sad but true...CSX e-series may have to go...

[dben002]

I do love it for some valid reasons....feels good....very accurate...13/16 or 18 rounds on board...conceals well at IWBA....has a great trigger.
Downsize for me personally....drawing and releasing safety....
No matter how much I train the safety leaver is so small that depending on my extraction grip I may miss the safety entirely or
my thumb slips off of it before it is disengaged.


Does not happen a lot, but happens enough to make me weary of what could happen in a life or death stressful event.
So I have to consider saying goodbye my friend and revert to my Shield Plus (NTS). It is currently waiting in the safe waiting for me
to decide.......

As much as I hate to admit it, I feel much more confident and safer with the Shield Plus as I have carried it for 2 years and it has
never given me a failure of any kind.....

Missing the safety disengage is a failure....on my part....but a failure none the less....and if it can't be 100 percent 100 percent of the time
then I think it has to go.......hate it but that's life......

 

[Indynick]

Does your Shield Plus have a safety? I frequently missed the safety on my 1.0 Shield, so I stopped carrying it. The safety on the CSX is much easier to sweep off, in my experience.

 

[dben002]

Does your Shield Plus have a safety? I frequently missed the safety on my 1.0 Shield, so I stopped carrying it. The safety on the CSX is much easier to sweep off, in my experience.

My Shield Plus is no thumb safety model.

 

[Tanners Owner]

I recently bought one, but have not shot it yet. Hope to tomorrow.

I agree the safety is small, and it’s not easily engaged, but in my dry firing I found it disengages easily. I’ll find out what I need to practice on with my draw tomorrow

 

[dben002]

I recently bought one, but have not shot it yet. Hope to tomorrow.

I agree the safety is small, and it’s not easily engaged, but in my dry firing I found it disengages easily. I’ll find out what I need to practice on with my draw tomorrow

Glad to hear you got one they are really nice and I agree with you about dry firing and range usage. Going slow and deliberately the safety is not a problem but I have found that in a stressful situation having to quick draw and disengage the safety is occasionally a problem... for me anyway......and that occasional misfire on disengaging the trigger could be very dangerous. A slow extraction and attention to detail and the safety is not a problem so I have to decide if I can live with slow and deliberate extraction

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Build a shelf on it with JB weld or get someone to tack weld a shelf on the original safety........Lots pf solutions to your perceived problem.

 

[Markmontana]

Just not a fan of the CSX but I wanted to be. Because I’m 1911 oriented I liked the concept. Bought the first generation but for some reason couldn’t shoot it with any accuracy. Got frustrated and sold it . Haven’t tried the Gen 2 but from what I’ve been reading haven’t heard anything that makes want to get one.

 

[Patrip]

I bought one of the first .40 Shields and it came with the thumb safety. Could not remember if it was up or down for fire/safe. So sold it and got one with no safety. Still have it. Great gun