Today, we will look at the M&P 15 in a couple of configurations chambered for the 5.56 x 45, or the rifle that is known also as .223 Remington. A lot of people are fans of Smith & Wesson rifles and with this one, I don’t see why not.
PC stands for Performance Center and trying out this rifle will definitely give you smooth performances, especially when hunting varmints in the mountains. Testing the rifle with superb 53 grain Match hollow point ammunition, it proved to be beyond than accurate enough to regularly hit four to eight inch tall rodents out to two hundred yards or so.
We have tested the rifle on the Wyoming high plains, one particular colony of dogs did present several shots at four hundred nine yards, and on the eighth try I connected with the fattest member of the family. Credit for the hit must be equally split between the S&W rifle, the Hornady ammunition and the excellent Bushnell 6-24x Tactical scope mounted on my particular gun. Smith & Wesson rifles don’t fail to deliver good performance firearms and are very much reliable when it comes to hunting.
The gun weighs seven pounds, nine ounces (the specs call for eight pounds, two ounces) and measured 381/2 inches in length. Trigger pull for the impressively crisp two-stage trigger was an even five pounds. (For those young pups in the audience, yes “crisp” can be a proper descriptive adjective when used with the term “two-stage trigger”. When done right, as was the case with this S&W, such a trigger is very predictable and controllable, even when the final release is five pounds.)
The S&W 15 includes an alloy receiver, a 20” stainless steel match-grade barrel, a nice touch obviously marked not only with the chambering but with the rate of twist, which is one-in-eight-inches.
The fore-end used – a Full Float Yankee Hill – allows the barrel to be completely free-floating. An integral Picatanny rail adorns the top of the upper unit and has thirteen slots for mounting an optical device with any Weaver-type rings. (If you choose to mount open sights, in front of the hand guard is a second mini rail with four mounting positions.) This allows considerable latitude in scope location. The buttstock is an A-2 type and the rifle is available in traditional black or Advantage Max-1 camo.
Smith & Wesson rifles are often great firearms for hunting so we’re not at all surprised that this one is a winner.
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