So a buddy of mine is in a unit that happens to run the arms room that several cadre units draw from for qualification purposes. Not going to get more specific than that. Anyway, one of those organizations drew eight M9s and shot about 500 rounds through each, and got some fairly catastrophic results. 6 of the pistols experienced broken slides and broken locking blocks. Here’s my observations:
1. The same 9 pistols or so are repeatedly drawn and used over and over again.
2. Can’t tell the age, but they’ve obviously seen some use.
3. Possibly an ammo issue? 6/8 weapons breaking seems high even if abused.
4. Looking at the recoil spring in one pic, it seems the same length or slightly shorter than the barrel. From what I remember of the factory B92 armorer’s course back in 2011, this would indicate very worn recoil springs that would not attenuate recoil adequately.
5. The deadlining faults as he is relaying them to me are
“1 Broken slide
1 Fracture in slide
2 Locking block broken
1 locking block cracked
1 barrel cracked (near locking block)”
6. The locking blocks (kind of hard to tell) seem to be the latest generation with the chamfer at the right angle.
I’ve asked if he can get some pics of the ammo. We’re both interested to hear any observations the collective P-F knowledge base may have.
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