Archive for the ‘M&P Monday’ Category
Monday, October 20th, 2008
53,227 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
As we proudly announced last week, the M&P test continues! In fact, this week was quite a busy one.
I attended the outstanding Concealed & Off-Duty Pistol Class put on by David Pennington in South Hill, Virginia. As you can see if you follow the ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
50,343 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
Bullet #50,000 recovered from M&P Torture Test
On Friday 10-October 2008, Smith & Wesson's Senior Vice President Leland Nichols fired round #50,000 at the Smith & Wesson Academy (pictured left). If Leland looks like he knows what he's doing behind a pistol, that's because he ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
47,618 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
We're fast approaching the end of the M&P 50,000 Round Torture Test, and it looks like we'll actually finish a little ahead of schedule. Nothing particularly exciting to report about this week, except that the ammo fairy dropped over 2,500 rounds of Speer 124gr ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
45,164 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
Week 23 will have to be remembered as The Week Stuff Broke. I guess putting more than 3,500 rounds in a week through a gun that's been shot as much (and maintained as little) as the M&P Torture Test gun can do that.
First, as you may have ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
41,659 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
As promised, we had a special guest star fire round #40,000 through the test gun. Here is the picture:
Thanks very much to our good friend Julie Golob (nee Goloski) of Smith & Wesson. If you've been living under a rock and don't know ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
39,999 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
What a busy week! Sorry for the day late post. I was in Canada yesterday. 8)
The test gun went on its first international trip. pistol-training.com held an Aim Fast, Hit Fast class in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Thanks to RobE and some of the other ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
38,736 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
All good things, as they say ...
During Week 20, we had the first parts breakage on the test gun. At round 37,427 the trigger spring broke. The gun still fired, but the shooter had to push the trigger forward manually for each shot.
The gun had not ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
35,731 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 0 parts breakages
Schedules collided this week and not quite as much shooting was accomplished. Nonetheless, the gun continues to chug along and is now well over 35,000 rounds. Still not a single stoppage since the suspected maintenance error thirteen weeks and twenty-five thousand rounds ago.
With so ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
34,529 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 0 parts breakages
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
32,265 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 0 parts breakages
As promised, this week includes the fourth accuracy test which was performed at about the 31,000 round point. All results are based on the average of five 5-shot groups fired by hand using a Delta rest as support. Range is 25 yards.
Federal 124gr +p ...
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