I was looking on gunbroker for a buy it now deal and happened to find a gun shop that had them listed that was only 55 miles away. At 5 am, i was asking by email if they had any and the in store price for a threaded barrel model.

i received an email reply about 2 hours before the store actually opened. they had them with a price of $449. So the oldest daughter(age 11) and i went for a little drive. I had my choice of the moe version($599) or the one i had originally emailed them on.

i already had some furniture, including a red dot, from a junk mossberg 715t that i had sold so i went with the non-moe.

now i need to clean it and get to the range with some nice weather.

.22lr was $60 to $80 per 500 there. they had lots and i left with out any. good think have a lot left from the mossy. they also had the plinker tactical 35 round mags for 49.95. i left them there too...

are the aftermarket mags as good as the smith mags or are there issues with them?

The 32-round ProMags are as good as S&W magazines. Plinker Tactical is a toss up. It's a 50/50 chance that what you get will be malfunction junction.

thanks, i wasn't sure if they were any good or not...i'm leary after the mossberg...some of the issues i had with it were in part due to the mags...

a lgs has quite a few of the plinker tactical mags, at a slightly cheaper price. i think i can wait. i don't think it will take me long to go through the 1500 rds that i have left. i thought i had more.

Shhhh dont even use the word Mossberg near your M&P.

The M&P make take offense and get mad at you.

plus loading the plinker tactical ones will make you wish you were dead.

I've had decent performance from the promags though.

The Plinker Tactical are Junk. The one I bought a while back went right back. I have never had a single failure with S&W mags and I could even get 2 rounds out of that ***.

i know...the wife and i(mostly the wife) couldn't see spending $500 on a .22 when i could get the other for half that. lesson learned as i sent it back to mossberg twice in the first 3 months. luckily a friend bought it for just a little less than what i paid, even knowing the issues with it.

well, now it's time to clean it...