Recent content by hotrail

Great outcome -- really pleased with this Shield So to follow up on my original post and share the outcome, I took the advice above and today I installed the Apex sear. Installation is fairly easy and there are plenty of videos out there on youtube, probably the best one is by Apex. I...

Glock trigger spring? Is this a common mod for the Shield? Is there a part # for it?

Thanks to all who replied, I appreciate the ton of good information. While I bought my first S&W revolver more than 30 years ago, this Shield is my first S&W semi-auto. Also I gotta say the group here is awesome. If I posted my original, somewhat off-base question on certain other forums, I...

OK, I thought I was getting the trigger safety, but I went back to the bench and tried again. The face of the trigger is very smooth, and has a lot of curve, which was making my trigger gauge ride up, despite my best efforts, and I was not releasing the trigger safety. So in fact it is...

This gun is SKU #187021 - "M&P9 Shield CA compliant". I looked at the Smith & Wesson web site and do not see any specification for the trigger pull weight of this model.

Just got a M&P Shield 9mm. Now I know the triggers are not light, and the action is not ideal, but I am really surprised at how hard this gun is to shoot. I measured the trigger pull when I first brought it home, and I can't even measure it. My Timney trigger pull gauge only goes up to 10...