A left hander's perspective on the M&P Shield

[wormraper]

for lefties I highly recommend the no safety version. I have one and couldn't be happier. No worrying if the safety is accidentally popped on in a fire fight and it's just as reliable as the regular version.

 

[Stetto]

Heh heh, I'm no lefty, but my 16 year old daughter is and she really loves my Shield 9mm. I demonstrated stance, rack, aim and shoot, and wouldn't ya know it she transposed my right hand actions flawlessly without me even having to say "but you do this opposite".

...I did get the no-safety version, no regrets.

 

[rocslide2]

NEW OWNER

I just purchased the m&p shield 9MM I am a lefty and have not been able to shoot this gun yet. I have shot my brother inlaws. I was very impressed with this little gun. I have been practicing recking and releasing. as far as dropping the mag it is with my middle finger on my left hand. the release is a little tough but Iwill keep practicing. This is all being down without ammo in the gun.

 

[dlombard]

Excellent post. Thanks for sharing your experience with it. I'm also a left-handed shooter, and found that its accuracy is amazing. You feel recoil (impossible not to) but it's the muzzle flip I hate and it does very little of that. I credit S&W's "metal framed polymer" design that makes it a very solid gun. Short barreled pistols have muzzle flash issues since there's not enough time in the barrel for the cartridge propellant to finish burning. But I think they make ammo that solves for that issue.

Reloading drills were a bit of a pickle for me, though. Kept pinching my pinky on the bottom of the grip when slapping magazines in.

Also, I found the stock trigger pull to be acceptable. On a gun this size, I would hate to have a Glock-like or 1911-like 4-4.5lb trigger pull. IMO, that's not a specification fit for an EDC CCW. Just my opinion though. The M&P Shield's stock trigger doesn't beat you up like on an SD (for which I felt compelled to use an Apex trigger mod).

If national reciprocity ever becomes a thing, this will be my daily IWB carry.