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Old 04-02-2017, 03:41 PM
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Hi there - my wife and I each have a 40 Baretta 96A - got her a 9mm ported shield for better cc for her. Took it to the range yesterday with nothing but issues. Rounds failing to get to the barrel on first pull, breach staying open with still more rounds to fire- a little frustrated. Filled and emptied the magazines about 6 times each before going to the range. Any advice would be great!

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Old 04-02-2017, 05:33 PM
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Old 04-02-2017, 06:51 PM
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Old 04-02-2017, 07:14 PM
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Old 04-02-2017, 08:16 PM
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Old 04-02-2017, 08:47 PM
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Welcome from NW Michigan. Sorry to hear about the troubles with the shield. Is that shield new? I'd return it to s&w for evaluation. I believe most have been quite trouble free and reliable. I have a 9 shield that so far has been 100%. Keep us updated
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Old 04-02-2017, 09:25 PM
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Welcome to the forum.

If you peruse the appropriate section, there are several threads mentioning the same issues your experiencing. I think at least one post mentioned the slide got stuck on the barrel, near the chamber.

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Old 04-03-2017, 06:47 AM
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That Shield has to go back to S&W. I don't have one but I've heard of very few problems with them.
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Old 04-03-2017, 08:39 PM
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Old 04-04-2017, 10:37 AM
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Old 04-04-2017, 11:04 AM
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Old 04-04-2017, 04:18 PM
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Old 04-04-2017, 04:34 PM
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Welcome. As others have stated, let Smith look at it.

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Old 04-04-2017, 08:23 PM
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Old 04-16-2017, 11:49 AM
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Old 04-18-2017, 06:59 AM
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Tzagaros, i think in order to accomadate a powerful round like the 9mm in such a small gun like the shield, the gun makers have had to really beef up the recoil spring and other springs to get these guns to work right. Even the magazine spring is beefed up to throw the round up faster because of the short 3" bbl. the result is a verry stiff gun, the slide , loading the mag, releasing the slide all these things make the gun hard to operate at first! the good news is it will get better! the Shield is a good gun. The key is to keep the gun really lubed and keep working the slide, also for a couple weeks when not using it keep the slide locked open! this seems to loosen the recoil spring. Hope this makes sense to you. It is not an easy task to make these small guns to shoot loads like the 9mm and 45. Frogman
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Old 04-20-2017, 04:38 PM
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