Hello All!
New videos from today's range trip have been posted to the YouTube channel. Today was a beautiful day for a range trip. The weather was nice, the temperature was warm and the videos all came out very nice. View them, comment on them, and share them and Michad's Shooting Bench with all your friends! I'll embed a few of the new videos below, but be sure to check out the channel on YouTube because there are many more from today. Enjoy your Wednesday!
-Michad
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
High-Speed Range Video: The .375 H&H Magnum & Suppressed AK-47!
Here are some high speed and standard speed videos from today's range excursion. The .375 was a blast to shoot and the AK-47 with the suppressor was amazingly quiet. Look for reviews on both in the coming months. In the meantime, enjoy!!!
-Michad
-Michad
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
The New Smith & Wesson M&P .22 LR Pistol
Hello everyone! Today we will be looking at the new Smith & Wesson M&P Pistol chambered in .22 Long Rifle:
The S&W M&P .22 is chambered in .22 Long Rifle caliber and is based upon S&W's highly successful line of M&P service-style automatic pistols. Primarily intended as a sub-caliber trainer to a larger M&P service pistol, the M&P captures the look and feel of the it's larger caliber brothers, while shooting the relatively inexpensive .22 LR cartridge.
The M&P 22 is a striker fired pistol just like the larger caliber M&P's. This is notable, as there really aren't that many .22 LR pistols out there that use the striker-firing mechanism, with most using a conventional hammer firing system or other proprietary method.
The M&P .22 comes with all the controls in the same exact locations as the larger caliber M&P. This is an important feature, as it allows all the training conducted with the sub-caliber M&P .22 to be transferred over to the larger duty-sized M&P pistol, thereby allowing for inexpensive practice with the same techniques used on the duty gun. One notable difference is that there is NO magazine safety on the M&P .22, where the larger caliber M&P comes with a magazine safety. Also, on the larger caliber M&P's the manual safety is a factory option, but on the M&P .22 the ambidextrous manual thumb safety is standard.
The folks at S&W also took into account the ever-growing market for sound suppressors and made a threaded barrel standard on the M&P .22. This allows those who have .22 LR suppressors to use those devices with the M&P .22 pistol very easily. The threads on the M&P .22 are NOT your standard 1/2x28 thread pattern; therefore, a thread adaptor is required for the use of a suppressor using the standard thread pattern.
One more thing worth mentioning when using a sound suppressor with the M&P .22 is that most .22 LR suppressors will allow for the use of the standard sights on the M&P .22. Typically, a special tall front sight blade is needed to allow for the use of iron sights with suppressors. In the case of the M&P .22 with the .22 LR suppressor, the sights are easily visible with the suppressor attached to the pistol.
In roughly 150 rounds fired with the M&P .22 both suppressed and unsuppressed, the pistol has been utterly reliable. With the suppressor attached and the proper ammunition loaded in the gun, the report is minimal, similar to a loud cough. The only real negative thing I can find with the gun is that the trigger is really quite heavy and has a spongy feel to it. However, this was not too detrimental to accuracy, and you may find the trigger will feel fine to you. Purely a personal thing.
All in all, the Smith & Wesson M&P .22 LR pistol is a fine handgun. It is extremely useful for inexpensive practice with a pistol almost identical to the full size M&P line of handguns, but would also serve as a fun plinking handgun. Smith & Wesson has hit a home run with this .22 LR pistol, and hopefully their innovation continues to put out more products like this one.
-Michad
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| The S&W M&P .22 LR Pistol |
The S&W M&P .22 is chambered in .22 Long Rifle caliber and is based upon S&W's highly successful line of M&P service-style automatic pistols. Primarily intended as a sub-caliber trainer to a larger M&P service pistol, the M&P captures the look and feel of the it's larger caliber brothers, while shooting the relatively inexpensive .22 LR cartridge.
The M&P 22 is a striker fired pistol just like the larger caliber M&P's. This is notable, as there really aren't that many .22 LR pistols out there that use the striker-firing mechanism, with most using a conventional hammer firing system or other proprietary method.
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| All controls are in the same location as the larger-caliber M&P's. |
The M&P .22 comes with all the controls in the same exact locations as the larger caliber M&P. This is an important feature, as it allows all the training conducted with the sub-caliber M&P .22 to be transferred over to the larger duty-sized M&P pistol, thereby allowing for inexpensive practice with the same techniques used on the duty gun. One notable difference is that there is NO magazine safety on the M&P .22, where the larger caliber M&P comes with a magazine safety. Also, on the larger caliber M&P's the manual safety is a factory option, but on the M&P .22 the ambidextrous manual thumb safety is standard.
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| A thread adaptor is required for attachment of suppressors using a standard 1/2x28 thread pattern. |
The folks at S&W also took into account the ever-growing market for sound suppressors and made a threaded barrel standard on the M&P .22. This allows those who have .22 LR suppressors to use those devices with the M&P .22 pistol very easily. The threads on the M&P .22 are NOT your standard 1/2x28 thread pattern; therefore, a thread adaptor is required for the use of a suppressor using the standard thread pattern.
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| The M&P with suppressor attached. |
One more thing worth mentioning when using a sound suppressor with the M&P .22 is that most .22 LR suppressors will allow for the use of the standard sights on the M&P .22. Typically, a special tall front sight blade is needed to allow for the use of iron sights with suppressors. In the case of the M&P .22 with the .22 LR suppressor, the sights are easily visible with the suppressor attached to the pistol.
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| Unlike some guns, even when the suppressor is attached, the standard iron sights can still be used. |
In roughly 150 rounds fired with the M&P .22 both suppressed and unsuppressed, the pistol has been utterly reliable. With the suppressor attached and the proper ammunition loaded in the gun, the report is minimal, similar to a loud cough. The only real negative thing I can find with the gun is that the trigger is really quite heavy and has a spongy feel to it. However, this was not too detrimental to accuracy, and you may find the trigger will feel fine to you. Purely a personal thing.
All in all, the Smith & Wesson M&P .22 LR pistol is a fine handgun. It is extremely useful for inexpensive practice with a pistol almost identical to the full size M&P line of handguns, but would also serve as a fun plinking handgun. Smith & Wesson has hit a home run with this .22 LR pistol, and hopefully their innovation continues to put out more products like this one.
-Michad
Friday, April 27, 2012
Sorry Hollywood, Two Guns Only Work When Used One At A Time.
I'm sure everyone has witnessed it: the hero of the latest Hollywood movie is hopelessly outnumbered, has no escape and is seemingly seconds away from death when...
Sorry folks, but the whole "gun-in-each-hand" idea just doesn't work in real life. I'm not saying that our intrepid action hero doesn't look really cool with two pistols blazing as he escapes the evil villains' lair/limousine/whatever, but he sure as hell isn't going to hit much. It looks pretty easy in the film, but controlling two handguns kicking in each hand is not easy in itself, let alone trying to hit something while controlling them. Just because Hollywood makes it look easy, doesn't mean it is.
But you already knew that, right? ;)
-Michad
Sorry folks, but the whole "gun-in-each-hand" idea just doesn't work in real life. I'm not saying that our intrepid action hero doesn't look really cool with two pistols blazing as he escapes the evil villains' lair/limousine/whatever, but he sure as hell isn't going to hit much. It looks pretty easy in the film, but controlling two handguns kicking in each hand is not easy in itself, let alone trying to hit something while controlling them. Just because Hollywood makes it look easy, doesn't mean it is.
But you already knew that, right? ;)
-Michad
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Jim Zubiena and the Miami Vice Quickdraw
Through the wonders of Netflix, I've been enjoying watching Miami Vice recently. (Yes, I know it's an old show, my fiance keeps reminding me. It's new to me.) Anyway, I was watching the episode titled "Calderone's Return Part I" and saw this scene where a hit man is confronted by an undercover officer after performing a hit. What was amazing is the hit man's draw speed. Watch the video below:
My first thought was "I blinked and I missed his draw; all I saw was him with his hands up, and then he had a gun in his hands!" I had to rewind the scene three times just to see it and believe that it wasn't some clever editing on the part of the director. My next thought was "that guy has to be a professional shooter; I've never seen even a trained actor draw that fast." Turns out, he is. His name is Jim Zubiena, and he was one of the members of the South West Combat Pistol League, along with leader Jeff Cooper, Jim Hoag, Bob Munden and others. It is not surprising then to see Zubiena using many of the tenets of the "Modern Technique" in his gun handling on the show, as he was a friend of Jeff Cooper, who developed and refined it. Just goes to show that even though a show has been around for years, there's always something new to discover. Either that, or everyone knows about this and I'm just behind the 8-ball. But like I said, it's new to me.
-Michad
My first thought was "I blinked and I missed his draw; all I saw was him with his hands up, and then he had a gun in his hands!" I had to rewind the scene three times just to see it and believe that it wasn't some clever editing on the part of the director. My next thought was "that guy has to be a professional shooter; I've never seen even a trained actor draw that fast." Turns out, he is. His name is Jim Zubiena, and he was one of the members of the South West Combat Pistol League, along with leader Jeff Cooper, Jim Hoag, Bob Munden and others. It is not surprising then to see Zubiena using many of the tenets of the "Modern Technique" in his gun handling on the show, as he was a friend of Jeff Cooper, who developed and refined it. Just goes to show that even though a show has been around for years, there's always something new to discover. Either that, or everyone knows about this and I'm just behind the 8-ball. But like I said, it's new to me.
-Michad
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