M&P Shield: Removing the Slide.

[greg_r]

My 40 Shield was the same way when I first bought it. Hard to take down and reassemble. Slide felt like it was hitting a hard stop. It gets better with use, no problems now. Just a break in issue, I believe.

 

[Donn]

The recoil spring's very stiff, so are the ones in the Shield mags. If you still can't disassemble the weapon after watching the vid, there may be a problem with it. I do know if you don't operate the decocking lever in the mag well, the slide won't come off any size/model M&P.

 

[oldIrish]

First was my M&P FS40. Read the manual, followed the instructions, everything went smoothly. Next, the Shield40.
Same process, same results. Next, the M&P22. But, I apparently became an "expert" and didn't read about the differences before I tried to disassemble and clean it.
After inventing a few new words and thinking my manual
dexterity had completely abandoned me, I watched a few YouTube videos and "Read the Book". Once in awhile I don't know it all.

Keep the Shield, learn it and you'll appreciate it more and more.

 

[mailman390]

You can still email S&W with your mailing address and model w/serial # and ask for a new recoil spring. You can use it as a backup. They will send it FREE of charge......just be prepared to wait close to a month to get it.

 

[Stratajema]

You can still email S&W with your mailing address and model w/serial # and ask for a new recoil spring. You can use it as a backup. They will send it FREE of charge......just be prepared to wait close to a month to get it.

Yeah, but call every week to verify it will be sent. S&W has been known to tell people that their request for the replacement recoil spring is being processed but then they never ever send it.

S&W could eliminate a lot of this B.S. by firing the mindless person in charge of quality control on the Shield's recoil spring assembly. The problems with it are like a bad rash.