Thoughts on a FTE issue

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Longhorn1986

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I posted this over on the S&W site as well. I'm hoping for some advice.

Today, we dropped in an Apex Spring and Apex Trigger kit into my wife's SD9VE. The pistol seemed fine and nothing seemed amiss. We went to the range and she began to have transient failure to eject issues. That would normally lead me to believe we may have something going on with the extractor. The thing is, she also had similar issues with a brand new Walther PPS M2 that I bought her yesterday for her birthday. Given that it occurred on both pistols, I would next guess limp wristing. The problem with that theory is she has never had that problem with the SD9VE before today. My third hypothesis is the extractor on the Smith needs adjusting and the FTEs on the Walther are due to the pistol needing a break-in of a few hundred rounds.

Thanks for any light you might be able to shed. :)
 
I assume you mean a guide rod/recoil spring assembly on the S&W; if so, that would be my first suspect. Swap it back for the factory original and see what happens. Also was the ammo changed? Ammo is always suspect if anything was changed. The trigger kit may be the problem but it is less likely than the guide rod.

Since you changed nothing on the Walther, leave it go a while and try to get the bugs out of the S&W. If that means removing the new parts, so be it.

Jim
 
I talked to the wife about it and she thinks she may have been limp wristing. I shot about 10 rounds through it myself and the same with her Walther and had no issues at all. Of course it was a small sample.

We will see the next time we go to the range.
 
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