I'm a Sams Club 40" SS MES owner, have not used the Bradley. So I honestly can not compare them. But if price performance was the main issue, and lots of great customer feed back, you have to go with the MES, it has better price, comes with better controls, the 40" has more than enough capacity. Based on so many positive comments on this forum and many others there are a lot of very happy MES owners.
If you want a true set n forget smoker, the MES still requires you to keep adding wood every hour or 1.5 hours.
However you can easily modify the MES to achieve a wood/smoke feeder that would make the MES a true set n forget smoker:
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...t=22037&page=3
purchase here..
or try Illini's contraption
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...11&postcount=1
If you want a true set n forget smoker, the MES still requires you to keep adding wood every hour or 1.5 hours.
However you can easily modify the MES to achieve a wood/smoke feeder that would make the MES a true set n forget smoker:
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...t=22037&page=3
purchase here..
or try Illini's contraption
http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...11&postcount=1