Yeah, got it at Joebob's, well, getting it. They said 5 to 10 days to ship, but they've been selling so fast, they were out when I ordered, got 200 lowers in today and said mine would ship out in this batch, had another 400 coming in Thursday.

I was just trying to put one together for less than 500 and have it light weight. Got some of that exploding target that 22 won't set off, so wanted another 223 the boys could use when we blow stuff up.

Grover, I figured that was the thread you were going to link too, but couldn't find it, or I would have link in my post.

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M&P 22A, 40c, 15A, 15-22

Crracer, what's that weigh.... 5 lbs ???
Sound cool

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Rod it took me a couple of minutes to find it!!

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I'll have to weigh it and post it. What I don't like about it is the roll mark. I like cool stuff like Zombies and skulls n stuff like that. This says New Frontier Armory, in a font like you might have seen in the old westerns.

That, and it comes with a commercial buffer tube instead of mil-spec. Apparently Commercial is cheaper than mil-spec, and they were wanting to hit a certain price point for a complete lower.

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M&P 22A, 40c, 15A, 15-22

Grover might post a picture of it, but I weighed it with a empty 30 rnd mag and it was 6 lbs even. Put a loaded 20 rnd mag in and it hit 6.6 lbs. That was with a TruGlo Red dot 2x40.

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M&P 22A, 40c, 15A, 15-22

Here is the rifle that Crracer had been talking about coming in at under $500.....
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Nice post Oneyeopn! That the kind of stuff a a new rifle owner wants to see. I think keeping track of this info will be need for my melonite coated brothers and myself. I'm loving this rifle! It feels good. It's soild. Doesn't sound like **** when firing, like the DMPS that my buddy bought.

Round count: 400 Federal 62 gr xm855 NATO green tip
No Problems!

Just a FYI, perhaps the DPMS your buddy has, has a dry buffer spring. Have him try a light coat of grease on the spring to quiten it down. If it's not the spring, I'm not sure what else there is on an AR that can sound like ****. Anyway, I garnered the idea off the 300 AAC blackout forum from those complaining about buffer spring noise when shooting subsonics with a silencer. Might be worth a try, and after all, that's what buddies are for (unless he's not really a buddy and more like a pretend buddy...)

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M&P 22A, 40c, 15A, 15-22

I don't think he really noticed or even cares. I'm pretty sure his AR buy was impulsive. Just didn't sound as solid as my 15-Sport.

While I haven't heard a sport, to compare it sound wise, over any other AR, there is a thread on here about people saying its loud. Perhaps it muffles the spring slap in the buffer tube....

At times, when I'm shooting my M&P15A, I hear the spring slap, other times I don't.

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M&P 22A, 40c, 15A, 15-22

Back in the day my issued M16 was real loud, the spring slap was horrible, much better when we went to the M4.

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Yeah back in the Day my 16 sounded like a daisy BB gun!!!it actually unnerved me everytime I shot the sproinging thing!! LOL

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Whats up fellas No rounds to report?

1600 as of this week, and 300 on the way. I bought my sport a couple months ago.
Last 200 was steel cased brown bear with no hiccups.
I noticed it smelt funny, vs. my normal lake city.

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Just got done cleaning up the rifles and pistols from a day at St. Crispian shooting course- Carbine course. Link:The Quarter Deck

I ran the 15 Sport today,, my son John ran the DPMS Oracle, and my son Kevin ran his rifle he built. A total round count for the 3 of us was 2445 for the day. ZERO failures!!!! 'Cheap' guns ruled the day. 800 rounds each, no cleaning.
It was a really good course, Stan is an excellent instructor; former Marine.
We shot the HELL out of the rifles- zeroed in, adjusted a couple clicks, then went to town. Slow, fast, up, down, sideways, you name it.
So, the round count is now: DPMS Oracle: 7,400 rounds total. S&W Sport: 6900 rounds. 95% of ammo shot has been WPA/ Wolf.
The older, black box Wolf is circa 2009. It has a red sealer on the primers. This ammo stinks a bit, but for us, no issues today. The WPA is in a camo colored box. It's good stuff. Pretty clean running, and not stinky. WPA is 2010 and 2011 vintage.
FWIW, rifle prep, service, etc. for these 2 rifles: Basic lubing and cleaning. Careful cleaning of the bolt carrier internals has been a big part of the lack of failures. If you have never looked down inside there where the gas block vents to the bolt chamber....... it gets hot and grumpy in there. You NEED to really clean that area well. I clean the chamber with a chamber brush regularly; one specific for the AR15. Use a solvent when you work the brush in, a lot of solvent. Cuts the buildup before it causes bigger problems.
I did replace the extractor on the DPMS a week ago. I do feel the extractor might have worn a bit early by the steel cases, but the cost of an extractor for every 7,000 rounds or so is a minor inconvenience, and it does not negate the savings on the cost of ammo- not even close. Also, from day 1, this particular extractor looked to have a really small clearance for the lip to grab the cases. Under a magnifying glass, the new one is definitely better looking. And, the Sport's extractor looks much better, and has never had an issue pulling a stuck round, etc.

And, my son was funny as hell today, diving in the mud with 3 Seals watching and a couple other HSLD there at another training course next to us. I'll try to upload a couple pics later. I am bushed.

Very cool, gotta love a carbine class !

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Well. I've put another 250 through the rifle. 90 rem .223. The rest were a buddies tulammo. That makes 650 no FTF.

I've gone through 750 rounds of freedommunitions.com 55g FMJ reloads. All have gone bang.

Yesterday we had two cease fires called in the middle of a firing round due to wild turkeys coming out to graze on the 100 yd line. As a result I had to empty ten 10-round mags in the final 12 minute round of the day. I managed to do it in under 10 (no rapid fire at the range). The gas block was smoking. haha.

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Well, I went thought 250 rounds last time I went to the range. I haven't clean my 15sport like I usually do. I thinking about taking it in dirty. I almost want to make it FTF/FTE.
Any thoughts??

I don't get to shoot my M&P 15-Sport often, so my round count is pretty low.

100 .223 TulAmmo 55gr FMJ
100 .223 American Eagle 55gr Varmint Tipped
40 5.56 Winchester
40 5.56 Federal XM193
10 5.56 Federal Green Tip
10 2.23 Hornady Superperformance
10 2.23 Hornady Z-Max
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310 rds Total

I wish there were more places to shoot it around my way.

2300 as of late. My last 300 were federal AR 223, pretty accurate, I was shooting bowling pins out to 200 open sights, 100% reliable.
Prior to that my freedom batch of 223 reloaded brass was also 100% reliable laying down suppressive fire with my choat mag coupler.

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Spent an hour at a local indoor. 200 tulammo. Dirty rifle. No problems.