S&W 15-22 issue

[ChadAmberg]

Hope this is a good forum to post this problem in. My buddy I took shooting his first time a few years ago picked up the S&W MP15-22 about a month ago. It lasted less than a hundred rounds and was on its way back to S&W broken. Just got it back, and another hundred rounds, and its broken again. He says the extracting pin and spring are toast and that's what happened last time. Here's a pic of what just happened.

http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pY0gFQlMXcYcLUJ1e5f7dSdpP_b5YIkzxe1mIDn9xbDX00wf TRmTnj22abTKALoeopyjLr7Yy7YLIZIZO4xkPaQ/1522shell.jpg



Ouch. He was shooting Winchester hollow points.

He's taking it back to the gun shop tomorrow and replacing it. Should he try another one, thinking this one is purely a lemon, or spend some more $$ and get the Colt Umarex M4 in 22.

[ChadAmberg]

A quick update: He took the returned from S&W rifle back to the shop he got it from, and came home with a new one.

That completely new rifle... failed in exactly the same way after less than 100 rounds.

He took it back again to the gun shop, they gave him a third. So far, it's behaving, but he's shooting different ammo now.

It's one thing to get failure to feeds or double feeds when the particular gun doesn't like a certain ammo. Then you can try different ammo in it until you get what it likes.

But for a certain make of gun to catastrophically fail consistently with factory ammunition is just wrong.

[StagLefty]

Sounds like he may have got a bad rifle-a few other members and myself have these rifles and have had no problems.

[ChadAmberg]

That's bad rifleS though... he's on his third one. The first two blew in exactly the same way.

[275RLTW]

2 different rifles have the exact problem with the same ammo....change in ammo fixed the problem with 3rd rifle= DON"T use that particualr ammo with it. What kind of Winchester ammo was it?

[ChadAmberg]

He said it's the hollowpoint ammo from Winchester. But maybe its just the engineer in me, but I have a hard time believing that you "try out different factory ammo" by destroying the rifle. Especially since we're talking 22lr and not something like 45/70.

[Irving]

I'm having a difficult time seeing what exactly happened from the picture. Can you explain what happened?