S&W M&P 2.0 Compact Pistol Review

the mep 2.0 compact let's check it out [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Gazza get a lot of requests to review different firearms and when I get a lot of requests for one particular gun I start to really take a look at it and here lately I've gotten just a ton of requests to review the Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0 compact this is just a great medium sized firearm now one thing that's funny about Smith & Wesson is they've always had the standard MMP for a number of years I think it's been about 12 years and then they have the subcompact size they never got into that in-between size and guys the model 19 Glock has really been king of that perfect size for a full size gun feel and yet something you could carry every day so I got in touch with Nate at gun Pro deals.com and told him I was really looking to review one of these pistols and he was more than happy to send it over for this test & Evaluation and I want to thank gun Pro deals for being one of the sponsors of the channel the funny thing is is I ended up just buying this pistol from gun Pro deals because this is a really great design from Smith & Wesson and there are a lot of cool features we're going to take a look at the Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0 compact that is a mouthful and this is the 9 millimeter version it does also come in a 40 caliber and it also comes in a frame mounted safety right here if you want that option with either 9 millimeter or 40 with the 15 rounds for the 9 millimeter 13 rounds for 40 we're gonna go ahead and take a look at make sure the gun isn't loaded drop the magazine check the chamber and the gun is empty we do have two 15 round magazines as I mentioned these are steel magazines they have a nice polymer base plate and they have the gray followers we're gonna go ahead and insert it as well just to go ahead and show some of the features now this is a coarse polymer frame pistol the slide is a stainless steel slide and it has an armored right finish on it which you know there's some kind of tenifer type finish or nitride finish it's really smooth your smith & wesson does a great job all the laser engrave cuts are very clean which is typical and it just it just has a nice Sheen to it a matte finish one of the big things about that they've upgraded is their grip and as you see it's it's a pretty aggressive texturing much more so than the original Smith & Wesson in fact it is fairly aggressive just to be upfront with you this really helps at the range it makes this gun very easy to grab hold of and to hold on to but if you're going to conceal carry it especially without some kind of undershirt on it can be very aggressive in fact it's really uncomfortable of course we have our magazine release right here and this is switchable to the other side if you're lefty and then of course it does not have a magazine disconnect which I love unless you're in law enforcement and I can definitely understand why you would want it then but it has the access type trigger system which is a pivoting arm a little bit different than a lot of the polymer striker fire pistols you can see that as you turn it you that little block just relieves itself into the trigger the trigger has been improved and we're going to take a little bit closer look at that in a minute but the original MPs the trigger is has always been just it's been not that great just to be honest and there are a lot of extra triggers out there but to me this actually is doable so you know again we're gonna look at that in a minute now we have our slide release or our slide stop right here it's pretty minimal and we also have it on the other side we have our disassembly lever right here and we'll look at that in a minute and then of course a Picatinny rail at the front with three slots I really like that that's going to give you a wide range of different lasers and lights to be able to use on this handgun the trigger guard is ample and it is rounded off one thing that I do like about Smith & Wesson handguns especially on the MEP series are the serrations they have kind of a scale type serration and when you grab it it really grabs into your finger I mean you can feel how easy it is to pull back and really to be honest with you it has a really good look to it here on the front they have some partial serrations right here this is not really made to rack the slide it's really made for press checks I mean that is the reason it's there so it's going to be fairly difficult to the slide like that but it can be done the recessed area right here in the slide makes it nice gives it kind of a tapered more of a tapered feel to it and then here at the front is kind of beveled off now right through here in these little pockets you can see metal underneath we're gonna look at that a little bit more in just a second but this is a rail chassis that fits inside it gives it more strength it gives the polymer less flex and it's not gonna warp as much I mean it's especially when firing and this is a big plus for the Smith & Wesson M&P the barrel is four inches and it is a stainless steel barrel with an armored ight finish as well just like the slide now you can see your sights dovetailed in the front and in the back kind of a novak style low profile sights there are three dot variety and then you can see the front but these sights are very visible at the range with the white dots I really like this sight set up of course you can see the text ring on the back slide plate the barrel does have a crown so that's going to protect the muzzle and of course the front of the slide is just flat now as I mentioned the slide stop is ambidextrous we're going to go ahead and bring it back and lock it into place on this side it can be a little more difficult to drop the slide I'm gonna go ahead and put a dummy round in here just to kind of test it not just against the magazine follower but you can tell there there it goes but it is a little bit more force that's needed to be able to drop it now it does come in a nice solid box and with the gun you get four separate back straps now I really like that feature because it gives you a lot of different options to go with on the very back here it's actually marked what size this is the medium on here is the small and then we have a medium large and then we have a large these are very easy to change out and I'm going to show you how to do it of course the magazines out and make sure this gun is unloaded you just turn this little tab right here and then pull this out this is actually a tool as well to use for disassembly and I'll show you that then your back strap just comes right off now there is a small cavity in the back which response here but there's a small lip here at the top that fits up into the pistol and so as you're putting it in you're going to have to get that lip in first and then we just bring it right here into place now the small tool just fits and it can go either way one thing I found is is you've really got to push it up and connect it there we go to be able to get it into place once you change these grips out just making sure your grip is in solid now the larger grips it's a little bit tighter when you're putting it in I just replace the small one and it was much easier to get into place so just a side note now included are two spacers that actually fit a full-sized magazine so here we have a full-sized MP this is an older type magazine but they're still interchangeable just slide it over Nestle it into place now you have a 17 round magazine in the compact one thing about this is it's really important is to use that spacer because if not you can actually overextend your magazine then it can cause malfunctions now of course one of the big things to look at is the Glock 19 compared to the Smith & Wesson 2.0 compact that's really what to me Smith & Wesson was trying to achieve is to get that good size that perfect size for concealed carry and as a range gun so we're gonna take a look just briefly at a couple of the dimensions that are different really you know you guys know a lot already about Glock & Smith & Wesson we will be going into more detail later but I just want to show you the direct dimensions of which one is larger and where it's larger as far as the grip length they're pretty much identical now as far as the slide length the Smith & Wesson M&P is just a touch longer one of the things that's kind of illusion is the barrel sticks out just a little bit on the Glock whereas on the Smith & Wesson M&P it does not so it's really probably about less than a quarter of an inch difference now here we have a lineup of comparable compact pistols the Glock 19 is the smallest the Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0 is next then we have the Sig this is the P 320 this is the compact size and as you can see it's just a touch longer then your Smith & Wesson the cz P 10 see again about the exactly the same size as your sig p320 then we have the canik tp9 SF elite which is just a little bit taller than the rest guys there's really not a lot of difference between the Glock and mechanic but every little bit counts when you're concealed carrying at the range it really doesn't matter now we're going to get into more in depth in a future video with comparing these two pistols but one of the things I do want to point out is the Glock model 19 gen5 weighs 24 ounces exactly while the smith and wesson 2.0 compact weighs twenty six point eight one of the big reasons for that is the stainless steel insert rail insert here which is going to give you more strength so just something to note and the overall length is 7.3 inches now we're going to take a look at the triggers the gun has been safety-checked so we're gonna pull the trigger back it's pretty smooth up front and then you hit feels like some the trigger bar is we're getting a little bit of abrasion somewhere you can hear it right about there and then we hit the wall and then we have the snap it's not a super crisp snap but this is definitely better than the original M&P really the trigger itself is not all that great but definitely an improvement over the original as far as reset it's audible and tactile and it's right about there and we have a nice clean break as far as trigger pull weight five pounds three ounces [Music] five pounds seven ounces five pounds 3.5 ounces want to think freedom you nisshin's for sponsoring the mo you get a 5% discount using suits here's zero at freedom munitions comm one thing I will say about these magazines they're a little stiff this is the first time I've loaded them and I had read one place where they said there was a lot more difficult to load than Glock mags and that is true so guys as soon as I picked up the pistol I got home went down to the range and went ahead and put this gun through its paces I had heard already so much about this pistol and again with all the requests to do the review I was really looking forward to finding out what the big uproar was about and guys I'm going to tell you a couple of things the grip is that rough textured grip and it's great at the range I mean you really feel like you've got a great grip on the handgun and again it shoots just like a full-size pistol because honestly it's it's pretty much a full sized pistol and it gives you a good gripping surface I love the grip angle with the the way they've got that 18 degree grip angle it makes it a very natural feeling gun the ergonomics is just it really fits just right in the hand getting those follow-up shots was really easy the sights they show up very well - just regular white three dot sights but there's something about that sight picture that really makes it excellent for accuracy [Applause] [Applause] now I had zero malfunctions just not any trouble I actually went down the first time and shot quite a bit of footage and my cameras for some reason we're out of focus and I ended up having to go about an hour later and reshoot most of the footage so I actually put about 600 rounds through this pistol while I was down there and I'll tell you what guys I probably could have shot another 400 rounds with no problem this is a just a joy to shoot I love the point ability of the handgun and you know guys if you've shot a lot of Smith & Wesson M&P s they're just very suitable handguns and this one actually has some advantages to it the triggers a little better again the grip is just a little more easy to get that this even brings it up a notch now we're gonna disassemble the firearm drop the magazine check the chamber and the gun is empty you wanna go ahead bring your slide all the way back and engage your slide stop right here's your takedown lever just bring it into the down position now you don't have to pull the trigger to disassemble this firearm in fact there's a lever and you'll see that it's actually painted green now according to Smith & Wesson you can use a small screwdriver or the tool provided that holds your grip into place and that's what you really use to drop this little lever down and then we disengage our slide stop and we can pull the slide right off now you can also pull the trigger but that's not recommended by Smith & Wesson and remove our recoil spring and guide rod it is a stainless steel guide rod with a flat recoil spring guys this definitely helps with felt recoil bring back our barrel and again it is a stainless steel barrel and we have our slide and that's all you need to do to field-strip the pistol but one big plus for the pistol this sleeve that's actually embedded into the polymer you can't get to it from the inside or the just the outside right here where these little windows are to see it and actually the serial numbers right there on that window the sleeve inside the frame is to help give you some rigidity it's going to keep it from flexing especially when firing the pistol and the slide rails are really long I like that this gives you a little more slide rail than especially your Glock here at the back there fairly abbreviated reassembly in reverse order just take your barrel get into place your recoil spring and guide rod we're gonna slide the slide over the rails and engage our slide stop now you don't have to mess with this lever because the magazine automatically returns the lever into the right position then we're going to return our takedown lever release our slide stop and we're back in business as far as the price the MSRP on the Smith & Wesson 2.0 compact is five hundred and sixty nine dollars on the gun Pro deals website they're selling it for four sixty seven ninety nine that's about a hundred dollars less than the Glock gin.5 I've seen them anywhere from around the five fifty plus to five seventy range and guys I'll have the gun Pro deals linked to the Smith & Wesson 2.0 compact down in the description alright let's talk about the pros and cons of the pistol and just some of my thoughts on it first off I love the ergonomics it just fits in the hand very well you know most of your guns nowadays there's a lot of studies being done to allow these to fit and it's going to appeal to certain people and maybe not appeal to others but I think overall most people will agree that the Smith & Wesson M&P line is really ergonomic the rough texturing on the grip gives you a good solid feel when you're firing it allows you to really have some confidence when shooting the gun having the four back straps will allow you to place it in the right spot for you it does have about an 18 degree grip angle which really to me fits most people as far as their natural point vayne the trigger while it is better than the original trigger so I'm glad they made some upgrades there the the fit and finish of course on the Smith & Wesson is always excellent the three dot sights I'll have to say that and of course with the accuracy you saw what we were capable of but they were very easy to pick up they're just bright they're spaced in the right way I really like it you know the thinness of the gun is nice it gets really close to where the Glock is which to me is I deal with the ambidextrous slide release you know that gives you an extra feature and you can move the magazine release to a different place I like the extended Picatinny rail with the three slots gives you a lot more options overall this gun is extremely pleasurable to shoot and definitely a winner hands down now some of the the cons that we have is for one thing the texturing while I like it while shooting I don't like it inside the pants holster a lot of times I'll just wear a t-shirt so this can get on your bare skin and I'll tell you guys it's rough some guys are already talking about maybe you know sanding that down a little bit or you know taking off the edge but I would highly recommend if you're going to carry this concealed that you have some kind of undershirt under it now as far as the slide release on that other side that's one con just because it's very difficult especially if you're a left-handed shooter you're going to have a little more trouble hitting that slide release but I'll tell you guys other than that I think that this pistol is definitely a 9 out of 10 as far as what Smith & Wesson has put together and one of the things I always try to say is you know guys don't just watch one review to make a purchase look at different reviews get a well-rounded perspective of the firearm before you make a purchase because a lot of people this will be the firearm that defends their life and one thing I do want to say too is a lot of times down in the comments I get you know SOOC only says positive things about any product guys I always put pros and cons in my video so get over it and you know what this gun I will give it a big thumbs way up because it's a great pistol now guys again I want to thank gun Pro deals calm for sending the pistol and for their support of the channel it's really been great especially with all the YouTube de monetizing videos and just all the turmoil that's going on it's really great to have some support from the industry what I really love is is that the gun Pro deals doesn't have any link to Smith & Wesson whatever you know we review they don't tell me what to review so it makes it nice just to be able to tell you exactly what I think and that's what I've done be strong be of good courage god bless america long live the Republic [Music] of course the texturing on the base works you can see the back texturing on the backs works you can see this in guys to be and guys honestly and honestly the larger now the larger one thing also they offer are these little and so I knew that this would be a great gun you do have some barrel protruding out of on the Glock you do have a little bit of the barrel protrusion on the Glock the barrel is protruding Pitou ting thick barrel is protruding on the Block on the Glock the barrel does protrude and then we're gonna bring the pistol we're gonna release our then we're gonna go ahead and push our slides it you guys I'll have the link and guys I'll have the direct link to the guys I'll have the direct link on guys I'll have the that in a second [Music] [Music] you

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Rating: 4.9136462 out of 5

Keywords: Sootch00, Sootch, Review, Smith & Wesson, S&W, M&P, 2.0, Compact, 9mm, 40 S&W, 40 Caliber, Pistol, carry, Glock 19, G19, Model 19, EDC, Concealed Carry, Range, accuracy, Disassemble, Field Strip, New, Shield

Id: 5EPec5j2d7w

Length: 22min 18sec (1338 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 27 2017