Originally Posted by OKFC05

For range practice and most purposes, +1 loading is pointless. I have had students who were so eaten up with +1 loading that they could not get through a live-fire exercise for struggling with their gun.


If you want to load a "Barney bullet" for carry, use the process described above, and make sure the magazine is fully latched in. It is hilarious on the range when the magazine falls free at the first shot, maybe not so funny to the shooter.
Be aware that +1 loading requires more care (and more force) and tends to have more malfunctions.


And in case you are wondering, I load my Shield for carry with a 7-round magazine and load from an open slide: 6+1.
And I only carry the 7 round magazines because in shooting the Shield in IDPA/BUG because I discovered the 8 rounders are a PIA to speed reload the gun. If you want to find out how well your rig works under some (simulated) pressure, try shooting IDPA with it.