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Was there any evidence of barrel damage in any of these incidents? I bought the P22 kit about 2 nyears ago but usually shoot with the 3" barrel. Is Walther going to recall any of these pistols?
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Hell, google it.

S&W said Walther is working on it. Walther has not responded to my email.

Google it! Great idea hksshooter. Why did'nt I think of that;very helpful. My questions were to the shooters who actually had their slides crack. I'd like to know if this happened only with the 5" barrel and whether there was any damage to the barrel in the chamber area or the feed ramp. Might indicate that the chamber was a little out of spec in combination with some ammo out of spec causing very high presures to build up if the front edge of the case got into the barrel when the gun was fired.

Pot metal wasn't meant for guns.

Quoted: Google it! Great idea hksshooter. Why did'nt I think of that;very helpful. My questions were to the shooters who actually had their slides crack. I'd like to know if this happened only with the 5" barrel and whether there was any damage to the barrel in the chamber area or the feed ramp. Might indicate that the chamber was a little out of spec in combination with some ammo out of spec causing very high presures to build up if the front edge of the case got into the barrel when the gun was fired.

From what I've read about one 3" gun for every five 5" guns will crack. The extended barrel guns are much more prone to it for whatever reason. Most crack after a huge round count but there are exceptions. One guy claims to have broken one in nine rounds.
As mentioned, pot metal isn't for guns.

What I described was just a hunch on my part. There can be catastrophic results even on forged steel guns if their chambers are out of spec.

Hey I had one crack on me. There was no barrel dammage nor was there feed ramp dammage but the slide rails were pretty messed up.  They were not messed up b4 I went to the range that day.  I had about 600 rounds threw the gun when it broke and it was a 5" model.  S&W did replace the gun after about 3 months of waiting.  They are not issuing a recall at this time.  Apparently they are waiting for someone to get hurt.  I am avoiding all S&W and Walther products due to this event and the way they treated it when I was dealing with them.  I have also had a .357 revolver blow up on me when I was younger that S&W replaced even though  it was not under warrenty either due to manufacturing error.