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UC_Guy 1971

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So I like red dots. So I think I always need a project. So I was looking at my "stuff" and saw that my M&P40 1.0 does not have a red dot. Like a dog spotting a squirrel I started looking up options on putting a red dot on a 1.0 M&P.

Now I have found out that the 9 and 40 slides are identical with the exception of the opening for the barrel. I have also found out that there are a lot of NIB 1.0 9mm slides out there.

I'm not even sure that I like Smith and Wesson; we've had a very antoganistic relationship in the past. I buy them. They malfunction. I send them in for repair. They malfunction again. I send them back again. I put them in my safe to sit until the zombie apocalypse where they will probably function without fail, ...for anyone and everyone else but me. Win-win.

This is what happens when you ship off a CZ slide and the business says, "milling a P-07 slide can take 3 - 4 weeks" and you are halfway past week 3. And after you find that rare 6906 that reminds your of your first duty gun only to find out that there is literally no way to mound a light on it so that project is done.

So now I have a new project. But I have a project to finish; my P-07 slide should be home soon. I will probably have another before I know it.....
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Where was I? Oh yeah. I'm starting a new project. I'm going to build a 9mm slide for my M&P40 1.0. Threaded barrel, red dot sight, tacti-cool iron sights. Should be interesting.
 
More good news. So I decided to put together a 9mm slide for my M&P40 1.0. Buuuuuuuuuuuuutttttt....... I had another project that was delayed due to weather. I had shipped my CZ P-07 slide to Florida to be chopped up for a dot. It was done and made it as far as NC before getting limboed due to what was happening. USPS just texted me its in town and should be in my mailbox tomorrow. 😬

I have two projects. I'm so happy. Fortunately the wife has no idea... Actually she probably doesn't want to know (or care?) why I'm giggling like a school girl as I run to the mailbox.

Maybe I should buy that 4013TSW. I mean who doesn't want a Gen 3 Smith with a light and a dot?
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Or two? Two is a good number.
 
Weeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll......................................... About that 4013 TSW. I didn't get it. Thank goodness I waited. I found another one a week later for more than $100 less ($400). And it needs some TLC. I love it.

So now the red dot for the M&P40 1.0 is on (permanent?) hiatus... ,although the 9mm slide is complete.
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With the 4013 in hand I spent a good chunk of time getting rid of rust (not too much really), dirt, carbon and other build-up.
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I already have a JPoint 2000 mount to replace the rusted rear sight with a red dot. There is an individual on another forum who turns Gen 3 Smith's into works of art and is going to sell me a couple of taller front sights to co-witness with a pending 507K x2. For lighting I am going to mount an Olight PL-2 Mini Valkyrie.

Most of the internals seemed to be solid. The grip was brand new so I am thinking that this thing, to get sold, probably had to have it replaced. The hammer had rust on it, on the exterior but where the pin runs through it. The grip pin was the worst but it cleaned up easily, just like the hammer.

Honestly I think some maintenance was done on it but then it was allowed to sit. I wish I could look up where it went and where it has been. It was definitely a carry gun based off of the exterior polish points, but judging by how some of the scarring is, it might have been a pool gun. Unless it was just issued to someone who carried it for a long, long time and treated it like a rented mule.

I am going to order some parts and see if anyone knows how to polish up an aluminum alloy Gen 3 Smith frame; the beaver tail is all dinged up.
 
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