The pencil test...

OK, so the pencil test goes something like this.



Stick a pencil down the barrel of your UNLOADED gun that is cocked while pointed up. Pull the trigger, and it shuld launch the pencil.



Except most M&P owners seem to not even clear the barrel, wheras other guns launch it a foot or more in the air. Is there something wrong with this?



Well first off, my M&P is on par here. However, having a several boxes of unsharpened ticonderoga #2s at my disposal, I played around with the M&P and other guns and noticed some iteresting things.



1) the M&P will shoot a pencil plenty high is you put the unsharpened end in first.

2) the M&P actually seems to put holes in the eraser

3) my two 1911s and baby eagle do not put holes in the eraser.



My conclusion is that I think the M&P is delivering plenty of oomph, but theres something weird about it.



Feel free to chime in with your theories and observations.