swallent
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Well here goes...for about 2 months now I have been planning on getting my CCW. So I saved up enough cash to take the class and went and registered. Well I also decided that I wanted a smaller (yet still full size pistol) to practice with and use as my carry weapon. I really was digging on the Walther P99...well I sold one of my 1911's to pay for the walther except I didnt have enough cash so my FFL presented me with a S&W99. I did some homework and talked to some people...and I guess roughly they are the same gun but the S&W is a lot cheeper so I went for that gun. Bought it...field stripped it at the range cleaned and oiled it...and went out to practice with it and see how my new toy fired.
Here is where it gets interesting...
Upon the first 4 shots I noticed that the pistol was shooting about 2-3 feet lower than where I was aiming...I thought no big deal I am used to my Kimber and maybe this pistols sights arent as accurate. so my wife tried it she is used to her beretta which I cant shoot my way out of a paper bag with and she had the same results. Upon investigating the pistol we thought that the front site looked really crooked but we chalked it up to us being tired as it was getting late so we called it a night. That night when I cleaned the pistol I noticed what looked like brass shavings all over the inside of the pistol...I thought ok...maybe the box of ammo i bought was crap.
The next day after work I took my new friend to the range and I was determined to see if the gun was not right or it was just an adjusting period...I walked in bought 300 rounds of .40 ammo and went right out to the range...and to no avil in 100 rounds could I get 1 shot to be on target. So after changing the front site to every other one the pistol came with and waisting anther 100 rounds between me and several other more expericned shooters it was deemed that the pistol was junk.
So I went home and called S&W and they said that they were sending me a fed ex shipping label. After getting off the phone I took the pistol apart again to clean it for them to be nice...thats when I noticed the metal shavings again...except there were tons of them everywhere and thats when I noticed that it was metal from the slide rubbing on the handle...the polimer handle/frame was all scratched to hell on the inside...and when I removed the recoil rod and spring the whole underside of the barrel was scratched to hell also...this gun it a complete lemmon. Man I hope they make it right.
So its been a week...no shipping label and I have a pisol that is better to throw at the bad guys then shoot at them with...anybody else ever have anything like this go wrong?
Here is where it gets interesting...
Upon the first 4 shots I noticed that the pistol was shooting about 2-3 feet lower than where I was aiming...I thought no big deal I am used to my Kimber and maybe this pistols sights arent as accurate. so my wife tried it she is used to her beretta which I cant shoot my way out of a paper bag with and she had the same results. Upon investigating the pistol we thought that the front site looked really crooked but we chalked it up to us being tired as it was getting late so we called it a night. That night when I cleaned the pistol I noticed what looked like brass shavings all over the inside of the pistol...I thought ok...maybe the box of ammo i bought was crap.
The next day after work I took my new friend to the range and I was determined to see if the gun was not right or it was just an adjusting period...I walked in bought 300 rounds of .40 ammo and went right out to the range...and to no avil in 100 rounds could I get 1 shot to be on target. So after changing the front site to every other one the pistol came with and waisting anther 100 rounds between me and several other more expericned shooters it was deemed that the pistol was junk.
So I went home and called S&W and they said that they were sending me a fed ex shipping label. After getting off the phone I took the pistol apart again to clean it for them to be nice...thats when I noticed the metal shavings again...except there were tons of them everywhere and thats when I noticed that it was metal from the slide rubbing on the handle...the polimer handle/frame was all scratched to hell on the inside...and when I removed the recoil rod and spring the whole underside of the barrel was scratched to hell also...this gun it a complete lemmon. Man I hope they make it right.
So its been a week...no shipping label and I have a pisol that is better to throw at the bad guys then shoot at them with...anybody else ever have anything like this go wrong?