What's a normal number of failures to extract?

[throttletony]

Smith will take care of it. Contact their warranty dept. and send it in for repair.

FTE's are unacceptable, and you should have ZERO with WWB.

All the above are correct. should be in the zero range.
On my first Glock 34 I had exactly 1 FTE using Remington UMC, I sold that gun with about 4k rounds through it.

Also, anything mechanical can and will fail, so it's good to practice drills specifically for these types of malfunctions - maybe you can sell/trade it to a training school and they can have it be their "FTE training device"

 

[dirtdigger]

Better than 6k rounds through my full size 9mm M&P. Zero fail anything.
I've used every variant of ammo from my carry ammo to the cheapest crap I could buy.
Send it back to S&W. They'll sort it out.

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

My full size M&P has fed hundreds of different kinds of rounds with not one failure to eject or feed.

 

[ryan3030]

0

Run any gun long enough or hard enough and it will fail. Under good circumstances with good ammo there shouldn't be any failures.

 

[Lowe0]

S&W's going to take a look at it. Thanks for the info!

 

[DustyDawg48]

As another has said, Winchester ammo might be the problem. I've seen 3 M&P autos that had issues at matches while shooting WWB or reloaded Winchester brass. I've also witnessed an SR9 and a Beretta 92 have problems while using Winchester yet the guns will cycle every other ammo/brass without question. It may honestly not be the gun as much as the brass; it is possible to have a completely reliable gun and get the odd out of spec brass so I wouldn't throw the M&P away just yet but I'm betting you switch to Blazer or Federal or any other and you might just clear up your issues. Keep us posted when you can.

 

[indiucky]

I carry revolvers...What are these "failures to extract" you operators talk about???

 

[WebSnyper]

I carry revolvers...What are these "failures to extract" you operators talk about???

Revolvers can have extraction issues as well. Not as often, but when they do it can be much worse.

 

[indiucky]

Revolvers can have extraction issues as well. Not as often, but when they do it can be much worse.

Maybe I will live long enough to see it happen.....

 

[SchwansManDan]

What kind of 9MM ammo are you using, if I may ask?

I was wondering the same thing.

I was also wondering about grip.

My wife has her grandfather's Beretta 950 (circa 1953) in .25 ACP. She sometimes gets stovepipes. I've never had one, even though we're both firing from the same box of Remington ammo. A firm grip makes a difference with that gun.

 

[EricG]

Extraction failures are unacceptable. No matter of the round count.

 

[Lowe0]

I was wondering the same thing.

I was also wondering about grip.

My wife has her grandfather's Beretta 950 (circa 1953) in .25 ACP. She sometimes gets stovepipes. I've never had one, even though we're both firing from the same box of Remington ammo. A firm grip makes a difference with that gun.

I thought it might be my grip, but I shoot an identical gun in .40 failure free. I would think that would be even more unforgiving of grip issues.

 

[Robjps]

I thought it might be my grip, but I shoot an identical gun in .40 failure free. I would think that would be even more unforgiving of grip issues.

Why would a hotter round be more unforgiving? Weak loads and weak grip.