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Folks-
Well life started great and went down hill quickly...
Been an owner of a Glock 26 for 3 years now and thought it was time for a change as I started hating the Glock's ergonomics and trigger feel. I chose to pick up the new S & W Subcompact 9mm. Went straight to the range to do a comparison between the two and boy I loved the MP. Shot straight, grouped within .25 inch at 5 yards. I was in LOVE!!
Then things became worse when I took it shooting a week later. Magazines started dropping out at no particular time during shooting, Had FTF several times, FTE several times... I was royally pissed off with this MP. So I took it back to the store I bought it from and proceeded to have the gunsmith there tell me there was nothing mechanically wrong with it all the while tugging on the magazine to showing me it was locked in place. I asked him if he shot it in a smartass way and he replies... "I don't need to... I can tell you that S & W have a 99.9% quality control rate." He proceeded to accuse me of limp wristing and pushing on the mag release button and decided to place the mag release button on the right side of the firearm so that it was now between my index and middle finger when shooting (I'm a right handed shooter)... Oh how royally pissed off I was about this...
I decided to take it back to the range and shoot some more to verify the problems I was having as I wanted to get the gun to Dan Burwell for some clean up on the trigger and grips.
I shot 2 different kinds of ammo this time as I didn't have any of the original ammo that I was shooting that caused the 3 contagious problems. One type caused the ammo to FTE and the other ammo was as clean as purified water. So I'm guessing that the original ammo I shot that was causing the problems in the first place was the culprit that time. The second time being another bad batch of ammo only causing FTE. The 3rd kind of ammo did not cause any problems at all no matter what I did. I also made sure to shoot some Cor-Bons through it to see if that had any effect and there wasn't any... I now know which ammo to avoid like the plague and hope that the MP is fine now. I have just sold my Glock 26 and wish to carry the MP from now on...
So, should I send it to S & W anyways? Forget about it and send it to Dan Burwell anyways? Or keep shooting it and cuss at it for not wanting a relationship with me? :?
Cheers-
Erich Tucker
Well life started great and went down hill quickly...
Been an owner of a Glock 26 for 3 years now and thought it was time for a change as I started hating the Glock's ergonomics and trigger feel. I chose to pick up the new S & W Subcompact 9mm. Went straight to the range to do a comparison between the two and boy I loved the MP. Shot straight, grouped within .25 inch at 5 yards. I was in LOVE!!
Then things became worse when I took it shooting a week later. Magazines started dropping out at no particular time during shooting, Had FTF several times, FTE several times... I was royally pissed off with this MP. So I took it back to the store I bought it from and proceeded to have the gunsmith there tell me there was nothing mechanically wrong with it all the while tugging on the magazine to showing me it was locked in place. I asked him if he shot it in a smartass way and he replies... "I don't need to... I can tell you that S & W have a 99.9% quality control rate." He proceeded to accuse me of limp wristing and pushing on the mag release button and decided to place the mag release button on the right side of the firearm so that it was now between my index and middle finger when shooting (I'm a right handed shooter)... Oh how royally pissed off I was about this...
I decided to take it back to the range and shoot some more to verify the problems I was having as I wanted to get the gun to Dan Burwell for some clean up on the trigger and grips.
I shot 2 different kinds of ammo this time as I didn't have any of the original ammo that I was shooting that caused the 3 contagious problems. One type caused the ammo to FTE and the other ammo was as clean as purified water. So I'm guessing that the original ammo I shot that was causing the problems in the first place was the culprit that time. The second time being another bad batch of ammo only causing FTE. The 3rd kind of ammo did not cause any problems at all no matter what I did. I also made sure to shoot some Cor-Bons through it to see if that had any effect and there wasn't any... I now know which ammo to avoid like the plague and hope that the MP is fine now. I have just sold my Glock 26 and wish to carry the MP from now on...
So, should I send it to S & W anyways? Forget about it and send it to Dan Burwell anyways? Or keep shooting it and cuss at it for not wanting a relationship with me? :?
Cheers-
Erich Tucker