Roskoe115
Member
Yesterday I got my hands on a M&P Shield Performance Center 9mm. This makes my 3rd shield, I already have a .40, 9mm, and now the PC 9mm. I carry the 9mm all day every day and love it. So when I was roaming local gun stores yesterday I came across the performance center model and was pretty impressed so decided I couldn't live without it.
Shot around 200 rounds out of the PC and also side by side with my older 9mm shield and here's what I found.
It is significantly different in muzzle rise and its ability to get back on target. It shoots so flat (as if the stock version didn't).
Honestly can tell a very small difference in trigger from the stock shield but that could be due to my sausage finger.
The sights... well they are atrocious. S&W really dropped the ball on this one. The tube housings looks cool but that does you no good in shoot ability. They are so dark even in a well lit gun range, it makes me nervous to have to use it a low light situation. Honestly would rather have the white dots from the factory but will be buying new night sights soon. The green tube on the front gets dirty fast which is to be expected from the ports but you can't hardly get it clean after the fact. Just stays dirty up underneath it. Also the sight housings are almost a brown color.
Overall, well worth the extra money. It's just $90 extra and most of us make more of it every day.
Be prepared to hate the sights.
Enjoy the fire coming from the top of the barrel.
Gun is extremely manageable.
Gets back on target in a hurry.
Buy one if you can find one.
I am not a professional gun reviewer by any means so take my findings however you would like, just trying to pass on what was found. I'm a average shooter and a daily carrier. NO tacticool pants and decals all over my truck windows referring to gun companies. I work safely and even unload guns before I take a picture of them. There are times I find brodouches making reviews that are way way to technical. Hope this helps with some decisions.
Note: I will post more pictures below, only allowing me to post one in this message.
Shot around 200 rounds out of the PC and also side by side with my older 9mm shield and here's what I found.
It is significantly different in muzzle rise and its ability to get back on target. It shoots so flat (as if the stock version didn't).
Honestly can tell a very small difference in trigger from the stock shield but that could be due to my sausage finger.
The sights... well they are atrocious. S&W really dropped the ball on this one. The tube housings looks cool but that does you no good in shoot ability. They are so dark even in a well lit gun range, it makes me nervous to have to use it a low light situation. Honestly would rather have the white dots from the factory but will be buying new night sights soon. The green tube on the front gets dirty fast which is to be expected from the ports but you can't hardly get it clean after the fact. Just stays dirty up underneath it. Also the sight housings are almost a brown color.
Overall, well worth the extra money. It's just $90 extra and most of us make more of it every day.
Be prepared to hate the sights.
Enjoy the fire coming from the top of the barrel.
Gun is extremely manageable.
Gets back on target in a hurry.
Buy one if you can find one.
I am not a professional gun reviewer by any means so take my findings however you would like, just trying to pass on what was found. I'm a average shooter and a daily carrier. NO tacticool pants and decals all over my truck windows referring to gun companies. I work safely and even unload guns before I take a picture of them. There are times I find brodouches making reviews that are way way to technical. Hope this helps with some decisions.
Note: I will post more pictures below, only allowing me to post one in this message.
