Daryl Hunt
Your Worst Nightmare
- Banned
- #81
This true, the engineers at smith have made sure...Nonsense.The smith&wessen m&p15 sport is a very fine entry level sporting rifle...If S&W would be on the leading edge of firearms design like they were with their venerable revolvers and quit trying to produce guns other companies are making, they'd do just fine.
Nothing could beat their Model 29 .44 magnum with a 6" barrel.
And the m&p handguns are excellent, better than glocks.
S&W claims this can shoot either the 556 nato or the 223 rounds. DO NOT FIRE THE 556 NATO ROUNDS. I notice a flaw in their advertising where it hints at mil specs. Instead of outright saying Mil Spec, it says Mil Spec Sized. It doesn't talk about the head size that the 556 requires over the 223 to make it safe to fire the 556. It doesn't talk about the extra chromium in areas that makes it safe to fire the 556 rounds. If it was Mil Spec it would proudly state that. It doesn't. Therefore, it's just another cheap piece of junk for under 800 bucks.
It’s perfectly safe to use 5.56 NATO rounds in the M&P 15 series of carbines.
If it were true, they could legally put Mil Spec, Nato or Match on their descriptions. But since it isn't, they can make the claim it can fire both but they don't have to tell you the dangers of firing the Nato 556 on a regular basis. You already posted pretty much word for word why one shouldn't as I did previously. Until I see one of those 3 ratings, I don't suggest you fire many 556 nato rounds through the MP15.