M&P .40 not going to slide lock

[ToddG]

When I first looked at the P30, before even getting the test gun, that was a major concern for me. In fact, gotm4, Failure2Stop, and I played with one at Virginia Arms (dry fire) for a bit.

What has worked for me is using the largest of the left grip panels, which helps both give me more purchase on the gun (more friction = less muzzle flip) and keeps my hands & fingers away from the lever enough to prevent non-slidelock.

[decodeddiesel]

Just to further add to the discussion, this is one of the reason why I really like the thumb safety on my M&P. If I properly ride the safety while firing it completely moves my thumb away from the slide catch, and serves the purpose of forcing a very high hold on the pistol.

[gogetal3]

There is really no solution to this other than practice, I'm afraid, unless you want to go the route of physically modifying the gun.

A very good approach is to establish your proper grip, shoot, and then very slowly & mechanically bring the gun backwards through your draw stroke routine until the gun is in the holster. Then very slowly do a draw, shoot, and go backwards slowly again. Remember, you are essentially re-learning how to grip a pistol.

The key is to go slowly. Most people want to practice and incorporate changes at full speed, but it just doesn't work that way. If I put you in a right-hand drive car, you couldn't go around a track as fast as you can in a left-hand drive car. You'd need to get used to the car a bit first. Same same.

Agreed, I get plenty of trigger time, and dry fire time as well. I was just wondering if anyone had a solution other than that or even if anyone had similar issues, and it infact wasn't the pistol in question. Thanks for the input everyone

[ToddG]

The more common issue with the M&P is a slide stop lever which is too difficult to depress.

Depending on when your gun was manufactured, though, there was a running change about a year ago (very rough timeline) to a stronger spring.