I picked up a M&P 40 that was a former Milwaukee PD gun for $279 a few years ago. It came with 3 mags and night sights that still glowed.
I use it for duty now and it shoots well. I swapped the sights to Ameriglos with the large orange dot front U-notch rear, and put in a new green .40/.357 sig recoil spring, replacing the old blue one they used to use for 9&40. Never had a failure, and recoil is low for a 40. I picked up a spare slide from GT Distributors they had on Gunbroker for $40 to have milled for a dot, just haven’t sent it in yet.
I wish I would’ve bought 2 at the time.
This thread inspired me to put the .40 slide on my CZ SP-01 yesterday and send a few down range. The steel gun mitigates recoil nicely. I recently put a shooting aperture on my glasses and was please to see a crisp sight picture. The aperture also sharpens my red dot, which is the reason I tried it in the first place. While arthritis dictates small doses, I still like the .40.
There are reports that the metal framed M&Ps have improved accuracy over the standard 2.0 models. One user here asserted that the barrel geometry is indeed different possibly contributing to the accuracy improvement.
Do you know if such changes have been incorporated into the current "OR" series?
If anyone shoots M&Ps (and possibly, like myself, has spare M&P parts on hand) CDNN Sports is selling 5” M&P 40 2.0 stripped slides for $50.
I bought one to build up as a project t. I needed a few parts, but I already had an extra barrel and mist parts lying around.