78 years old, high blood pressure, wear glasses but absolutely in love with the shield plus carry comp after more range time today..

Either blessed or lucky...but my two Shield Plus handguns are totally malfunction free and my Reguler Shield plus has over 500 rounds and my new Shield Plus carry comp now has over 200 rounds.

Not to shabby for an old fart...

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Hipcocked & Locked

Nice shootin .

Don't have the Cary Comp but my Shield Plus is my daily carry and a good shooter as well.

Congrats. I have two 4" Shield Plus pistols, and they are awesome.

Over a year ago, I would have jumped at this new Carry Comp Shield Plus... .

But, the carry comp is really a ported gun... And, no more ported carry guns for me.

Believe it or not - around Feb 2023, I was shooting my 3.1" Performance Center Ported Shield Plus 9mm. And, I had a piece of metal hit me in the eye after the gun fired. I had to stop shooting and immediately find an eye doctor (not easy to do on a Sat morning). Apparently, it took a chunk out of the surface of my eye ball. It healed up fast with some prescription eye drops, but damn did it hurt. And, I got very lucky.

I wear normal eye glasses, so I have never worn shooters glasses for the previous 30 years of shooting. But, this came in over the top of my glasses and got me in right in the eyeball.

The eye doctor thought it was a brass casing that hit me in the eye - but I knew it wasn't. I never felt a casing bounce down my face after it hit me. I just didn't really have an explanation....

Months later, I watched a YouTube video. The silly guy on the video shot a ported handgun up against his body - point blank up to a target. He did it to show that small metal pieces come out of the ports on the barrel. He had several tiny, tiny pieces of metal embed themselves into his arm (I think he had goggles on and had his eyes closed). He showed video of it, and said it took time for many of the pieces to come out of his skin on their own.

When I saw that, I instantly knew what had happened. It was a small, shaved piece of a bullet that hit me in the eye.

Now, I actually wear goggles over my eye glasses, when I am at the range (they are chemist goggles with small air valves - to help them from fogging up). I tried a few different eye protection glasses that go over glasses, but would still get small particles getting me from the gun powder and the dirty air at my local indoor range. The goggles look silly, but they work.

Anyway, after that, I was lucky I wasn't blinded. I don't use ported barrels anymore.

Glad you came away ok....does sound painful...would imagine under those circumstances anyone might have the same feelings...

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To the OP, yes the Carry Comp is a good flat shooter.

I've got three ported barrel guns, a Shield Plus Carry Comp, a PC Shield Plus with a 4" ported barrel and a PC Shield 2.0 with a 3.1" ported barrel. I'm very careful with the ammo I run through these after seeing the warning on Blazer 9mm target ammo boxes several years ago. They say, not for guns with ported barrels.

I also saw an article saying Blazer was using a thin plating or coating on their bullets instead of jackets (not sure if that's true or not). There were also reported cases of fragments/slivers of the coating coming off when fired from ported barrels. So, if your ammo says not to use in ported barrels, I wouldn't.

I've never had a problem or seen evidence of fragmenting from firing Remington, Winchester, Fiocchi, or other target brands without a warning, in my ported barrels.

To shipwreck, glad you weren't seriously hurt. I too, always wear safety glasses over my prescription lenses and recommend it.

I do like ported barrels and compensators, just be conscious of any warnings on your ammo.

Thanks....

I found that video of the guy injured by the ported gun: - Go to 13:30 on this video:

(I am not a big fan of this guy, but this video is interesting)

Minute of center mass is plenty good enough.
Thanks for the review - optical dot or iron sights?

From the factory sights.....
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Can't really justify optical Dot sight on a self defense carry handgun as good as this one shoots.......

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Glad you didn’t suffer lasting damage. Are you saying the Shield Carry Comp is ported because the port is part of the barrel instead of a separate, screw on piece? The Carry Comp I have is back bored where the port is, so in essence the rifling is about 3.5” long with the last half inch over bored. It seems less likely a bullet could shave off pieces passing by, where as in the 3.1” barreled PC that’s not the case.

I will agree that the Carry Comp is less likely to have this issue. But, it is not a real compensator. It is just 1 giant port on the barrel.

I don't believe it to be as safe as a true comp.

Had this never happened to me, I would already own a Shield with the Carry Comp. I like the larger slide Shield Plus pistols. I have two 4" PC ones.