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:

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

    Al T.

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  2. 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.....

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

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  4. 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?

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  5. 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).

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  6. Or his cleaning habits?

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  7. "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...

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  8. 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.

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  9. 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.

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