What can or have you done to the Shield Plus?

Can you take out the 9mm barrel an mags on the Shield Plus, an put in a 30 super Carry Barrel an mags an convert it..
Or is there some other things that would need to be done..?

You could have it cerakoted in green and purple. And do the magazines in neon orange. I wouldn't recommend it, but you could do it.

No. 30SC is a narrower case, so it requires a different breach face. Yout need a 30SC slide, barrel, and mags to convert.

Why convert a shield Plus they're perfect as is they just need a little beauty treatment

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Heck, once you go that far, you probably wouldn't be too far off from just buying a new 30 SC model. They've been going for as low as $300 lately.

The trick is to buy the 30SC shield and then snag a cheap 9 slide and barrel.

I put a red dot on it.. shot the hell out of it.. and carry it when I am not carrying my 3913.. what else do you think it needs?

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I too just put a red dot on a Plus Comp Carry Shield I bought over the weekend. Shot irons over the weekend, put dot on yesterday late and plan on zeroing in soon..
I’m a trigger snob. And i gotta tell you, short of the Canik Rival S I have, the two new M&Ps in my stable have damn good striker fired triggers (Shield Plus comp and an M&P Comp Carry 2.0) for factory trigger pistols.

I don’t plan on changing anything on this shield. Just buy more ammo and enjoy.
I’m at about 100 or so trouble free rounds so far, between target FMJ and a few mags of Speer JHP +p ammo. Great shooting Micro, very happy so far.

All I did was put on some Dawson fiber optic front/black rear sights and shoot it. I am getting easy hits on 8" steel targets from 35 yards probably 75% or more of the time and I'm no marksman.

Mine has fed every 9mm ammo I have fed it, including 115 gr. steel cased ammo, 147 jhp, 124+p Speer, and 124 standard HST.

I had an original Shield and either it or I was not very accurate, causing me to sell it. I'm guessing the improved trigger has a lot to do with my improvement.

I upgraded the trigger to an overwatch precision and put a Holosun 507k on it. Love shooting mine got over 2.5k rounds through it.

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I don’t know why… I totally forgot about Overwatch.
At the time, I had the Steel competitor when it just hit the shelves a year or two back.
Overwatch was the only company that had anything for it, way before Apex… I went with their kit and it was amazing…

I totally forgot about that until I saw that red safety blade..

I may just think about their kit for my Shield Plus… I liked it that much.

I bought mine from a online reseller and it was like $50 off list price "clearance" so at $100 plus the gunsmith cost it was worth every penny.

M'Carbo has a spring kit which I bought but ultimately just went with the overwatch kit.

Only thing I did to my shield plus was buy a holster for it, and 15 round mags. Everything else is perfect in my eyes.

Put Holosun K series dot optic on it.

Bought a stripped 4" slide for it, then all the parts to build up the slide and put a K series on it and it still rides like that.

Liked it so much I figured I needed a spare/back up for it so now I have two of them. Same 4" slide and same parts to build it up but it sits on a .30 SC frame.

I converted two Shield Plus mags. to .40 S&W and bought a .40 S&W slide/barrel for a Shield. Works great. Only problem is the .40/9MM geometry doesn't work as well in the Shield Plus magazine as it does in the full sized gun magazines. There's not a -2 round penalty for .40 vs. the 9MM. It's more because the magazine is thinner to start with. I can only get 11 rounds of .40 in a converted 15 round Shield Plus magazine. Only took it to the range a couple times. Need to convert two or three more magazines.

And, the holes aren't in the right spot to count rounds with .40 vs. 9MM.



The Shield Plus frame with the .40 S&W top end on it. If it keeps working well I'll be getting the slide milled for a 407K, or an EPS carry (same foot print.) Sorry, this is the other one. A Shield .40 slide with a threaded .357 SIG barrel and compensator. My wife says she can tell the difference between this one and a 9MM but it's not bad at all when shooting it.



Really, an 11+1 .357 SIG or .40 in a package as small as the Shield Plus isn't a bad thing.

Funny…I found it from that online at clearance prices.
They also had Blazer 124 for 10.99 a box, so I loaded up a little bit. Good call… thank you.

I am pleased with my M&P PC Shield Plus 9mm just as it is...for the most part. No major mods required. I thought that the safety lever was a little small and somewhat difficult to operate, so I installed a larger aftermarket 1911-style safety lever. I also had a little trouble gripping and racking the slide, so I installed a TALON textured slide grip. That's it!

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What did you do today modify the magazines? And what. 357sig barrel are you using? I have a pc shield 40, and would love the extra capacity and the newer factory trigger. Knowing that this is doable makes me a very happy camper. Does it run reliably with the .40/.357sig?

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.357 SIG barrel is from a company called TR Enabling. They do not seem to keep many barrels in stock/available to buy but they usually have some, maybe just not what you need at the time.

The magazine has to be modified. Those little vertical indentions in the straight section just above the taper have to be removed. I used a file on one magazine and I used a hammer and wide common screwdriver on the other magazine. Both worked.

What little I've shot it (two range trips) it worked fine. Be aware that reloads in .357 SIG (loaded for my FNS and M31) are just a bit too long to fit into the magazine. Factory .357 SIG ammo worked fine.

I ran into issues on the 3rd magazine I attempted to convert. I don't know if it's the magazine or the ammo (never got around to measuring it before getting involved in some other projects. The issue was that every so often the rim of the .40 S&W cases would hang up at the back of the magazine. I don't know if that one magazine was just a tiny bit narrower at the back or if that box of ammo had a few rounds where the rim was a tiny bit larger in diameter. Since then I've been putting other stuff together and just haven't gotten back to it. And had some medical issues as well.

I'd have to shoot it a lot more with the two mags. that worked to say I'd trust carrying it. And get the slide milled for a K series Holosun.

It's fun doing stuff like that.

Put an Overwatch trigger and kit into mine tonight, good improvement…but…
With the Overwatch return spring, the return was laggy at the end of the release…to the fact the trigger safety didn’t engage each time.
I tore it down, made sure the spring was on correct, drop of oil here or there, no burrs…nothing. No matter what I tried, could not get it to reset all the way, cleanly.

At this point, it was a 3.5# pull on my gauge after several trieds.

Tore it down again, put the factory return spring back in, bumped it up to 4# pull, and reset perfect every time.

Range time tomorrow.. but just a heads up. My shield 2.0 Plus comp does have a 10 degree striker, but did not have a rounded plunger on it.
So I used the plunger and spring from the kit.
Glad I have a sight press tool.. way easier then hammer and punch.
Hitting the range tomorrow to get a few hundred down the pipe…

Really impressed with this pistol, it carries really nice and shoot outstanding as well.

I had a gunsmith do the install for me so I have no idea if he ran into any of those issues. My trigger pull went to just around 4lbs with my lousy gauge. I'd be ok with 3.5 but not much lower. I was happy with the 4lbs as it was about a 1lb lower than before the work.

Pictures and the range update would be cool!

Hawg Rider - tell me about that aftermarket safety. Brand? Seller? Etc.

Thanks,

I do all my own work.. to be honest, a few YouTube videos for anything you don’t/can’t foresee. For example, on a Shield, the take down lever needs to be rotated to a certain degree, it has a block or a tab on it, that needs to line up to be removed.
Don’t have that on other M&Ps, don’t have that on Sigs.. but they do on a shield . That’s the kinda stuff that’ll drive you bonkers.

Would you believe.. I got to the range to meet up with my dad, only to forget to take them out of the safe and into the range bag?
I was left only to fire my dad’s new pistol, a full size M&P Tennessee edition… and another EDC, my C2.. so range time again tomorrow morning, report soon!!

Solid day at the range.
Put a solid 150 or so with the new Shield Plus, the only issue I had?
I had other pistols in the bag getting jealous, with mags pre-loaded for the trip.
Solid shooter, we’ve all seen targets, with a 2.5” Splatter circle, 5 to 10 yards, (and with a red dot) 10 out of 10 shots on the circle when I did my part. Of course, a flinch, forget to breathe, dip, etc., off.
10 to 20 yards out…very consistent, not as tight of a grouping. Which.. is beyond normal/common self defense distance.
Can it hit a silhouette at that distance and further? Absolutely..

My practice is 10 yards and in with the smaller guns. Double taps within a 6inch circle..

I don’t know why I kinda strayed away from S&W..but I’m sure glad I found my way back.

Very nice, sounds like a great day at the range. Yeah I have to leave other pistols at home sometimes or it distracts me from my training goals.