Comments on: M&P Torture Test

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:16:38 +0000

Todd,
I was just reading about your M&P test and the gun specs.
Can you tell me the reason for the Mass. 10#
gun and why you had the pull brought down to 6
lbs.
I am looking for a concealed carry gun
and realize that my m&p pro that I use for idpa
won’t make a good ccw gun.

thanks
Joe

By: ToddG

ToddG — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:02:10 +0000

james — Without doing some kind of side by side comparison, I don’t know that anyone could answer that. Personally, I don’t care if my carry gun can be frozen in a block of ice and still fire, or buried in a sand dune for a month and still fire, etc. I care if it will work under the circumstances I will see, for a long time given how much I shoot. So perhaps it would be better to call this an endurance test than a torture test.

By: james

james — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:50:19 +0000

gud day i just want to know if the s&w mp can also withstand what glock can absorb in torture test tnx

By: ToddG

ToddG — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:39:13 +0000

JLM — I’m marking in my shooting log when I lube or clean the gun or perform recommended maintenance.

By: JLM

JLM — Thu, 22 May 2008 06:45:10 +0000

T, are you keeping some of type of log pertaining to when and what maintainence you are doing to the gun, IE lubed at X rounds, lubed and cleaned at XXX rounds etc? That would be informative I think.

By: JohnO

JohnO — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:23:50 +0000

Checking the trigger pull weight is definitely something I’ll be interested in following. Good suggestion.

By: ToddG

ToddG — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:05:58 +0000

Spooky — very good idea. I’ll take a measurement today before heading to the range, and I’ll have the “new” and 1k numbers. However, remember that the gun had a trigger job performed before the first shot was fired. My results might not be particularly informative for a stock gun.

By: Spooky130

Spooky130 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:10:37 +0000

Any chance you could measure the trigger pull every thousand rounds or so? Seems to be a lot of posts on various boards about how the trigger gets lighter as it is used more – it may actually only be getting smoother rather than lighter.

By: M4arc

M4arc — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:37:02 +0000

I’m looking forward to this!

By: ToddG

ToddG — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:50:51 +0000

The state of Massachusetts has some peculiar laws about what pistols can be sold there. In order to comply, the M&P needs to have a 10#+ trigger pull. So Smith offers a variant with this MA-compliant trigger.