Well, I FINALLY got out to the range with the M&P again. It is pictured in this thread:
http://mp-pistol.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=2883
I took the full size 9 with the 10-8/Burwell gold bead and my compact 9 with factory white dots.
Indoor range with your standard dim lighting.
200 rounds (WWB) with one failure to extract at about the halfway point.
The gold bead was extremely easy to track, even in the reduced light. This is one of the first sights I've ever been able to track through the entire slide cycle. The flat black rear sight had no distracting dots to trick my eyes into focusing on.
All in all, MUCH better than the three white dots in this light.
Now, about that failure to extract. Halfway through a magazine I went to pull the trigger and got nothing. Noticed the slide was back even though I was nowhere near slide lock. Stopped, looked and saw the following:
The fired shell casing was half-way out of the chamber. The slide/extractor had apparently let loose of it at that point, then continued it's cycle rearward and begun to return. It then started to strip a fresh round from the magazine, wedging it under the fired brass.
The proper remedy for this would have been: 1. pull slide to the rear and lock it. 2. Dump out fired brass. 3. release slide.
HOWEVER, being the doofus that I am, I first tried to remove the magazine which was very difficult because the top round was already on it's way up the feed ramp. So I pulled down on the magazine and the feedramp cammed the round back into the magazine. Magazine came out, slide dropped forward by itself, taking the fired case back into the chamber. THEN I racked the slide, ejecting the fired case.
Don't be dumb like me...
http://mp-pistol.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=2883
I took the full size 9 with the 10-8/Burwell gold bead and my compact 9 with factory white dots.
Indoor range with your standard dim lighting.
200 rounds (WWB) with one failure to extract at about the halfway point.
The gold bead was extremely easy to track, even in the reduced light. This is one of the first sights I've ever been able to track through the entire slide cycle. The flat black rear sight had no distracting dots to trick my eyes into focusing on.
All in all, MUCH better than the three white dots in this light.
Now, about that failure to extract. Halfway through a magazine I went to pull the trigger and got nothing. Noticed the slide was back even though I was nowhere near slide lock. Stopped, looked and saw the following:
The fired shell casing was half-way out of the chamber. The slide/extractor had apparently let loose of it at that point, then continued it's cycle rearward and begun to return. It then started to strip a fresh round from the magazine, wedging it under the fired brass.
The proper remedy for this would have been: 1. pull slide to the rear and lock it. 2. Dump out fired brass. 3. release slide.
HOWEVER, being the doofus that I am, I first tried to remove the magazine which was very difficult because the top round was already on it's way up the feed ramp. So I pulled down on the magazine and the feedramp cammed the round back into the magazine. Magazine came out, slide dropped forward by itself, taking the fired case back into the chamber. THEN I racked the slide, ejecting the fired case.
Don't be dumb like me...