Yes I loved my little 40 caliber shield until this issue started happening frequently. I got to thinking about the fact that I bought this pistol for only one reason... Concealed defensive carry. Of coarse I shoot it at the range because I have multiple handguns and each one shoots different than the other so of course although I hope and pray the situation never arrives and I do have to defend a life against a gun in the hands of a mentally disturbed individual but it happens to someone most everyday. Now with that said, as I said before I have multiple handguns and with the exception of my Shield, all my handguns all but one ( M&P Shield) are Sigs, I saw a friends Shield and thought it was a nice little gun and decided to go out and buy one for myself, after several hundred rounds being fired through it all of a sudden the magazine starts dropping out. Well after this began to happen I could not get two thoughts out of my mind #1, what happens if lord forbid the situation does arrive and I have to use a gun in defense and it happens to be that it happened on a day that I was carrying my Shield, I pull it out and fire one round and the magazine hits the floor, next second I am dead because I had an inferior defense weapon with me at the time. Now to my second thought... Why did I ever put myself in this situation to begin with when I KNOW that there is NO EXCEPTION for a Sig Sauer... PERIOD!!! I would never sell someone a gun for defense that I know may or may not do its job if it was ever needed, so two things resulted from my purchase of my Smith & Wesson M&P Shield... #1 I have a very expensive pistol that is only 100% reliable to use as a paper weight and #2... Why did I waste almost $500 on a Shield, when I should have wisely spent close to $1000 on another Sig or better yet not bothered because their is NO better conceal carry handgun than the Sig P239 SAS Gen2 357sig that I had been carrying to begin with, not only is my Sig reliable ALWAYS but also is a handgun with a 3.3" barrel, and is not as accurate but noticeably MORE accurate than any and all full size S&W handguns I've shot. I would never be out without my Sig, there just is no substitute for a Sig Sauer. Sure you may pay twice the price but the old saying about getting what you pay for is a very true one and I may have paid more than twice the amount of money for my Sig P239 SAS but at the same time, I did by far get more than twice the reliability, accuracy and all around quality than I did when I bought my $450 Smith & Wesson paper weight... A mistake I WILL NOT make again... ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE DIFFFERENCE OF EITHER LIVE OR DIE!! I CHOOSE LIFE EVERY TIME!!!
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