Thursday, August 12, 2010

ka-POP!

Another Smith & Wesson M&P-15/22 out-of-battery incident. Nothing dramatic except an extractor that achieved escape velocity. Wear your eye protection!

The owner is awaiting the word from the manufacturer over whether they'll spring for a new extractor or not.

(I still want one.)

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love mine. Wonder if S&W would let you buy a spare bolt?

Al T.

Bubblehead Les. said...

It was probably Bush's fault. Or Palin's. Or Limbaugh's. Or FoxNews'. Or Beck's. Or Hannity's. Or the Vast Right-Wing.....

Firehand said...

First one I had, the extractor extracted itself twice, but neither time during firing. And at least it didn't have any OOB fires.

BillyBob said...

Assuming cost is not an issue, is there any reason to get one of these instead just putting a tacsol 22 upper on a dedicated lower?

cj said...

Aww, come on. This is the internets! Where are all the people trying to knee-jerk blame his crummy reloads (or gun show reloads...or his friend's reloads...or the stuff he bought at a garage sale in a paper bag).

Rip_Rip said...

Or his cleaning habits?

Fred said...

"Assuming cost is not an issue, is there any reason to get one of these instead just putting a tacsol 22 upper on a dedicated lower?"

The M&P has a fully functioning bolt catch, so it's that much better for training.

Spoke to S&W, they're sending out a shipping label, so we'll see how quick a turn-around time I get, as well as what they have to say about the modification I did to the lower...

Firehand said...

I do have to say, while you can't get S&W to answer their damned 'customer service' e-mails(or snail mails), they did have fast turnaround on fixes.

Fred said...

Forgot about this...

S&W fixed everything, upgraded all the springs, and snuck in a new mag body to boot, all for free. Long story short, it's all better.