Shooting the Smith and Wesson M&P
In the late 1800s, Horace Smith and Daniel Wesson formed a partnership that began a legacy of one of the most widely known firearms companies in the world. Just in case you haven’t had your coffee yet and missed the last names of the company’s founders, I am talking about Smith and Wesson! My first encounter with any S&W firearms were during my youth shooting a Model 65 and Model 686 which were my dad’s duty pistols. These pistols where accurate and reliable, which being a duty pistol, one would hope to be the case! In fact, S&W revolvers have a reputation as being some of the best on the market. When I was 18. My dad gave me my very own S&W Sigma for a home defense pistol. This was a first generation model with a stainless slide and grey receiver. I thought it was the coolest gun ever! This was around the time when Glocks began mainstreaming into law enforcement. Side-by-side, the guns were almost identical, that is until it was range time! The first time I sh