Boy am I steaming!
I just bought the m&p in 9mm 2 days ago...had nothing but problems.
The slide would constantly lock back with rounds still in the mag and I have 2 failure to extracts. I shot 200 rounds of blazer brass and pmc.
I tried both of the magazines that came with it and about every 3 to 4 rounds, the slide would lock back. The failure to extract was probably due me limpwristing it because I constantly had to chamber a round when it locked back and was loosing some of my grip.
I called Smith and Wesson and they said they know of a problem with the slide lock....Larry (I think was his name) said they will put a new extended slide stop and test it to make sure that was the actual problem. He said the turn around was 10 business days.
I am really impressed with Smith's customer service. I really do want to like the m&p...the recoil feels like a .380 and it fits SO well in the hand. I paid $439 new (the one without the mag safety and lock) at my local Army and Navy Store.
Has anyone experienced problems like this before?
I just bought the m&p in 9mm 2 days ago...had nothing but problems.
The slide would constantly lock back with rounds still in the mag and I have 2 failure to extracts. I shot 200 rounds of blazer brass and pmc.
I tried both of the magazines that came with it and about every 3 to 4 rounds, the slide would lock back. The failure to extract was probably due me limpwristing it because I constantly had to chamber a round when it locked back and was loosing some of my grip.
I called Smith and Wesson and they said they know of a problem with the slide lock....Larry (I think was his name) said they will put a new extended slide stop and test it to make sure that was the actual problem. He said the turn around was 10 business days.
I am really impressed with Smith's customer service. I really do want to like the m&p...the recoil feels like a .380 and it fits SO well in the hand. I paid $439 new (the one without the mag safety and lock) at my local Army and Navy Store.
Has anyone experienced problems like this before?
Eject, maybe (and that is a big, big, BIG maybe). limpwristing is largely urban myth that is most often explainable by other more tangible physical causes. In the case(no pun intended) of extraction, either the extractor is working, or it isn't, and if the brass was remaining in the chamber, and it was not stuck there by a horrendously overpressure load, then that is almost certainly a bad extractor. With ejection, if the slide is short cycling the brass may not have time to clear the ejection port and get stuck, but if you have _any_ grip at all on the gun, and it doesn't fly out of your hands after you pull the trigger, you're providing enough support for the gun to cycle. This can also happen when the recoil spring is too stiff or the ammo is too weak. 
