Quote Originally Posted by Not_A_Llama View Post


Well, ok, so if you read my post instead of going on this bizarre reply-to-everyone-fest, you'd have an idea why it's not a good training proposition. With a conversion, you're shooting /literally/ with your own gun. Not a five pound bare bones plastic rifle, but honest-to-god, your own rifle. I have a Magpul CTR, Aimpoint Micro, Midlength railed handguard, TD grip, Magpul AFG, Redimag, and a Surefire flashlight. It's not an unusual setup. The S&W as it comes is *nothing* like my real gun.

I know I'm not in the minority for having customized my gun. I won't be spending an extra $1k to make the $450 M&P shoot like my real AR15, when $200 of conversion does the same job, better.

Y'know, previously, a point could have been made about the BHO functionality on the Atchissons being an issue, but with CMMG's innovations (the topic of this thread, not an M&P cheerfest), the conversion is /the/ way to go now.
Making additional AR's like your primary AR isn't hard save for optics and weapon lights. I easily and inexpensively equipped my AR15-22 w/AFG, ACS, Ergo Grip, ladder hand guards, MBUS and all the other goodies my primary AR15 has. I got one of the unthreaded bbls unfortunately so that's being threaded right now for a FH and it will also get suppressed just like my primary AR15. You see it as not being the same and I see it as being as close to the real deal as you can get.

If there is a new conversion that works better then that's what I was trying to find out when I asked why not an M&P15-22. To me, with my experience, that has been the most reliable option. You said I turned it into a cheerfest but all I was doing was looking for information. It quickly turned into an M&P bash and all I was doing was defending that which worked well for me and asking what made the other options so much better. I was actually having some good conversations (that you called a bizarre reply-to-everyone-fest) with others in this thread.

I will just bow out of this conversation since it's pretty clear I'm not going to get the information I was looking for and someone is taking my posts as a distraction rather than conversational like most others are. I guess I forgot for a moment that forums weren't for discussion.