r/SmithAndWesson

What’s the opinion on changing out the trigger on a carry gun?

My EDC is an M&P 2.0, wondering what thoughts are in swapping out the trigger for an Overwatch or Apex trigger group.

Would you make that change to a carry gun or leave it stock?

UPDATE: After sending a strongly worded email to every high ranking person at Smith and Wesson that I could find, I got a phone call from someone in the engineering department apologizing for my experience. He asked that I send the gun in and he will personally oversee the situation. Maybe they will make this right?

This has been an ongoing situation. If you need to catch up, feel free to scroll my post history. Basically, I bought an fpc, shot it in very cold weather and was having an issue with the latch not holding the barrel in place. I thought it could be the extreme weather but sent it back to SW for repair anyway. I had a very weird experience with customer service where they would not give me information about what was fixed other than the firing pin being replaced. I got it back and the gun was having the same issue if not worse. I will be sending it back to them, but am worried that I will go through the same process and wait however long it takes only to be returned a broken gun. Spoke with their customer service today to see if they would just take the gun and give me credit towards another purchase but the customer service agent was not into that idea. I have recorded all of my phone calls with them (about 5 total) but don't feel right posting it here unless it becomes something bigger. To sum it up, they keep telling me that since I am not a gun smith, how can I be sure that the firing pin replacement wouldn't fix the latch, and not to believe what I read online. A wild experience. Probably don't buy this gun.

https://reddit.com/link/1tio55f/video/rhz20e5e3b2h1/player

I'm looking at picking up an M&P 45 Shield as a carry gun for on my motorcycle when riding in the back country. I'm a big guy, and waistband holsters aren't really comfortable, so I'm looking at chest holsters. I checked out a few different pistols today and really loved the feel of the S&W. The Springfield Hellcat was a close 2nd but wasn't as comfortable in my hands, but it's super cool that they're optic ready. From what I can tell, you can't buy an optic ready 45 slide, but tons of 9mm? But I can send the slide off to get machined for an optic? The PC version would be great, but you can only get them used now? Sorry if these are dumb questions, I'm a milsurp guy, and I'm looking at getting something modern, haha. Any help/advice is appreciated!