Disappointed with new M&P 9

[hardluk1]

cutcus-jack Your the one with issues . IF you run it like a M9 you'll have no issues . Is that right or wrong . I had no problems running the model 92 I had 28 or 30 years ago . Decocker on the beretta was never a cause of concern . But then again I find out what a new firearm needs and get on with life . Still just rack the slide . Send it home if you have to so they can make it work for how ever you need it or sell it buy what does fit your needs. Maybe a glock or sig or fn . Nope , cause they also have issues too.

If you really payed attention , all makers have hit and miss issues today . It not like one is gar-ant-teed trouble free . Today's handguns are not hand fit . There full of more or less mass produced parts that can interchange with other models and run 100% 99.0% of the time . HA . So deal with it . If you have a problem call S&W CS people and get it looked in to of you can't figure it out . Sooner or later something will go wrong so buy extra service parts if that's your one and only . Guys have had trigger return spring takes a dump way to early striker spring collapse , poo happens . Its a mechanical tool .

 

[bronconagurski]

Yes, if you use the slide stop to release the slide it will eventually break, mine broke at 60K rounds (although the button broke off on the left side, the right side still worked). Smith sent me a new one (and I bought some spares) and I have a spare in the bag so I'm all ready when I hit the 120K mark. The stop never did fail to lock the slide back after running the mag dry.

Here's a link to the thread that I was doing when the stop button broke off.
http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-m-p-pistols/388083-9mm-core-60k.html

You're my new hero. I haven't shot 60k rounds total on all my guns my whole life. Are you really Hickok45?

 

[Bkreutz]

You're my new hero. I haven't shot 60k rounds total on all my guns my whole life. Are you really Hickok45?

Lots of competitive shooters shoot that much in a year, it takes me about 14 months or so to do 60K. Next year won't be as much, I'm still recovering from hip surgery so my round count has dropped. I am not Hickok45

 

[motorcyclejoe]

If this thread goes on much longer I'm going to have to get me hip boots said the Grey Man....

 

[Tremors]

I watched Larry Vickers show using Slide stop to release the slide or using a his hand to rack the slide so the slide stop moves down so it puts a round in the chamber. I had a LC9 with the situation that it was hard to use the slide stop to release the slide. I kept shooting it and using it started to wear just enough it got easier. I like the wear on my pistols, I believe it makes them more reliable.

 

[Kanewpadle]

I can't believe we're still talking something so trivial. It's a non issue. Move on.

 

[Elliot45]

CavScout 00, sounds like it is pretty much the consensus of the forum that it is a slide stop on a S&W. I can't get mine to budge on my M&P 9mm Pro either. However, I will live with it and had bigger problems with jams until tonight when after a couple of weeks of 3 cleanings and 700 rounds they finally stopped. That being said, on my other 10 semiautomatics the device in question works as a slide release. And on my Springfield XDS it is 10 times easier to release the slide with the "slide" release than trying to rack a bullet into the chamber as it has a very short slide (not much to grip) and an extra strong spring. Anyway, seems too many people are in an uproar about someone just wanting some advice from the forum regarding something we think should work differently. Hope you enjoy your gun as it is. Regards, Jim

 

[kbm6893]

The reason they teach that is due to the M9. Using the slide release can interfere with decocker safties.

Do you have a different name for a decocker? Just want to make surr were on the same page because m&ps dont have one.

Sure you don't have that backwards? The safety on the M9 is on the slide, so pulling the slide to the rear can put the gun back on safe, which is surely something you DONT want if you are trying to reload in combat. I love berettas and while this has never happened to me, it's happened enough to make the G version slide, where the safety functions only as a decocker and snaps back up to fire automatically. Wilson Combat also makes a low profile lever to negate the possibility as well.

Ironically, in an actual reload situation, the slide lock on the Beretta might be a better option.

In the movie Lone Survivor, when the SEAL Axelrod is making his last stand at the end, he is down to using his M9. He reloads and uses his belt against his front sight on the slide to release the slide and chamber the round. Now, I know it's a movie but real SEALs were used to train the actors, including the actual Lone Survivor who inspired the book and movie. They seemed to pay close attention to detail, so I gotta think it might be legit.

I know that's how I was taught in the academy. Either slingshot the slide or use your belt to do it.

 

[N4KVE]

The OP is free to use his gun as he wishes. I believe the uproar is about the OP wanting to send his new gun back to S&W to fix something that isn't broken. GARY

 

[mstem]

Your slide lock or what ever someone want to call it is stiff & needs 2 thumbs to operate it. Well the trigger is so bad on my M&P9 it takes 2 fingers to pull the trigger! The trigger is better on my SKS's than it is on my M&P9!!!

 

[CavScout 00]

I can't believe we're still talking something so trivial. It's a non issue. Move on.

Yep. I was just looking for some more info on my issue. Like I said I trust my life and my families to M&P.

I guess they pass out kool aid that I wasn't invited to drink in these forums (thank God). Thanks to the few that offered acual insight.

I found a fix for people also having this issue check page 1.

Don't worry I won't be back.

A simple issue as you pointed out turned into a stupid *** terminology debate. No wonder our country is in a mess.

 

[ATF]

Cav no one told you to move to another forum they only meant change the subject. At least you have learned one thing. Never buy a gun unless you have tested it first and if you buy it from the internet insist that it may be retuned if it's not to your satisfaction. I have never in my life used the pull back method to release a slide on any semi-auto until this weekend. I had no problem with my M&P but I got the first FTFeed on my P226 ever. The only other issue I've ever had with my P226 is a FTFire and I put that down to a bad primer because it was deeply indented and I also ran the same round through my M&P and it still wouldn't fire. I also read my M&P manual for the first time ever and although they call it a slide lock it says nothing about using it as a slide release. The manual is full of *** covering BS BTW. Send it back to S&W and get it fixed right and you'll be a happy camper. It's all about guns nothing personal

 

[hardluk1]

Well the bottom line is with only a couple minutes on google search you would have found the video for the fix and never had a tread !!

 

[martybee]

I hope this wraps it up!

mb

 

[sheepdawg]

Damm**!! Now you guys have me opening my safe to find the M&P40 Pro. I've had it for four years and never have even used the slide stop as a release. You guys now have me curious.

It works!!! I guess after 3K it ought to. Think I'll go shoot it