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Old 08-13-2012, 08:06 PM
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I'm a Shield 40 owner completely happy with my pistol, and have had zero problems with around 800 rounds downrange. Also have a full size M&P 40 so I can keep my ammo consistent.

If you follow these threads, you're probably also aware that you can change out the 9mm and 40 caliber barrels in the same Shield frame, providing essentially two pistols in one. You have to change magazines too, of course, and whether the mag drop problem that SOME of the Shields have had would be an issue by doing this, I don't know. (If the mag release in the frame is the problem in those .40s, then perhaps it wouldn't be if you used a 40 mag in a 9mm frame.) The 9mm Shields don't seem to have had the mag drop problem.

Anybody tried ordering a 40 barrel and/or mags from S&W to trade out in a 9mm frame, or vice versa?
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