at didn't have the Glock 21SF he was interested in.

Isn't the world funny sometimes?