M&P 22Compact Rear sight

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I had My Compact since Sept. My rear sight blade flew off at the ranch, call up Smith ask for the rear sight blade, they request me to send the Compact to repair, It took 32 day door to door to return back. After I got it back head up to the ranch to shoot readjust my rear sight, End up striping the adjustment key, Take a close up look, they put Loctite on the windage screw.

Call up Smith again, and tell what happen to it, They send me another FedEx label to send back, 33 days later, I got the Compact back, They replace the whole rear sight.Head up to the ranch and shoot, again the rear sight blade flew off, Lucky me this time it took 15 min to find the sight blade, and assembly back to the sight housing, So I rack the slide few time and see the windage screw walking out.


Call up Smith again, they ask me to send it back again, I ask them , Can send me the sight, I will do my own. They said the Compact is too new, don't have extra part.

I must be bad luck with .22 Compact.

Do you guys have same Issue with the rear sight on the Compact?
 
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I haven't adjusted mine as I thought they were pretty darned good straight up, out of the box.

I love my M&P 22 Compact... I had really wanted a Walther PPK/S .22LR and/or a Colt Rail Gun 1911 FDE .22LR ... but I lucked into a M&P 22 Compact , and couldn't say no... and man oh man I am happy with my purchase! In fact I just got back from my property (where we will be building a house, just cleared 3 of the 30 acres for making the homestead and yard for the Aussie Cattle Dog...) and I like to carry my M&P22C w/ my Shield 9mm. ... Shield for intruders of the 2-legged variety and M&P22C for close encounters of the reptilian / mammalian/small game kind.
 
I do see some people having problem with the rear sight, Hope some company comes out after market sight set.
 
The SAME thing happened to me. I got my 22 compact on 2/20, and on 2/21 fired 400 rounds through it. After about 100 rounds the rear blade was gone and the adjustment screw was 95% backed out. There was hardly any resistance holding it in.

I wish that were the least of the issues. While it functioned flawlessly, there was heavy, and I mean heavy leading, caked on, pouring out the muzzle, so bad that at 7yds I shot my target stand furring strip, which was 8'' from point of aim.

I looked up the issue, and it is all too common with the M&P 22 pistols, it seems they have not fixed this poor QC issue with the Compact either. If you shine a light up the breech end you can see the last 1/3'' of the muzzle end has terrible tooling marks in the rifling. This is what causes lead to pile up and ruins accuracy, and requires a dreadful cleaning process after each range session. Please don't tell me ''its the ammo you're shooting, copper plated stuff won't do that''. If the barrel was finished properly this should not happen regardless of ammo. I've shot 22lr for nearly 30 years and shot thousands of rounds and this has NEVER happened, regardless of bulk ammo. Smith is really letting their QC go downhill in an attempt to get things out there and compete with other companies in a timely manner. Some of these firearms never should have left the factory. If a novice gunsmith like myself can see clear as day tooling marks in the last 1/3'' of the barrel, then Smith should have scrapped the barrel and replaced it with another.

Now I'm going to have to send my brand new gun back for a rear sight, that should be mailed to me free of charge, and a barrel swap. It will probably take 30+ days, and I will be out of my new purchase and money. One M&P 22 owner sent his back, and it took 2 months, and when getting it back the ''new'' barrel had the exact same problem.

As much as I like the M&P model of pistols, I will stick to Glock, Ruger, and others for the larger calibers. I am very disappointed with Smith on this one. If I was the only one with these issues it would be understandable, but this has been happening for the past few years, and they are NOT fixing it in current production
 
Same here........bought the 22 C Sat morning, buy Sat PM the rear 2-dot blade was gone. Back to S&W Monday AM. Will see what happens in a month or so I guess.
 
sojourner said:
The SAME thing happened to me. I got my 22 compact on 2/20, and on 2/21 fired 400 rounds through it. After about 100 rounds the rear blade was gone and the adjustment screw was 95% backed out. There was hardly any resistance holding it in.

I wish that were the least of the issues. While it functioned flawlessly, there was heavy, and I mean heavy leading, caked on, pouring out the muzzle, so bad that at 7yds I shot my target stand furring strip, which was 8'' from point of aim.

I looked up the issue, and it is all too common with the M&P 22 pistols, it seems they have not fixed this poor QC issue with the Compact either. If you shine a light up the breech end you can see the last 1/3'' of the muzzle end has terrible tooling marks in the rifling. This is what causes lead to pile up and ruins accuracy, and requires a dreadful cleaning process after each range session. Please don't tell me ''its the ammo you're shooting, copper plated stuff won't do that''. If the barrel was finished properly this should not happen regardless of ammo. I've shot 22lr for nearly 30 years and shot thousands of rounds and this has NEVER happened, regardless of bulk ammo. Smith is really letting their QC go downhill in an attempt to get things out there and compete with other companies in a timely manner. Some of these firearms never should have left the factory. If a novice gunsmith like myself can see clear as day tooling marks in the last 1/3'' of the barrel, then Smith should have scrapped the barrel and replaced it with another.

Now I'm going to have to send my brand new gun back for a rear sight, that should be mailed to me free of charge, and a barrel swap. It will probably take 30+ days, and I will be out of my new purchase and money. One M&P 22 owner sent his back, and it took 2 months, and when getting it back the ''new'' barrel had the exact same problem.

As much as I like the M&P model of pistols, I will stick to Glock, Ruger, and others for the larger calibers. I am very disappointed with Smith on this one. If I was the only one with these issues it would be understandable, but this has been happening for the past few years, and they are NOT fixing it in current production
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I though I'm the only one bad luck with the sight, I had send 3 time to Smith for same Issue. The last time they replace the new sight. I put Loctite on the sight, but try to adjust for windage. No luck on that. The rear sight is plastic and the adjustment screw is steel. How stupid is that from Smith. ( I GIVE UP ) I love the feel the grip and size. I have to wait for some company come out after market parts, sight, barrel..
 
Does anyone know where I can purchase aftermarket sights for my m&p 22 compact? My flew off after 300 rounds.
 
There is another thread on the aftermarket sight issue or lack thereof.

I didn't have a problem with the sights but unfortunately the pistol is at smith as I type for the barrel repair. Mine started clogging heavily with lead at less than 200 rounds.

My SIL bought the exact same pistol because my wife bought one go figure. They took it to the range less than a week ago and within 100 rounds it was keyholing the target paper. Same problem, flaky lead at the end of the barrel and all it saw was CCI mini-mags. It was sent from the range to Smith.

In spite of the obvious barrel issues (and evidently sights) I simply love the pistol and would buy another.

Life long machinist by trade, if I bought a new one I would probably deburr the bore with a mild bristle round wire brush in a drill motor, alternating rotation directions before I attempted to shoot it. Maybe lightly crown the exit too.

If the screws back off in the sights, completely safe to use blue locktite. If you ever need to remove the screw heat it up with a 30W soldering iron first it will come right out no problem. Unless the sights are plastic LOL I didn't look at them very closely.

After reading this thread I will locktite my wifes and my SIL's compact before either of them go to the range again. If they ever get it back, mine has been gone for 3 weeks now.
 
I haven't had any issues with mine but I'm hoping to find a replacement set similar to the warren tactical sights I have on my glock (black rear/fiber front).
 
I contacted Dawson precision and he said they would be willing to make me sights if I would send them my slide. I assume once they made a set for someone they would be able to make more. I am not ready to get sights yet but if someone else is they said it would be about 4 weeks to make the sights.
 
I lost my rear sight blade too. S&W was nice enough to send me the blade, spring, and screw.

My question in what order is it assembled? Should I put the spring in, then the blade, followed by the screw? Or blade, spring, screw?
 
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