Gotta love an honest man. I bet his wife doesn't appreciate the honesty when it comes to the old question of if her ass looks fat in these jeans...
Haha, yeah I flew off the handle a little. But when you've been waiting all month to get to a match to shoot your new toy (I work weekends) and the mag falls out on the first stage which is also the classifier... Then it happens to another guy in your squad with the same new shiny peice of plastic. It's unbelievable how angry it will make you.
I feel your pain! My gun was new as well when I was having the issues. It was also my first time loading .40 for any gun. So when I was having feeding malfunctions, I figured it was me. The malfunctions continued for a couple matches with me chasing my tail trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, because none of my M&P9's ever choke... Then last match I got a mag stuck. WTF, right? It had about 10 rounds in it, and I was reloading on the move but it did't fall free. Had to bobble my reload and rip the mag out. After that I decided to tear the whole gun down and see what was up. This is what I found...
Untitled by FriedChickenBlowout, on Flickr
I've got another one in my 9L that seems to be fine. Not sure what's up with this one, and it was bent DOWN which I find weird as well. My only guess is it's because of the heavy mag springs, heavy weight of the mags being loaded with 20 rounds that just beat it down as the gun cycles. Clearly not a hardened part like it should be as the factory ones don't have issues. And I'm not gonna bash their customer service yet, as I've been too lazy to call them and only emailed, without any response from them at this point.
mine looks exactly the same, although my mags still drop free. Maybe the bend in mine isn't as severe?