Mine shoots 100% on any ammo I put through it. It is ergonomically wonderful and easy to shoot, easy to conceal.

It is just about my favorite CCW gun...if only I had not been ruined by my HK P7. After the P7, nothing else will quite measure up, but the Shield is 2nd place in my book.

Mine has a serial number of XXX00003 (I put XXX in there in place of the letters) so I think it is an early manufacture, but I don't know what the letters mean so it could be a later series.

I say get it as soon as you can find one in stock anywhere, you won't be sorry. Smith & Wesson knocked it out of the park on this one.