Well, I picked it up from jail on Weds after thee longest 10 days I've ever spent and ran to the range yesterday!
This gun is amazing, it feels natural in your hands and it shoots like a charm!
Trigger pull feels alot lighter than the what is posted on the spec sheet at S&W's website!
Put 200 rds of Sellior and Bellot, 115gn RN through it with only a handful of hiccups (FTF's and 2 stove pipes) that I attribute to the magazines. I've never seen a magazine with such strong springs before. It was literally harder to load the bullets into the mags than it's ever been on any my 1911 mags.
I think I might've found the feeding issue. While cleaning the gun, I kept running through my head what other possibilities could lead to the my FTF's and stove pipes other than not breaking in the mags properly? I was told today that you should take new mags and load them and let them sit for a week or two to break them in.....never heard that before but I'm willing to try it!
So I decided to look at the ammo to see if there was any differences between the two manufacturer's and sure enough...the S&B was longer, even to the naked eye....so I got out the micrometer to measure the COAL of the Sellier and Bellot rounds vs the Remington UMC rounds vs what the Speer #14 reloading manual says and this is what I found...
S&B = 1.158"
Remy UMC = 1.124"
Speer Manual = 1.135"
I'm no Einstein, but .034" is huge..see pic
So that's telling me that the S&B's are too long and more than likely the cause for the issues.
I've got both mag's fully loaded to compress the springs and will take the Shield back out next week and run only Remy through it and see if the problems persist.
Here are some pics of the Shield and of my handiwork. As you can see as the day progressed and the greater the distance, my groupings started to diminish. That's o.k., I don't plan on using the Shield as a home defense weapon and there are no 15 yd straight line of sights in my house anyway....nuk, nuk, nuk!
Think I'm going to go back to my LGS and see about getting a full size M&P 9mm to go along with this one!
This gun is amazing, it feels natural in your hands and it shoots like a charm!
Trigger pull feels alot lighter than the what is posted on the spec sheet at S&W's website!
Put 200 rds of Sellior and Bellot, 115gn RN through it with only a handful of hiccups (FTF's and 2 stove pipes) that I attribute to the magazines. I've never seen a magazine with such strong springs before. It was literally harder to load the bullets into the mags than it's ever been on any my 1911 mags.
I think I might've found the feeding issue. While cleaning the gun, I kept running through my head what other possibilities could lead to the my FTF's and stove pipes other than not breaking in the mags properly? I was told today that you should take new mags and load them and let them sit for a week or two to break them in.....never heard that before but I'm willing to try it!
So I decided to look at the ammo to see if there was any differences between the two manufacturer's and sure enough...the S&B was longer, even to the naked eye....so I got out the micrometer to measure the COAL of the Sellier and Bellot rounds vs the Remington UMC rounds vs what the Speer #14 reloading manual says and this is what I found...
S&B = 1.158"
Remy UMC = 1.124"
Speer Manual = 1.135"
I'm no Einstein, but .034" is huge..see pic
So that's telling me that the S&B's are too long and more than likely the cause for the issues.
I've got both mag's fully loaded to compress the springs and will take the Shield back out next week and run only Remy through it and see if the problems persist.
Here are some pics of the Shield and of my handiwork. As you can see as the day progressed and the greater the distance, my groupings started to diminish. That's o.k., I don't plan on using the Shield as a home defense weapon and there are no 15 yd straight line of sights in my house anyway....nuk, nuk, nuk!
Think I'm going to go back to my LGS and see about getting a full size M&P 9mm to go along with this one!
