We have had our M&P pistols for a little over a year. We have the 9mm & .40S&W in both fullsize and compact. The compacts are newer, and have not yet seen a full year of use.
These pistols have seen well over 10,000 rounds of use through each. They are typically cleaned once a week (or so) in an ultrasonic tank (slides and barrels, not frames).
We have seen 2 fullsize .40S&W's blow up. Both had cracked barrels, both frames broke forward of the roll pin near the disassembly lever. The crack went down and took off half of the trigger guard with it.
The fullsize 9mm has a broken extractor pin (the little pin visable from the underside of the slide, going up through the top). It still runs, but needs to be knocked back flush with the underside of the slide on each cleaning. It will get fixed at some point.
The compact 9mm is just now dropping its magazine on almost every shot. It ran fine for months, but now drops the mag more often than not.
Everything has a service life, and things will break. However, our 9mm/.40S&W Glocks have run for just as long, see more rounds through them, and have only seen a broken trigger return spring here or there, and a cracked barrel on a 23c. The XD's have run well also, although 1 of them (5 total) had a barrel lug get chipped.
I hope S&W figures out how to make their gun as robust as Glock has made theirs, but it's not there yet.
These pistols have seen well over 10,000 rounds of use through each. They are typically cleaned once a week (or so) in an ultrasonic tank (slides and barrels, not frames).
We have seen 2 fullsize .40S&W's blow up. Both had cracked barrels, both frames broke forward of the roll pin near the disassembly lever. The crack went down and took off half of the trigger guard with it.
The fullsize 9mm has a broken extractor pin (the little pin visable from the underside of the slide, going up through the top). It still runs, but needs to be knocked back flush with the underside of the slide on each cleaning. It will get fixed at some point.
The compact 9mm is just now dropping its magazine on almost every shot. It ran fine for months, but now drops the mag more often than not.
Everything has a service life, and things will break. However, our 9mm/.40S&W Glocks have run for just as long, see more rounds through them, and have only seen a broken trigger return spring here or there, and a cracked barrel on a 23c. The XD's have run well also, although 1 of them (5 total) had a barrel lug get chipped.
I hope S&W figures out how to make their gun as robust as Glock has made theirs, but it's not there yet.