smokey
2A TEACHER
- Jan 31, 2008
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**I rant a bit about my love/hate for the g19, skip to bottom for pictures of +2 extension**
I love my m&p9c and I love my full-size m&p45...but I've always wished S&W would do like glock with the g19 and make something in-between. The m&p45c is just about perfect in size, but it has way less capacity than even the m&p9c. If they made an m&p9 in the m&p45c size with about 15 round capacity, I'd gobble one up.
...but smokey, just get a g19. I know....I know.... I tried. My dad and brother both have a g19 and I've shot them a ton. They just don't work for me. The m&ps fit me better. I have realllllllllly tried to like glocks because I know they're just mechanically great guns. But m&ps aren't slouches and again, they work way better for me in my hands.
So what options do I have?
1) Suck it up, just carry and shoot the m&p9c- This leaves me with 12+1 in a pretty easy to carry gun, but my pinky hangs off the grip if I use the flat base plate. As a result, I usually carry it with the pinky extension baseplate.
2) chop a full-size m&p- I have a bit of a hard-on for chopped guns. The concept of a gun with a full-sized slide, but compact grip is perfect to me. You get the velocity and sight radius of a full-size gun, but the concealability of a compact. For m&p's, that means sending it off to burwell to get the grip chopped. While you CAN get it chopped to a g19ish length with 15 rnd capacity, it requires heavily customized magazines. This means the most practical version is just chopping it to a compact grip length, which really defeats the purpose of doing this over just buying a compact
3) Toss a mec-gar +2 extension on that beyotch- Meh, good enough. Until S&W comes up with a g19 sized m&p9, this is probably the way to go. The mec-gar +2 extension is the same length in the front as the pinky-extension base plate, but you're getting 14+1 instead of 12+1. This gets you close enough to g19 capacity, with juuuust enough grip-length to comfortably get all my fingers on there.
The only real issue is they don't really fit right for the m&p frame. To get mine comfortable, I filled in the two hollow cavities in the front with epoxy, then reshaped it to the m&p grip. 20 minutes with a file and sanding block and it's now good to go. Since the front is mainly the part that prints, it's not an issue to have the extra length behind it on the baseplate (compared to the pinky-extension factory baseplate). Sooo... here's what a 14+1 m&p looks like...
I love my m&p9c and I love my full-size m&p45...but I've always wished S&W would do like glock with the g19 and make something in-between. The m&p45c is just about perfect in size, but it has way less capacity than even the m&p9c. If they made an m&p9 in the m&p45c size with about 15 round capacity, I'd gobble one up.
...but smokey, just get a g19. I know....I know.... I tried. My dad and brother both have a g19 and I've shot them a ton. They just don't work for me. The m&ps fit me better. I have realllllllllly tried to like glocks because I know they're just mechanically great guns. But m&ps aren't slouches and again, they work way better for me in my hands.
So what options do I have?
1) Suck it up, just carry and shoot the m&p9c- This leaves me with 12+1 in a pretty easy to carry gun, but my pinky hangs off the grip if I use the flat base plate. As a result, I usually carry it with the pinky extension baseplate.
2) chop a full-size m&p- I have a bit of a hard-on for chopped guns. The concept of a gun with a full-sized slide, but compact grip is perfect to me. You get the velocity and sight radius of a full-size gun, but the concealability of a compact. For m&p's, that means sending it off to burwell to get the grip chopped. While you CAN get it chopped to a g19ish length with 15 rnd capacity, it requires heavily customized magazines. This means the most practical version is just chopping it to a compact grip length, which really defeats the purpose of doing this over just buying a compact
3) Toss a mec-gar +2 extension on that beyotch- Meh, good enough. Until S&W comes up with a g19 sized m&p9, this is probably the way to go. The mec-gar +2 extension is the same length in the front as the pinky-extension base plate, but you're getting 14+1 instead of 12+1. This gets you close enough to g19 capacity, with juuuust enough grip-length to comfortably get all my fingers on there.
The only real issue is they don't really fit right for the m&p frame. To get mine comfortable, I filled in the two hollow cavities in the front with epoxy, then reshaped it to the m&p grip. 20 minutes with a file and sanding block and it's now good to go. Since the front is mainly the part that prints, it's not an issue to have the extra length behind it on the baseplate (compared to the pinky-extension factory baseplate). Sooo... here's what a 14+1 m&p looks like...
