I’m envious of the taper pinned low profile gas block. I wish more manufacturers (ahem, Colt) would start making them.
I am very satisfied with my M&P15. Its wearing a Troy 12in FSP rail now. Great trigger out of the box and it feeds everything.
A Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm followed me home today! Here’s a pic with my 15T:
does anyone with a 15t have a problem with the troy handguard being blue. Mine is, ive tried soaking it in oil and its still blue. and the handguards top rail isnt lined up with the upper recievers rail, is this common?
I would say that the anodizing on the front rail of my 15T has a slight blue tint in certain lighting but it’s not something I would have noticed without flash photography. They appear color matched to me otherwise.
A member of smith-wessonforum.com mentioned that his 15T’s Troy rail isn’t lined up properly with the upper receiver rail and posted a pic - it definitely wasn’t lined up. Replies seemed to indicate that there’s some variation but most seem to be pretty well tined up. Mine is so square they might as well be the same rail. Is the rail alignment on yours off horizontally (clock) or vertically (level)?
On the one I own and on all the ones I have handled, the rail appears to be black anodized. It’s not a blued finish for sure.
Your front handguard rail should line up with the upper receiver rail. I would consider it to be a problem. Alignment of the front and rear BUIS is the first thing that comes to mind.
The rail’s not loose is it?
Scoby
its off horizontally, no its not loose, and it has a very blue tint to it. those two little things just bother the hell out of me.
Its not canted bad but enought to be annoying, but the rail is really has a bad blue tint to it. But the rifle has been great no malfunctions at all, definitly better than my bushmaster.
Looks like the rail is rotated clockwise a little to me. If it’s still under warranty I’d call S&W and let them know. You’ll probably end up sending it back to them but I’m sure they will take care of it.
I’d tell them about the blue tint of your rail too. If it really looks like that and it’s not just the flash photo that would irritate me too.
Scoby
yeah its only a couple of months old, the rail really is that color, its annoying
I concur. The rail position issue can be addressed without issue. The color of the rail itself does look off from the photos. I don’t know that it would bother me all on its own but combined with the poor positioning of the rail I think my tolerance for the rail finish would be pretty low. If you send it back to S&W to have the rail positioned properly you should ask them to replace it with one that has a proper finish.
Curious - is this an early 15T or more recent? Not that it matters really but there seemed to be a few wrinkles in early production M&P15’s when Stag was involved (not a slight towards Stag). Quality control seemed to improve significantly once production was moved in-house at S&W. I don’t know how to identify the Stag M&P’s other than by the BCG gas key staking (Stag staking looks like a straight line hammered across each of the gas key bolts perpendicular to the bolt carrier - S&W staking is proper and pushed from the sides towards the bolts).
Call S&W. I am sure they’ll make it right. S&W provides fantastic customer service. If it is one of the early Stag M&P’s have them go over the entire upper and make sure everything is right. They’ll know what to look for.
thanks im going to call S&W, i think it is a later production, if i get what you are talking about with the bolt staking. The bolt is stamped MP, if that helps.