I'm going to agree with everybody else. To me, the Shield felt better then the 9c so that's what I went with. My 21yo son liked the 9c better, but, and he was honest, didn't want to stay in the Smith line because he wanted to forge his own way, got a Ruger SR9c. I like the feel, but I'm used to my Shield and the 9c feels a little big for me. A friend of ours routinely goes between a G26, G19, PM9, and a Bersa ThunderCC for his EDC. He's comfortable with all of them and usually brings them all out when we shoot and will comfortably shoot all of them. He will also bring out his G23, and some other FS guns. I guess it's what your comfortable with. Kind of like cars. Did the Honda accord go away when Honda offered the Civic?