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Thinking about either the Colt or S&W offerings. Anyone have any experience wither either or both?
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Our shop quit carrying the "Colts" soon after we sold a couple. They were quite fragile and disassembled totally different from a real AR. Colts is in quotations since they are actually made by Umarex (Walther's parent) and licensed by Colt. Just like most things made by Umarex, it's a POS. The Smith,on the other hand,has been problem free.
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Thanks. Those two opinions seem to match up to the opinions I've read elsewhere on the net. Looks like it's going to be the S&W.
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+1 a really fun gun that has quite a bit of after market stuff showing up, besides all the regular AR accessories that it can use. and its own dedicated web site: http://smith-wessonforum.com/smith-wesson-m-p-15-22/
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I wish the S&W was offered with a normal style forearm.
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I wish the S&W was offered with a normal style forearm. Not sure whatr you mean by "normal style" forearm but the M&P 15-22 comes with either a plastic quad rail or a Magpul MOE handguard. Both are pretty standard on ARs made by everybody (not the plastic part, though).
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I'm only seeing the quad rail style.
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I wish the S&W was offered with a normal style forearm. Not sure whatr you mean by "normal style" forearm but the M&P 15-22 comes with either a plastic quad rail or a Magpul MOE handguard. Both are pretty standard on ARs made by everybody (not the plastic part, though). Their site shows the MOE with the cheese grater forend, but with covers. That's not a MOE handguard. It has Magpul plastic back up sights. If Swampman700 means a standard carbine hand guard, I agree with him.
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The S&W hands down! I also wish that they would have put a regualar forend on it or at least made it so it could be changed. I have a S&W with a Timney trigger in it and a Yankee Hill Suppresor on it, great little squirell gun.
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I wish the S&W was offered with a normal style forearm. Not sure whatr you mean by "normal style" forearm but the M&P 15-22 comes with either a plastic quad rail or a Magpul MOE handguard. Both are pretty standard on ARs made by everybody (not the plastic part, though). Their site shows the MOE with the cheese grater forend, but with covers. That's not a MOE handguard. It has Magpul plastic back up sights. If Swampman700 means a standard carbine hand guard, I agree with him. Me too.
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I have owned 2 of them. The first one I used as trade material thinking I could always pick up another. I wanted a MOE version and finally gave up and bought a regular version.
Being able to use a SOPMOD stock and everything else I use on my other guns to keep muscle memory fresh while easy on my wallet makes it the funnest trainer I could ask for.
Being as trouble free as a 22 can be is another plus. The only malfunction drills I've been able to practice on this one have been due to shells that wouldn't fire.
As accurate as any 10-22 I've ever owned doesn't hurt either.
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I'm sure you can get a glacier guard or earlier off someone who "upgraded"... but I don't know if the s&w's have a delta ring
ps good to know it is highly regarded
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My Smith & Wesson M&P 15-22 is freaking incredible. Zero malfunctions, wonderfully accurate and the balance is really GREAT.
What's not to like???
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Got a Smith about a month ago. So far it is great!!
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I got mine 2 years ago September. So far it's still great.....
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Any good reason to pay an extra hundred dollars to get the MOE version vs the A1 version?
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My Smith & Wesson and my Smith & Wesson: I wish they offered the option of the hand guard and front sight being like the real one you have there.
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