SEMI DROP-IN BARRELS FOR S&W M&P Reviews & Ratings

I replaced the stock Barrel on my M&P Pro CORE that had about 6000 rounds through it. I used to shoot action pistol competitively but now I am just a once a week range shooter. I thought a was just becoming a worse shot, but my other M&P handguns with WAY less rounds were still accurate so I decided to give this a try. It fixed my accuracy issues. I thought that i had gotten lucky with the "drop in" as no work had to be done on the sides of the barrel at all. It dropped right in nice and tight. But man i had to remove a ton of material from the bottom "shoe" of the barrel to get it so that I could operate the slide reliably. I then took it to the range and after it warmed up I was still having issues so I had to remove more material, but it was accurate for sure. If you can shoot a handgun with any basic amount of skill you can get 1" groups at ten yards easily with this barrel. Overall, accuracy improvement alone gets 5+ stars, although mine was a bit more difficult to fit than some of the others i think.

If you own a older M&P 9 that shoots a group of rounds that looks like you took your shotgun to the range (like mine did) you need this upgrade. Simple fit . My M&P 9 was a scatter gun . Only fired about 200 rounds through the useless piece of junk because you could NOT hit anything with it . Shooting from 10 yrds. thought I was shooting a Jennings .22 Auto instead of a Smith. Installed this barrel and BANG !!!!! Watch Video from their web site then you will understand. This is the most accurate auto pistol now it is almost UNBELIEVABLE how it shoots . THANKS APEX !!!!!!!

This is an outstanding barrel. If you need accuracy this is the barrel. First time out, shot a one hole group at 10 yards, the S&W barrel never did that. Thanks APEX and thank you Brownells for great pricing and fast service. The Iceman

Had 55,000 through the stock barrel. That gave me a good idea of what the gun was capable of. Fitting took an hour or so because I'm a bit OCD. Fitted it a bit on the tight side as taking more off later was still a possibilty. I'm running a 13# spring though Apex recommends the stock 15# so lube is almost generous. After a few mags to test reliability and warm up, I shot a 10 round group from 25 yards standing 1.25" wide by 3" high. Had called 2 fliers but still couldn't believe the group this barrel shot. I've always had better accuracy results with FMJ's and use 124 gr loaded with 3.8 gr of TiteGroup. 500 rounds later & still very impressed.

I have a S&W, M&P CORE with a 5" barrel that I've been wanting to like, but just couldn't get it to shoot well. I installed the semi drop-in barrel in my CORE and had positive results.The barrel did not require fitting to the slide or locking block, and upon installation required less than 2lbs of pressure to close the slide into battery. I had some hand loaded 9mm with projectiles from two brands and shot them side by side against the factory barrel at 15 meters. I fired six rounds on each target and discounted any called fliers and measured the remaining five round group. Brand A measured 1.972" with the factory barrel, and 1.168" from the Apex. Brand B measured 2.535" from the factory barrel and 1.837" from the Apex, although the target would suggest I flinched and opened that group up. I called one flier high left, but didn't call the other so I measured the remaining five rounds as a group. Regardless, the Apex improved Brand A's group 40% and Brand B's 27%.

Friends Out there that has a M&P and are grouping in the Target at 10 and 15 yards by hand look like Mozzarella Cheese! Well I Know how you feel by the end of the day and your thinking to buy a better Gun? Right "ahahha" I Will tell you guys that this Barrel is the best consolation out there Once I fit this Barrel to My pistol and went back to the range to tested forget the better gun this is now better than My 22 . 100 % Guaranty . Make you feel like I did it correctly at the end . If you Know What I Mean .