Originally Posted by
GNiner
I’m a loooooonnng time Glock shooter. I have several Glocks with round counts over 30,000, still going strong. One of the reasons I have remained a “Glock guy” is my ability to get stock glock parts from at least half a dozen different places: glockparts.com, glockstore, glockmeister, brownells, etc. I like to have spare extractors, striker springs, recoil springs, trigger bars, strikers etc. on hand. I keep up on preventive maintenance (spring changes etc) religiously.
I have dabbled in other guns occasionally for funsies, usually selling them after a couple of thousand rounds (call it long term rental). About a month ago, I bought a S&W M&P 2.0 Compact as my latest long term rental. A couple of thousand rounds later, and I am LOVING this gun. The accuracy is right in line with my glocks, so no problem there. The grip texture is amazing. I detail stripped this gun to get a look at the mechanics of operation and I am impressed with the simplicity compared to SIGs, Berettas, CZs, and HKs (yikes!). The funky trigger bar of the 1.0 is gone. There doesn’t appear to be any wear items other than springs (and maybe the sear long-term).
However, I can’t seem to locate a source for parts for this gun. S&W doesn’t sell parts on their website (that I can find). Brownells has a very limited number of parts, but most of those are Apex kits. Where can you get stock striker, recoil, and trigger springs? Extractors? I know Apex and Wolff are answers for aftermarket parts, but I am mainly interested in stock parts. On a related note, why did this gun fail the MHS so early? Were there excessive parts breakages? I am hesitant to keep this gun around if I can’t find parts to maintain it, even though I like it very much. Any high round count M&P shooters here?