Originally Posted by
LHQuattro
Here's my experience with M&P9s, 2 guns, approx 5000 fired:
its a great design, extremely shootable, but with some QC flaws. Those flaws are fixable, and S&W will make it right. Still, I don't trust them out of the box, sight unseen.
M&P9 #1:
1500 rds without a hitch, super easy to shoot well, shot great, felt great, accurate, shot my best ever IDPA classifier (at the time) the first time I picked up. Then, I dropped it in the snow, brought it inside, and the slide rusted the next morning. No problem, I'd heard there was a bad run of finishes.
Sent the gun back on S&W dime - S&W was very helpful and replaced the slide and barrel for free. Got the gun back, shot great, felt great, accurate, made SSP master with it. Put about 2500 rds through it this way. But, I was getting partial extraction every 200-500 rounds. I didn't know to check if it was with white box at the time. Also, put a pro sear in, had 1 failure to reset - hasn't reoccured since.
Sent gun back for the 2nd time for extraction problems, S&W paid for everything. Got the gun back with new extractor, and apparently a new barrel. Another 2000 rds, zero function issues, the gun eats everything. But accuracy went out the window. To the point that I'm dropping 2X as many points, and can't shoot anything other than patterns, even from a bench. Went from dropping 10-20 pts on the classifier to 30-40 points.
Sent the gun back to S&W last week for accuracy issue. On their dime. S&W customer service has been excellent - they aim to please. Haven't got the gun back yet.
M&P9 #2: purchased a second M&P9 2 in March. It shoots well, reasonably accurate. In 1100 rds, 4 partial extractions - with WWB. Go figure. Also, had 1 light primer strike, the second strike ignited - maybe need to clean out the striker channel or put a heavier striker spring in - or maybe just a hard primer, I dunno.
So my take - these are easily fixable issues, and S&W will make it right. Its a solid design, if it wasn't, there's no way Todd Green's gun could have performed like it did. But I've had too many little bugs for me to enthusiastically endorse yet.
One of my IDPA buddies shoots an M&P9pro - same extraction issue every few hundred rounds.
I love the things, but just don't think the M&P9 is quite there yet.
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