Anyone else experience this problem?
I have a 3-week old M&P9 Spec Ops - a 4.75" barrel in a 4" slide/frame. Here's my problem - after rapid firing (1 second between shots) a couple clips, the pistol will heat up a bit and the slide will lock in the closed position. Worse, this is with a live round in the chamber - and yet the hammer is not reset, so you can't even fire the "jammed" round, nor can you open the slide to eject the round. When I say locked up, I mean that a full sized 230-pound man cannot pull the slide back, period. This has happened four different times. In order to get the slide open, I have found that setting it down and letting it cool allows me to open it normally. It is not a situation of slowly being able to grind it open, it's either opened or locked shut and can't be opened. I've torn it down twice and cleaned and oiled it, and still the problem goes on. Of course the time I took it back to the dealer and let him look at it, he tore it down, oiled it, and then shot 150 rounds through it with no jamming. So now I shoot two 17 round clips through it, and one of the last rounds in the second clip locks it shut again, same problem. The RSO has banned my gun from the range and labeled it unsafe.
I called S&W and they are sending me a call tag for my pistol. The guy on the Customer Service line thought it was a weird problem too!
Ammo used was Remington UMC.
I have a 3-week old M&P9 Spec Ops - a 4.75" barrel in a 4" slide/frame. Here's my problem - after rapid firing (1 second between shots) a couple clips, the pistol will heat up a bit and the slide will lock in the closed position. Worse, this is with a live round in the chamber - and yet the hammer is not reset, so you can't even fire the "jammed" round, nor can you open the slide to eject the round. When I say locked up, I mean that a full sized 230-pound man cannot pull the slide back, period. This has happened four different times. In order to get the slide open, I have found that setting it down and letting it cool allows me to open it normally. It is not a situation of slowly being able to grind it open, it's either opened or locked shut and can't be opened. I've torn it down twice and cleaned and oiled it, and still the problem goes on. Of course the time I took it back to the dealer and let him look at it, he tore it down, oiled it, and then shot 150 rounds through it with no jamming. So now I shoot two 17 round clips through it, and one of the last rounds in the second clip locks it shut again, same problem. The RSO has banned my gun from the range and labeled it unsafe.
I called S&W and they are sending me a call tag for my pistol. The guy on the Customer Service line thought it was a weird problem too!
Ammo used was Remington UMC.
