Shield High Round Counts
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SoCalDep
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We tested two to around 15,000 and 18,000 rounds. The white dot came out of one and when the armory took them back one of my partners was carrying one of them as an off-duty gun. Definitely good enough for me!
shakyshoot
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Probably hasn't been out long enough for most people to approach 10k rounds. On the other hand, I don't think it's the kind of pistol that people shoot a few times and stick in a drawer. Pistols like pocket .380's, I'd be surprised if many people put 1000 through them. The Shield is fun to shoot for it's own sake, not just a self defense tool. I bought mine almost exactly a year ago, and I'm at 1700 rounds. Mine shows virtually no wear. Honestly, if you get 5000 rounds through a $350 pistol, you've got your moneys worth. That's 7 cents a round vs about 25 cents for cheap range ammo.
Rastoff
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Any carry gun should be shot a lot.
Mine (9mm) is about 6k rounds, mostly Agulia 124gr and Win white box 124gr NATO. ( my SD ammo is 124gr P+, so I'm training with the similar loads)
My shield developed some FTE/FTF at about 5k rounds. For some reason S&W replace the slide and the barrel. So the count before developing any issues was about 5,000. I'm happy with S&W service so. The last 1000 rounds were flawless.
I'm not sure if using NATO specs (P+) rounds played any role in failure issue. I also used mix of SD rounds (no more than 400-600 rounds though) of HST 124gr P+, HST 147gr and Hornady Critical Duty 135gr P+. Possibly if I used only 115 gr target ammo I would not had any issues, but it's nice to know that short barrel Shield can take some decent "abuse" with 124gr P+ and 147gr ammo
My shield developed some FTE/FTF at about 5k rounds. For some reason S&W replace the slide and the barrel. So the count before developing any issues was about 5,000. I'm happy with S&W service so. The last 1000 rounds were flawless.
I'm not sure if using NATO specs (P+) rounds played any role in failure issue. I also used mix of SD rounds (no more than 400-600 rounds though) of HST 124gr P+, HST 147gr and Hornady Critical Duty 135gr P+. Possibly if I used only 115 gr target ammo I would not had any issues, but it's nice to know that short barrel Shield can take some decent "abuse" with 124gr P+ and 147gr ammo
