From Smith & Wesson . . .
Smith & Wesson Inc. has announced the launch of its latest modern sporting rifle, the M&P15T II. Chambered in 5.56mm NATO, the new M&P15T II features premium enhancements that include a full-length aluminum M-Lok® handguard, flat face trigger, Magpul® CTR® stock, M&P grip, and more.
Vince Perreault, Senior Brand Manager, said, “With the M&P15T II, we set out to include some of the latest features that consumers demand on a high-end MSR – a full-length handguard, flat face trigger, ambidextrous controls, and more. The M&P15T II delivers premium enhancements in a high-performance modern sporting rifle.”
The M&P 15T II rifle features a free-float 16” barrel that features 5R Rifling with a twist rate of 1:8 and is equipped with a mid-length gas system delivering reduced recoil and efficient cycling. The M&P15T II features a forged, oversized trigger guard to provide maximum clearance when wearing gloves and is equipped with a new flat face trigger for crisp and consistent trigger pull. The M&P15T II comes standard with a Radian™ Raptor LT™ charging handle, providing ambidextrous manipulation of the charging handle. Also included is a Magpul CTR carbine-length stock and 15” aluminum M-Lok handguard topped with Magpul MBUS® sights.
The MSRP on the new M&P15T II rifle is $1,372.
Isn’t this a retread of the AR they had before the Sport? And had problems selling after the cheaper gun came out? Looks nice regardless…
saw they passed $1000000000 in sales! Cool😏
Why are so many “new” ARs looking like the last one before it?
I think the design is pretty common now, and likely at a point where most of the possible improvements to the original platform have already been made. Wake me up when a manufacturer comes out with a mini-rail gun contained in an AR upper.
Or something in the 40-watt range.
… or when you can feed them for under a buck a round.
The cheapest .223 on ammoseek.com is currently 29.9¢ a round (Tula steel cased). That is still high, but not as bad as 6-12 months ago. Two years ago you could get the Tula for about 17¢ and decent brass cased (Federal etc) for around 30¢.
Prices are currently dropping
Speaking of the rifle, this S&W seems nice, but not particularly better than the PSA I put together a couple years ago for about $500 total (other than the Ambi controls, which would be nice since I am a lefty).
If that $1370 MSRP works out to 999$ real world, I think it is still $100-200 high. Real world price of $799-899 is probably reasonable. (Other than the world being on fire). I try not to buy guns when the world is on fire.
they left 1 in 7 rifling and went to 1 in 8 like Ruger’s had for a good while now.
Handles the 77 grn bullets better.
upgraded charging handle surprised me.
Actually they had a 1:9” twist instead of a 1:7″ twist.
You have that backwards, the more twist per inch (lower number) stabilizes heavy bullets better.
By going to 1:8″ twist they have the same as the Ruger AR-556.
I have a M&P Sport 2 with a 1:9” twist that stabilizes 77 gr bullets just fine.
No keyholing or inaccuracy at long distance.
BTW: It’s over-hyped, there is very little difference between 1:8″ and 1:9” and heavy bullets.
I routinely outshoot my Ruger with my S&W.
I paid less then $500 for each long before the panic.
IMO this S&W rifle is not worth 1400 bucks.
$1372 for an M&P ???? A Damn M&P ???? must be a real nice trigger. LOL.
For $1372 that trigger had better talk dirty to me.
For $150 on sale I bought a CMC drop in trigger that I really like.
It’s on a PSA build. You can never have too many modern sporting rifles.
The Sport 2 and Ruger-556 were just too tempting to pass up for around $450-$460.
You cant beat the price and both have run flawlessly.
Plus you have furniture laying around so you play dress up.
That’s considered “premium” enhancements justifying 600$ more then its worth?
Looks like some good upgrades. My gen1 has been great, and I’ve already done these upgrades to it.
Does anyone else have a problem with calling these Sporting Rifles?
no, just calling golf a sport.
I prefer ” utility rifles” as a descriptive, but ” sport” or ” sport/utility” works well…
Of course, I also consider a Mosin Nagant Model 44; Carbine , Finn M39 ;or an SKS in stock trim to all have a wide range of utility-from defense,to clanging steel at 300-500 yards, taking deer or punching paper…all of which encompass both ” sport” and ” utility”…and because it makes everyone from Fudds to Anti RKBA semen swallowing schmucks gibber in atonal hoots, grunts and clicks…
So a nicely put together-albeit more than a little overpriced-AR type carbine has a lot to recommend it, given the ergonomics, quick to shoulder and handle nature of it.
I’d probably prefer it with an 18 or a twenty inch barrel, but such things are less common now than when the 20 inch was standard for the platform.
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