X-ray of S&W M&P 45

[Frank_N_Stein]

For those of you interested, I x-rayed my M&P today while at training. I had to get the program installed on my work laptop and to make sure it worked properly I had to x-ray something and my gun was the closest thing at hand. I could have tweaked the image to make the internals of the slide stand out more clearly but I had other things to do so I just left it as the original image.

 

[K_W]

Weird how the rounds don't stack neatly or even straight.

 

[MadCHETNIK]

Thats neat to see.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Weird how the rounds don't stack neatly or even straight.

I'll have to do one of my G22 for comparison.

 

[Que]

So, you guys will be x-raying now?

How do you like that trigger?

 

[jontheturboguy]

We now have xray goggles on a MDC? Oh this is going to get good.....

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

So, you guys will be x-raying now?

We don't x-ray people. Well not generally, but there are two situations where we would but they are few and far between.

 

[RobbyMaQ]

I'm still admiring the aluminum trigger, only from the inside now

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

We now have xray goggles on a MDC? Oh this is going to get good.....

No, no x-ray goggles. I do have the ability to connect my MDC to an x-ray scanner so that I can x-ray something and interpret the image.

 

[pinshooter45]

I have a fairly new to me Smith M & P in .40 I'll be it would look similar! the amazing part to me is that the cartridges show up so well. Being enclosed in a metal magazine I would have expected it to absorb more of the radiation and the image be less clear. However the lead in the bullets would absorb the most X-rays so perhaps that accounts for the way they show up.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

How do you like that trigger?

I love it. Smooth take-up and short reset. So much better than stock.

I'm still admiring the aluminum trigger, only from the inside now

You know you need one!

 

[sbcman]

I was expecting to see Chuck Norris in there.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I have a fairly new to me Smith M & P in .40 I'll be it would look similar! the amazing part to me is that the cartridges show up so well. Being enclosed in a metal magazine I would have expected it to absorb more of the radiation and the image be less clear. However the lead in the bullets would absorb the most X-rays so perhaps that accounts for the way they show up.

The emitter I was using has the capability of penetrating 2" steel but I didn't use very many pulses. The mag isn't very thick steel so the radiation goes right through it, and you are correct about the lead in the bullets absorbing more.

 

[Mackey]

Weird how the rounds don't stack neatly or even straight.

I also think it's interesting to see the compression of that spring. Looks like a coiled snake down there. And what is that follower made of that makes in invisible under X-ray?

 

[pinshooter45]

The emitter I was using has the capability of penetrating 2" steel but I didn't use very many pulses. The mag isn't very thick steel so the radiation goes right through it, and you are correct about the lead in the bullets absorbing more.

Benefits of an almost completed semester of College Physics. Just finished the sections on chemistry and Nuclear Physics.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I also think it's interesting to see the compression of that spring. Looks like a coiled snake down there. And what is that follower made of that makes in invisible under X-ray?

It is plastic and not dense like metal so it doesn't show up in the image.

 

[public servant]

We don't x-ray people. Well not generally, but there are two situations where we would but they are few and far between.

So you're going to be like TSA on wheels now?

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

So you're going to be like TSA on wheels now?

I don't need an x-ray to give out unwelcome body cavity searches!

 

[drillsgt]

You're getting too sophisticated you are not going to give up good old fashioned curb stomps are you?