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tozir · October 17, 2014, 09:42 AM

Hi,
Last weekend I was home from college and decided to buy my first handgun (I just turned 21). I ended up deciding on the shield 40 caliber. A friend and I decided to go shoot our new guns (he bought a glock 17 at the same time as my purchase).
My shield shot fine for me, but when I let my friend shoot it, it failed to extract the 3rd round. He freaked out and gave it back to me. I cleared it (forgot to grab the casing though), reinserted the magazine and fired the rest of the magazine just fine, and indeed had no other issues the rest of the afternoon.
I've discussed this with several people, and the only thing that we can figure is that the failure to extract was caused by a defective casing, rather than it be the gun's fault or my friends possibly questionable grip.
Does anyone have any other ideas what would cause a new gun to have a failure to extract?

October 17, 2014, 09:42 AM	#1
tozir Junior Member Join Date: October 16, 2014 Posts: 4	New S&W M&P shield 40 failure to extract Hi, Last weekend I was home from college and decided to buy my first handgun (I just turned 21). I ended up deciding on the shield 40 caliber. A friend and I decided to go shoot our new guns (he bought a glock 17 at the same time as my purchase). My shield shot fine for me, but when I let my friend shoot it, it failed to extract the 3rd round. He freaked out and gave it back to me. I cleared it (forgot to grab the casing though), reinserted the magazine and fired the rest of the magazine just fine, and indeed had no other issues the rest of the afternoon. I've discussed this with several people, and the only thing that we can figure is that the failure to extract was caused by a defective casing, rather than it be the gun's fault or my friends possibly questionable grip. Does anyone have any other ideas what would cause a new gun to have a failure to extract?