I was posting on here back in December and early January when I was very aggressively pursuing a Shield. They were like unicorns obviously and I never did get one, and settled for a .40c (9mms were out everywhere too). Anyway, I never warmed up to the .40 and spent a lot of time with my friends 9mm glock, so I wound up selling and moving to the Glock 26 (and eventually the G17, an SP101 etc).
Lessons learned were dont settle, its much better to wait for what you want, and also you're always going to regret selling/trading a gun no matter what role it played for you as I miss them all.
Fast forward to this week; I went through a (very) miniature financial crisis after switching careers and sold off my last two handguns for a little extra padding in the account. Well as luck would have it, my best friend stumbled across a Shield 9 that he didn't necessarily need but couldn't pass up, and he told me it was mine if I wanted it and I could spread it out into a few payments the next couple weeks while this new job lines out, so voila, here I am!
Carried it for the first time yesterday, I love the slim profile but the gun is a touch heavy to me, almost as heavy as my higher capacity Glocks (and .40c). I usually AIWB or pocket carry my guns depending. Right now I'm using a generic pocket holster but plan to get a nice Desantis one, any recommendation on iwb? I haven't shot this one yet, but I have shot the Shield both in 9 and .40 that belonged to some friends and I love the way they shoot. Only other mod I'm considering is night sights of some sort (maybe a big dot), and some light stippling.
Glad to be back here, I was on the verge of becoming a Glock fan boy
Lessons learned were dont settle, its much better to wait for what you want, and also you're always going to regret selling/trading a gun no matter what role it played for you as I miss them all.
Fast forward to this week; I went through a (very) miniature financial crisis after switching careers and sold off my last two handguns for a little extra padding in the account. Well as luck would have it, my best friend stumbled across a Shield 9 that he didn't necessarily need but couldn't pass up, and he told me it was mine if I wanted it and I could spread it out into a few payments the next couple weeks while this new job lines out, so voila, here I am!
Carried it for the first time yesterday, I love the slim profile but the gun is a touch heavy to me, almost as heavy as my higher capacity Glocks (and .40c). I usually AIWB or pocket carry my guns depending. Right now I'm using a generic pocket holster but plan to get a nice Desantis one, any recommendation on iwb? I haven't shot this one yet, but I have shot the Shield both in 9 and .40 that belonged to some friends and I love the way they shoot. Only other mod I'm considering is night sights of some sort (maybe a big dot), and some light stippling.
Glad to be back here, I was on the verge of becoming a Glock fan boy
