View Full Version : S&W 15-22 issue
ChadAmberg
01-15-2010, 16:50
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
01-16-2010, 20:00
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
01-17-2010, 17:47
Sounds like he may have got a bad rifle-a few other members and myself have these rifles and have had no problems.
ChadAmberg
01-17-2010, 19:49
That's bad rifleS though... he's on his third one. The first two blew in exactly the same way.
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
01-19-2010, 13:16
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.
I'm having a difficult time seeing what exactly happened from the picture. Can you explain what happened?
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