Prevalence of M&P 10mm Mag Drop Problem - UPDATE: 23 now!

[mark_lives_things]

I've found 23 reports so far:
S&W M&P 10mm Pistols: Prevalence of the Magazine Drop Malfunction | by Mark Houser | Aug, 2022 | Medium

 

[Paul in Nevada]

I have been burned twice. I will never beta-test for S&W again.

 

[mark_lives_things]

I have been burned twice. I will never beta-test for S&W again.

Apologies if you've told me before and I'm forgetting -- what was your story?

 

[Paul in Nevada]

Apologies if you've told me before and I'm forgetting -- what was your story?

I had a 22A that jammed constantly with every ammo type. Then there is the 380EZ which stove pipes/last round ejects with every magazine. Now in fairness, I have a first gen Shield which has been great. But the fact that S&W felt the need to revise the model with the 2.0 shows that they were aware of the shortcomings of the early M&P's. The 22A was long since discontinued and S&W refuses to address the known problems with the 380EZ.


Post script: I traded the 22A after 15 years of frustration for a Savage Axis which I also did not like (this was the first gen Axis. History repeats). I used the money to buy a P229 which I love. The wife's EZ is languishing in the safe and will probably be traded for a G42 or a 38 J-Frame at some point. I was excited for the 10mm M&P at first but I have cooled on the idea for now.

 

[Rlg#17]

I have owned 7 of f the polymer flavored smiths over the years. Each has been sent packing after giving them more then enough of a chance. None of those 7 were even adequate for their intended purposes, let alone fantastic.

S&W could develop the "grail" of a polymer pistol and I won't even give it a second glance. They should have stuck to the Gen 3's, which is what they did best instead of going after brand G's share of the market…

4 of those 7 went back to the mothership several times, and never came back and would run reliably.

Regards from the Commonwealth,
Rick Gibbs

 

[mark_lives_things]

For the record, I own a pile of S&W's, and this was my first bad experience with the company. I love my other M&P pistols, but I think they botched this one.

 

[malph]

For the record, I own a pile of S&W's, and this was my first bad experience with the company. I love my other M&P pistols, but I think they botched this one.

I think they released it too early. It needed more testing and tuning.

The gun has potential. Hopefully Smith continues to develop the pistol and works out the kinks.

I do feel bad for the people who were early adopters and ended up serving as beta testers on this thing.

It should not be like that and it's all too common in the firearms industry these days.

 

[mark_lives_things]

For the record, I own a pile of S&W's, and this was my first bad experience with the company. I love my other M&P pistols, but I think they botched this one.

And I should add that feeding issues, while arguably less serious than mag drops, seem to be much more prevalent than mag drops. I don't mean to discount that problem just because I had a different one.

 

[mark_lives_things]

Up to 16 now

 

[mark_lives_things]

Bumping to note that I'm up to 23 reports now. Oof.

 

[snw19_357]

How many M&P 10mm have been sold to date?

 

[mark_lives_things]

How many M&P 10mm have been sold to date?

No idea. But, seeing as I personally experienced the same problem with two different M&P 10mm pistols, it's pretty clear that there's a design defect (or at least there was, if they've quietly tweaked the design since). This isn't a case of "just a few bad apples" among many thousands of pistols built. I mean, if one in a thousand M&P 10mm pistols have this "problem," the chances of any two of them, selected
at random, both having this problem would be (literally) one in a million.