I don't really get the M&P 15/22

[kbm6893]

lets see...whats the old saying...dont feed the trools?

Troll? I'm no troll. I've been posting here for years. Just asked a question.

I think they look cool, too. I can even see myself getting one someday. I just think they are marketed to people who want to feel like Jack Bauer but can't afford an AR or the ammo to feed them.

 

[chuck s]

Good trigger time with the M16 system is good trigger time. My primary weapons system is the M4 Carbine and I've set my M&P15-22 to mimic it as closely as possible. They may be marketed to the Jack Bauer set, but that didn't stop me from buying one.

2000 rounds of .22LR at 3¢/shot cost me $60. Add $500 for the rifle and clone aimpoint (to mimic my M68 CCO) and total cost is $560. (Actually I have less than this in the system, but this is an example.)

Lake City M193 Ball (AKA 55gr for those in Rio Linda) runs 45¢ a round in bulk, or $900 for those same 2000 rounds down range. So far in this example, the M&P15-22 has saved me in excess of $300 for the same amount of front sight time. Shooting cheap Wolf? At 24¢/round the break-even point comes about the 2500 round mark.

-- Chuck

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Troll? I'm no troll. I've been posting here for years. Just asked a question.

I think they look cool, too. I can even see myself getting one someday. I just think they are marketed to people who want to feel like Jack Bauer but can't afford an AR or the ammo to feed them.

After reading the many polite, thoughtful and informed postings here I would have hoped that you'd have discovered that folks here do not fit what you think/thought above.

I have met several S&W Forum members and 15-22 owners-- some are weapons manufacturers, business executives, firearms collectors, dads and gramps, and first time gun owners. None of these fine folks suffer from some type of Bauer syndrome as you suggest are in the marketing crosshairs of S&W.

Whatever questions you may have had about the uses and popularity of the 15-22 have been answered quite well here.

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