M&P 380 Shield EZ
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 8:06 pm
Picked one up this weekend. I had been looking for something as the "next step" up from .22 for new shooters. While the recoil is slightly more than .22, it's a lot less than any of the other choices I had.
I got the no external safety model as I prefer those. The trigger pull is relatively short and light to me, but I am use to heavy triggers. This is a hammer fired gun, which I prefer as then I can put my thumb on the hammer when holstering and be assured the gun can't fire. The EZ hammer is internal but a backstrap safety provides the same function on the EZ.
One thing I hadn't considered was that when you grip the backstrap coming out of the holster you have a light trigger and no safety. I could see this as an issue if a careless person put it in a purse where keys and other things could get in the trigger. But they shouldn't be doing that anyway. It also comes in an ambi external safety model if wanted.
I had a few odd quirks about midway throught 100 rounds, such as stovepipes (fail to feed) and completly new to me, ejecting the spent round and the next one from the magazine at the same time. It seemed to be only an issue with one magazine, but by the time I was narrowing it down it went away.
I asked the LGS if they were popular. He had gotten 18 in on Monday and was down to 2 by Saturday morning. It may have just been people wanting an easy to rack and easy to load pistol in a low recoil center fire caliber, which this is as easy as an M&P .22 to manipulate. I have the full size in 22, but the M&P compact 22 would be a good companion if you shot a lot.
380 gets expensive. Everyone else seemed to be buying AR mags.
I got the no external safety model as I prefer those. The trigger pull is relatively short and light to me, but I am use to heavy triggers. This is a hammer fired gun, which I prefer as then I can put my thumb on the hammer when holstering and be assured the gun can't fire. The EZ hammer is internal but a backstrap safety provides the same function on the EZ.
One thing I hadn't considered was that when you grip the backstrap coming out of the holster you have a light trigger and no safety. I could see this as an issue if a careless person put it in a purse where keys and other things could get in the trigger. But they shouldn't be doing that anyway. It also comes in an ambi external safety model if wanted.
I had a few odd quirks about midway throught 100 rounds, such as stovepipes (fail to feed) and completly new to me, ejecting the spent round and the next one from the magazine at the same time. It seemed to be only an issue with one magazine, but by the time I was narrowing it down it went away.
I asked the LGS if they were popular. He had gotten 18 in on Monday and was down to 2 by Saturday morning. It may have just been people wanting an easy to rack and easy to load pistol in a low recoil center fire caliber, which this is as easy as an M&P .22 to manipulate. I have the full size in 22, but the M&P compact 22 would be a good companion if you shot a lot.
380 gets expensive. Everyone else seemed to be buying AR mags.