SoCalDep
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You are wrong.
M&P Shield trigger dangerous?
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You are wrong.
Actually I stand corrected on this. Apparently the trigger safety helps prevent discharge if the pistol is dropped and strikes the ground with the barrel facing up. The striker block is designed to keep it from discharging if it lands barrel first.
This was never how the trigger safeties on striker fired weapons were ever explained to me so I just assumed what I had been told was the truth. That is what I get for not doing my own research.
scooter123
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Anyone who puts their finger on the trigger DURING the draw will eventually end up shooting themselves. Calling this a Bad Habit is something I consider an understatement, it would be more truthfully be described as Suicidal.
I don't understand the reasoning behind ANY of these "safer" triggers. Because with the exception of that stupid flipper trigger S&W uses you have to work rather hard to engage a trigger so poorly with your finger that the gun won't fire. In addition anyone who reads the internet knows full well that a stray shirt tail or draw string can snag one of these triggers during the holstering operation with the resulting shot to the leg. So, what we have are triggers that add complexity without providing any real increase in safety. In addition, in the case of S&W, we have a trigger that may result in a locked trigger for some when they really need the gun to shoot.
I don't understand the reasoning behind ANY of these "safer" triggers. Because with the exception of that stupid flipper trigger S&W uses you have to work rather hard to engage a trigger so poorly with your finger that the gun won't fire. In addition anyone who reads the internet knows full well that a stray shirt tail or draw string can snag one of these triggers during the holstering operation with the resulting shot to the leg. So, what we have are triggers that add complexity without providing any real increase in safety. In addition, in the case of S&W, we have a trigger that may result in a locked trigger for some when they really need the gun to shoot.
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I'd also wonder about the trigger in a high stress SD situation.
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My wife has both small hands an arthritis make racking a slide next to impossible for her. She has fired a number of pistols including my Glock 36 carry with 230 grain in it. at 20-25 feet she can put them all in the kill zone. I am thinking of buying her a Shield 9 mm that she has shot and likes as well as putting a small group in the chest area at 20 feet. I have fired it rapid and put them in there as well. I hope that after it breaks in the slide may loosen up enough for her to work it. I can use it as a BUG regardless. Anyone out there have a problem with the slide (women)? J.
I know my mother has a problem with slides because of arthritis. Walther is releasing a new pistol called the CCP it looks to be a nice CCW pistol. Apparently it is easy to rack the slide due to it's design. You may want to take a look at one of those.
SEMPER FI!
My wife has had reconstructive hand surgery and cannot rack the slide on either my Shield or my son's. She will not own a carry gun that she cannot operate fully and readily. She selected a Ruger LC380 because the slide is ridiculously easy to rack and she can shoot 380s all day without the pain she experiences shooting 9s.
My wife had a hard time with it. Locking the slide was practically impossible for her. She wound up buying a Walther PK 380. Extremely easy slide and she loves shooting it.
One word for those having trouble with the standard M&P trigger... "Practice!"
The trigger lock will encourage you to "learn" to automatically land your trigger finger low enough (Took me less than one magazine on my FS M&P9.), though it still won't help in getting the finger correct in the horizontal direction.
I suspect that S&W wanted to have the gun back to insure that it didn't have the trigger lock problem that resulted in the earlier recall, or to be sure something else wasn't causing interference. But, it should really be pretty obvious just how the trigger lock is intended to work, if not exactly why it is included, by a simple inspection.
The trigger lock will encourage you to "learn" to automatically land your trigger finger low enough (Took me less than one magazine on my FS M&P9.), though it still won't help in getting the finger correct in the horizontal direction.
I suspect that S&W wanted to have the gun back to insure that it didn't have the trigger lock problem that resulted in the earlier recall, or to be sure something else wasn't causing interference. But, it should really be pretty obvious just how the trigger lock is intended to work, if not exactly why it is included, by a simple inspection.
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dullh
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A trigger, any trigger is only as dangerous as the finger that's on it.
That's where you come in...
Personally I have no problem at all with the triggers on my Shields...
That's where you come in...
Personally I have no problem at all with the triggers on my Shields...
kannonvaggon
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I just got back from the range, putting another hunnert through the shield 9mm . The little bugger runs great and hits where I point it. Now that it has 500 rounds down the pipe since I got it earlier this month , I THINK it has loosened up a tad and operates very nicely.
I LIKE the trigger on the shield. It's not the SAME as a 1911, or even like my venerable 659 DA/SA trigger but it's NICE and it's been perfectly reliable and predictable.
I'm getting used to the small physical size and needing a slight change to my grip. I don't know what is "proper" but I seem to like my weak side finger on the front of the trigger guard and the weak thumb on the frame right about where the take-down latch is... excellent control of the very soft shooting little 9mm .
My only "issue" so far has been that a full magazine doesn't "like" to be inserted with a round already up the pipe and slide forward. It takes a pretty hefty "tap" to fully seat a topped off magazine, so I have to be careful to get things latched up. Maybe it will loosen up, but I not sure on that. It seats the mags easily with a locked open slide.
Anyways, I tend to LIKE the shield trigger . I haven't had a chance to try the new aluminum Apex trigger yet, but my gut is telling me to do the trigger and sear kits maybe after I get enough experience to with this piece to know if I truly would have any benefit.
I LIKE the trigger on the shield. It's not the SAME as a 1911, or even like my venerable 659 DA/SA trigger but it's NICE and it's been perfectly reliable and predictable.
I'm getting used to the small physical size and needing a slight change to my grip. I don't know what is "proper" but I seem to like my weak side finger on the front of the trigger guard and the weak thumb on the frame right about where the take-down latch is... excellent control of the very soft shooting little 9mm .
My only "issue" so far has been that a full magazine doesn't "like" to be inserted with a round already up the pipe and slide forward. It takes a pretty hefty "tap" to fully seat a topped off magazine, so I have to be careful to get things latched up. Maybe it will loosen up, but I not sure on that. It seats the mags easily with a locked open slide.
Anyways, I tend to LIKE the shield trigger . I haven't had a chance to try the new aluminum Apex trigger yet, but my gut is telling me to do the trigger and sear kits maybe after I get enough experience to with this piece to know if I truly would have any benefit.
Johnmuratore
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Geesh
I've got a 9c and a .40c and shot the heck out of both of them and the triggers never hung up, I never got hit in the face with brass, the slide never failed to lock open after the last round in the mag was fired, nothing bad ever happened.
What am I doing wrong?
I've got a 9c and a .40c and shot the heck out of both of them and the triggers never hung up, I never got hit in the face with brass, the slide never failed to lock open after the last round in the mag was fired, nothing bad ever happened.
What am I doing wrong?
PastureOfMuppets
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There you go...
... the trigger safety works.
If you really think it's off, sending it back was the right thing to do.
Absolutely - right on point. If you think you have a problem with a weapon send it to the manufacturer to be evaluated and corrected. However, I have never had any problem with my Shield.
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