Hello friends. I decided to do a little mod I had in mind for a while, but didn't decide to do until a friend and I were practicing weapon manipulations for so long, my hands got real sweaty and tired. Around 5 hours, non stop. I don't usually go that long.

The magazine became hard to push, as my hands got sweatier. I am aware that an enhancement is on the market, but my thumb reaches it just fine, so I never got one. So I decided to add a little grip. I stippled the face, and then added 3 directional lines. It's like it's sticky.

It's worked well and I think anyone who isn't interested in the catalyst, would love this. S&W sent me a free magazine release to practice on, so it won't cost a thing.





The stippling, alone, wasn't good enough. Adding these gashes made all of the difference. Hope this helps at all.

Looks great!! I'm sure you will love the improvement in performance

Looks like a product you could sell easily.

Thanks fellas. It's the best mod I've done to any of my firearms. You never REALLY know what you need till you spend a lot of time with a weapon. I've wasted a bit of money on things I thought I needed. This was free.

t bell, you could probably do this yourself, but if you're interested, pay the postage and I'll ship the spare to you, blank or modded. Free of coarse.

how did you did the lines? flat screwdriver maybe? thanks

No. There is a soldering iron that comes with different tips. You can get it at Lowes for 15, or one with a temp control at a hobby shot for 20. I used the flat tip. Kind of like a flat head screw driver. It's really easy but if you want it done, have S&W send me the a spare mag release, and I'll do it and ship it to you the same day. No charge. Just pay shipping. S&W should give it to you for free. Have a good day.

And why should S&W give you one for free? You said S&W gave you one to practice on? What did you tell the to get one for free?

Not should, as in it'd be wrong if they don't, but they sent me mine free of charge, and countless others report parts being sent, no questions asked. All I did was ask them if they could sell me the mag release separately and the gentleman asked me for my address and said it's on the way. Very nice folks.

Is your M&P a 9C? The shield magazine release is steel and I do not think a soldering iron would touch it. Thanks for the response.

The one in the photo is the 5" CORE but I did this mod to my 9c, as well. I'm sure this can be accomplished on a steel mag release, with a Dremel, or machines I use at work. If you have a Dremel, and attempt it, please let me know the outcome. Thanks.

The shield magazine release is just like the other M&P magazine releases. Its not steel.

That's what I originally thought, but figured something changed.

BTW, although I am sure almost everyone here can do this yourselves, if you can't, for any reason, the same offer is extended to you. Just send the part and 3-5 for shipping and I'll do it for free.

So, you're saying S&W is wrong if I asked to get every single part I wanted and they won't send it to me? I would call S&W to replace a broken part or worn out part. But to call them and get what ever I wanted is dumb. I want to keep prices down on S&W products. These FREE parts cost money, taking advantage of getting FREE parts because you want to will drive the prices up eventually.

Are you serious? Read my post again. If you have, read it again. I am clarifying that when I used the word "should", it was not in the context that it would be wrong of them not to give it for free. I was stunned to had received the part for free, but called with my bank card ready to pay. Also, I don't think you'd have to worry about prices on S&W small parts rising. It is common practice for them to give these small parts away. Prices would have rissen by now, as much as they give them away. Trust me, I'm not special. A quick google search will show that many MANY people are sent small parts free of charge. It's just them being generous to those who buy their products.

Right here you said it yourself. And I think you're wrong about companies giving free parts away for being generous to customers. If that were true. Midway, brownells , etc companies wouldn't be in business.

Also, I'm not taking advantage of ANYTHING. They offered it to me when I intended to pay for it. Other than frame plugs, I haven't received anything from them and don't call them asking for parts, unless I need the part. Taking advantage? You may have simply misunderstood my post, otherwise, please don't high jack my thread, instigating confrontation with allegations. Thanks.

Yea, NOT, being the key word. NOT "should" as if it'd be wrong if they didn't.

Here you go again. I'm simply stating they were generous to give people small parts. That's it. I don't know what your problem is, but I'm dropping out of this ridiculous exchange you've instigated. Please have a great day and try and be possitive throught it. God bless.

My Shield magazine release is steel.

Interesting. Are you happy with it? If not, do you have any plans to enhance it?

Show us a pic of your "steel" magazine release.

I haven't taken my mag release off my shield or used a magnet to test it but when I tried to stipple it I couldn't get it done.

There is metal inside the magazine for the spring. The outside is polymer. You should be able to use a soldering iron on it. Unless yours didn't get hot enough.

Just looked closely at mine and the part of the mag release that makes contact with the mag inside the mag well appears to be metal and a magnet does stick to the outside portion of the release you press with your thumb. Never gave it much thought as it appears to be polymer at first glance...

The mag release button on my Shield certainly does appear to be steel. A magnet sticks to it very readily. Mine is fairly new, I bought it a week ago. Maybe they changed them to steel now.

Just look at my post yesterday "shield for lefty's" and you will see it is steel. It took quite a bit of grinding with my belt sander to get the results pictured. I like the polished look but you could dye the button to make it look like the rest of the frame. Mine was purchased over a year ago. Hope this helps.

I was able to do this to it

It was hot!!!!

I think someone has a burr under their saddle! If you all think about it a bit, it is often cheaper for a merchant to just give you a $2 product than to put it through their accounting system.

I don't know what the current figure is but many years ago, purchasing professionals figured that it cost a company $75 to cut and process purchase order. So, from a buying side, a 2$ purchase really costs the company $77. The same relationship likely exists going the other direction. Many companies I dealt with had a minimum order amount that they would accept for just that reason.

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Not sure what sort of incompetent company has a $75 cost to pick an order. I guess instead of vilifying vendors for having $6 shipping on a $10 item we should hail them as philanthropists.
That number is plainly ridiculous.
No question that the mag release on my Shield is steel, not polymer. Sounds weird, but I tongue-tested it. Took it out of my spare bedroom (which is unheated and currently about 45 degrees. I can plainly feel the cold metal on my tongue. Slide-cold, grip-warm, mag base-warm, Mag release-cold.
-13 here in Minnesota, so don't put your tongue on the flagpole.

Man, people relax. So many people on the internet hang on every word and look for a chance to pounce on another, to call another guy out and try to make him feel stupid. Good thing these silly debates don't happen at the gun range in person with live ammo. We have more in common than we have differences.