I am having a bit a of a disagreement in a different forum and it appears that the sport is a cheap gun prone to failures at high round counts. Now I personally have fired over 3k from mine and have had no failures but others think that if you fire 2-3k a weekend in a course it will fail so please let me know what yours are as I know alot of people here fire much more then I do.

I'm at over 20,000 through my LMT CQB MRP withh zero failures. However, my brother, who has the S&W can't make it through a 500 round range session without a failure.

I have about 1700 rounds through my Sport and the only FTE(ject)s were cased by the case bouncing off my brass catcher and back into the action. But the most I've ever fired at one range session was 450 rounds.

All rounds were freedommunition reloads, XM193 (American Eagle), or my own reloads. No steel case ammo.

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I have well over a thousand rounds and have had no failures, I had a cheap aftermarket part start to fail but I caught that without having a failure and fixed it.
Szuppo, I am happy for you with you LMT CQB MRP (whatever that is). If your brother is having so many failures S&W has an excellent warranty program. We have quite a few members in our forum and some of them shoot 3 gun and a couple I know run Carbine classes and will shoot upwards of 3000 rounds on a weekend without any failures. Maybe he should check into that. Our Sports arent picky about what ammo we shoot and although I may not shoot as many rounds as you two do other members do without failures. I would recommend checking into a warranty repair. You never said what kind of failures, or broken parts or what he has to replace to get it back going. We have people that run through tons of ammo with slidefire stocks without failures so it is just food for thought!

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Grover Oathkeeper

They also said that artificial sweeteners were safe, WMDs were in Iraq and Anna Nicole married for love.
Mr Rate Shooter

Define "failure". Per my definition, I don't believe you.

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Improvise, Adapt, Overcome

I looked at our friends posting history, almost all his posts are selling something. What few arent are chiding people just to get a response. This is just a setup. And of course he is going to pick one of the most expensive made AR style rifles, monolithic upper, quick change barrels...I feel as if I wasted my breath with him...

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Grover Oathkeeper

No offense, but I couldn't care less what anyone else has to say about the sport, especially someone who has never shot one and is only giving an opinion on a experience they have never had (which around here we call bovine feces). It does what I want it to do and that's all that matters. No doubt there are more expensive rifles that are nicer...but I don't go buy a dumptruck when a wheelbarrow will get the job done.

^ I agree, don't care about others opinions whatsoever. I don't want to see this post derailed with opinions. I like to see the truth/facts. With that said, the OP is asking for a round count. I believe that it is in regards to the sport model. My question/statement is that there are really not to many differences in certain M&P15's?. IE: I have a M&P15T with the same barrel. Different furniture, forward assist and dust cover. All internals from my understanding are the same. I was basically following this post because I would like to know if there are failure points if any to the M&P15 rifles, being that most are very similar. I will eventually use it for HD so reliability is quite important to me. I have just over 1k over two range sessions (cleaned in-between) with no FTF or FTE using a mix of XM855, XM193, M855 and federal BTHP. I shot hundreds of rounds of each type of ammo to ensure that there are no issues with it in my rifle then stashed the rest.
Oneyeopn
"I had a cheap aftermarket part start to fail but I caught that without having a failure and fixed it."
What aftermarket part?

I have! I've gone through 500 rounds without failures. The only failures I have ever had is when I tried using Wolf or Tula ammo in my M&P Sport. Needless to say I stopped using it. As far as my round count I've lost track but its in the thousands for sure.

I'm over 800 rounds, all but 100 rounds was cheap, dirty russian ammo. The only failure I've had was my fault for an improperly installed part, not the fault of the weapon. Once fixed it has continued to run flawlessly.

Define failure??

I've gone out and shot 300-500 rounds frequently without any sort of issue. No FTE or FTF or anything else.

I'm probably somewhere in the 2000-3000 range now. Never had a single issue.


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Grover Oathkeeper

thanks for the homework.
i've gone ~1200 through my sport,
(only failures[6] were weak old magazine springs)once replaced, then no problem.
the sport is a fun gun.
maybe in the realm of a shtf situation, then we'll see if the sport holds up.
me, i'm a believer in S&W quality.
sport- just good value for a price point.
i reload and best so far is .668moa, 60gr amax, 24.0gr varget.

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A&M'61,NRAlife'61.

I am probably between 1500-2000rds in Mine havent really counted

1/2 of those rounds have been Bursts and Full mag Dumps with Slide Fire

Only 2 issues.. Both My RE-LOADS...
1 Primer upside down
2 No powder


My Sport is awesome for sure... as MOST of us all know...


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I'm at 1000 with my OR, no failures of any kind to date.

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Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

Only 800 rds here with no problems whatsoever.

I have thousands of rounds through y S&W and have only had 2 failures...and the gun wasn't in my hand at the time of the failures.

Just shy of 2,000 rounds. All Federal XM193or American Eagle .223. ZERO failures of any kind. Everything goes boom the first time and puts a hole in whatever's in front of me. Mix of PMAG and DSG Mags with Magpul tan followers.

Curious as to the site that's still down playing the Sport. Even on ARF, it's consistently recomended to those with a specific price range and plans for the gun. Got to be M4 which I don't even venture to due to "Colt" being the answer to every question you have.

my M&P15OR has had thousands down the barrel... no FTL no FTF with a myriad of ammo... everything from hornady to cheap tula......... ill carry this gun to the pits of hell with me...

Bumping this thread... Up in the 2K range since my last post, having only (2) failure to fire issues. I'm blaming ammo since I have not replicated the issue since.

I have about 2300 rds thru my Sport with NO failures of any type. This is better than any firearm I've ever owned in 52 years. Part of this is due to the fact that I only use decent brass cases ammo but the real credit goes to S&W!!

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gunfighter48
NRA Life Member

I am over 2k rounds with no failures!!

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Grover Oathkeeper

I have ran over 2,000 rounds mostly NGA and FM remains only failure to eject was with cheap Tula steal case. I have a mp15a