the naked prophet
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So my wife got a S&W M&P .40 compact, and in the first two hundred rounds, there was one instance of the slide locking back with one round still in the mag. She didn't even notice, just changed mags and I noticed the lone straggler still in the mag.
Took it out again today, and put another 200 through it. Had three premature slide locks (not all with only one round left, but all were with my FIL shooting - he does not lock is wrist very well).
The entire time shooting it, it would "stutter" like the slide went halfway, stopped, and then finished closing. It happened more with the short magazine than with the finger-extension mag, which leads me to think it was related to not being able to control it as well with the shorter grip. At first, I thought it was the round hanging up on the front of the feed ramp, but now I believe it is the slide lock trying to engage while firing. I think that because all of the "failures" have been the same slide lock, and not a misfeed.
So the question is, is there a fix for premature slide lock? Is there a stronger slide stop spring, or something to fix that? I searched, but it seems most people on here with that problem either deal with it or send it back to S&W. I thought by now there'd be a fix for that.
Took it out again today, and put another 200 through it. Had three premature slide locks (not all with only one round left, but all were with my FIL shooting - he does not lock is wrist very well).
The entire time shooting it, it would "stutter" like the slide went halfway, stopped, and then finished closing. It happened more with the short magazine than with the finger-extension mag, which leads me to think it was related to not being able to control it as well with the shorter grip. At first, I thought it was the round hanging up on the front of the feed ramp, but now I believe it is the slide lock trying to engage while firing. I think that because all of the "failures" have been the same slide lock, and not a misfeed.
So the question is, is there a fix for premature slide lock? Is there a stronger slide stop spring, or something to fix that? I searched, but it seems most people on here with that problem either deal with it or send it back to S&W. I thought by now there'd be a fix for that.