re: Just Bought a M&P .40 This weekend

Congrats on your fine pistol. I own 2 M&Ps (compact, and CORE), my brother owns one (M&P9) and my dad owns one (M&P40 like yours). I guess I could be seen as the resident M&P fanboy here.

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I'm looking at holsters and thinking about getting the Blackhawk serpa. What does the OB think?

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It is a solid holster but I prefer one that has regular retention rather than a button. Then again, I don't carry my defensive handguns outside of my waistband.

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I've read up on the Apex Trigger aluminum trigger kit. Would the OB reccomend installing myself or bringing to a gunsmith?

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Here's my video of the installation. If it looks too difficult, bring it a gunsmith or just to me.

Apex FSS and Trigger install

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I'm also thinking about buying the 9mm barrel and mags for practice, any recommendations on a site to purchase one? It seems like a lot of sites have the barrel out of stock.

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My dad purchased his 9mm barrel from Midway and the 5" 9mm barrel I bought for my CORE came from GunBroker.

If you have seen other M&P40 reviews and such, you know that you don't have to drop $200 on a Storm Lake barrel. A factory S&W 9mm barrel will fit in its 40 counterpart as long as the barrel is the same length (example, 4.25" for yours, 3.5" for a compact, etc.).

If you have any other questions or concerns, peruse my YouTube channel and see the reviews I did of the regular M&P, the CORE, and the Compact. I will be doing a Shield review pretty soon as well.



EDIT: Forgot to let you know that most sites get spare M&P barrels when S&W has a surplus. I would suggest looking on auction sites for one.