Paper Clip
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Hey all,
I am a brand new member on this forum, although I have enjoyed reading some of the threads here for a while. It is very useful to have opinions on just about any S&W firearm at your fingertips with a quick google search, and this place is always one of the first ones to pop up. I am a member on a couple of other forums. I am very active at one of them and not so at the other.
The reason that I created an account here was to share a story about my first M&P gun, which I purchased a month or two ago. I figured that at least some of the members here would be pretty interested to hear it.
Before I fired any rounds through my new Shield (PC 9mm), I took it home and cleaned/lubed it. My very first shot out of the gun, the slide locked to the rear on a full magazine, but the slide lock was not engaged. I unloaded the gun and tried to figure it out for a while and finally found that a tap on the back of the slide put it back into battery. I then immediately field stripped the gun, wiped off any lube that was on it, and re-lubed the gun. it functioned fine for the rest of that day (I only shot a few rounds)
In the next 200-250 rounds, the gun had the same issue about 7-10 times, and I dismissed it as being in the break-in period/burr wearing down/ etc, and the occurrences did grow less and less frequent, which seemed to prove my theory. ( I shot a total of 650 rounds through the gun. )(by the way, on a press check with a round in the chamber, the gun does not go back into battery on its own. I didn't know if that was a problem or not, but it did not bother me. I just pushed the slide back forward)
The last time I was at the range, two things happened. First, the front fiber optic popped out from the recoil and shot straight back, hitting me in the shoulder. Second, the gun malfunctioned again! I was lucky enough to catch it on video this time to have proof, as well as recreate the problem (by only racking the slide) for photos. At this point, with all of the issues I had been having, I knew I was going to at least take it back to my gun shop and have him look at it, and most likely send it to Smith. He asked to take it home and shoot it, which I was fine with (he is a great guy and runs a great shop). He told me that he shot about 200-250 rounds through it until something happened... the frame cracked. So, after about 900 rounds, the gun broke. I want to add here that I was good about cleaning/oiling the gun and making sure everything was in order, so it did not have anything to do with that, and I trust the gun store owner who I let shoot it and I don't think he would do anything stupid with the gun so I do not hold him at fault. Plus, He handled the situation extremely well, and will definitely have repeat business from me because of that. He apologized profusely (even though it was not his fault) said that he would deal with Smith about my gun directly, and give me a brand new one as soon as he got them in stock, which he did. Tonight, I am going to clean my second brand new Shield and take it to the range. Hopefully this one works out better!
I just thought that some here may like to read this story!
I will try to upload pictures once I get them to upload to my computer.
I am a brand new member on this forum, although I have enjoyed reading some of the threads here for a while. It is very useful to have opinions on just about any S&W firearm at your fingertips with a quick google search, and this place is always one of the first ones to pop up. I am a member on a couple of other forums. I am very active at one of them and not so at the other.
The reason that I created an account here was to share a story about my first M&P gun, which I purchased a month or two ago. I figured that at least some of the members here would be pretty interested to hear it.
Before I fired any rounds through my new Shield (PC 9mm), I took it home and cleaned/lubed it. My very first shot out of the gun, the slide locked to the rear on a full magazine, but the slide lock was not engaged. I unloaded the gun and tried to figure it out for a while and finally found that a tap on the back of the slide put it back into battery. I then immediately field stripped the gun, wiped off any lube that was on it, and re-lubed the gun. it functioned fine for the rest of that day (I only shot a few rounds)
In the next 200-250 rounds, the gun had the same issue about 7-10 times, and I dismissed it as being in the break-in period/burr wearing down/ etc, and the occurrences did grow less and less frequent, which seemed to prove my theory. ( I shot a total of 650 rounds through the gun. )(by the way, on a press check with a round in the chamber, the gun does not go back into battery on its own. I didn't know if that was a problem or not, but it did not bother me. I just pushed the slide back forward)
The last time I was at the range, two things happened. First, the front fiber optic popped out from the recoil and shot straight back, hitting me in the shoulder. Second, the gun malfunctioned again! I was lucky enough to catch it on video this time to have proof, as well as recreate the problem (by only racking the slide) for photos. At this point, with all of the issues I had been having, I knew I was going to at least take it back to my gun shop and have him look at it, and most likely send it to Smith. He asked to take it home and shoot it, which I was fine with (he is a great guy and runs a great shop). He told me that he shot about 200-250 rounds through it until something happened... the frame cracked. So, after about 900 rounds, the gun broke. I want to add here that I was good about cleaning/oiling the gun and making sure everything was in order, so it did not have anything to do with that, and I trust the gun store owner who I let shoot it and I don't think he would do anything stupid with the gun so I do not hold him at fault. Plus, He handled the situation extremely well, and will definitely have repeat business from me because of that. He apologized profusely (even though it was not his fault) said that he would deal with Smith about my gun directly, and give me a brand new one as soon as he got them in stock, which he did. Tonight, I am going to clean my second brand new Shield and take it to the range. Hopefully this one works out better!
I just thought that some here may like to read this story!
I will try to upload pictures once I get them to upload to my computer.
