Ed911
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Man, what a great idea...since I don't use a holster...this will work great for me. Where do I get a good large rubber band. Thanks.
Well, maybe not, but funny as hell...lol...good one.
Ed
Shield out of battery - time to revisit this issue
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Man, what a great idea...since I don't use a holster...this will work great for me. Where do I get a good large rubber band. Thanks.
Well, maybe not, but funny as hell...lol...good one.
Ed
Good news or bad one first?
Full mag does not change anything until a round is loaded to barrel, so it still has OOB
Good news or bad one first?
Full mag does not change anything until a round is loaded to barrel, so it still has OOB
And maybe, just maybe, it's still not an actual "problem" as long as it's only something that happens when you intentionally try to make it happen.
All the out-of-battery checks I've ever been taught in armorer classes involve doing it with an empty chamber, looking to check for intended disconnect function, not using dummy rounds to see if extractor friction can cause it when SLOWLY (improperly) checking for FEEDING & LOCKING. Such feeding checks with dummy rounds are done at the "normal" speed, meaning letting the slide run forward so proper "timing" occurs.
It worries me about having a slide/barrel pushed out-of-battery by contact about as much as it worries me to have a cylinder stopped in its rotation during a DA/DAO trigger press by someone grabbing it.
I make sure it doesn't happen during proper holstering, and then I don't worry about it happening at some other time.
FWIW, I can still MAKE this sort of thing happen with some different pistols, if I try and MAKE it happen, and all of the guns are in normal tolerance and good condition. I don't worry about them being pushed out-of-battery when carrying them, either.
On the plus side of things, if the slide wasn't locking back on an empty magazine, and it is now, that's good. It also sounds like they tried to make a customer happy by essentially rebuilding the gun with the latest revisions of almost all of the parts & assemblies (except for the serial numbered frame
).Lucky you.
Fastbolt, I do not worry this (non)issue anymore. just thought for a moment it was fixed
Oh, okay.
Don't be surprised if that Shield, over time and normal wear, eventually acts differently.
I UNDESTAND THAT. I had about 6000 rounds thru in about 1 year before the guns started "acting". not sure if this is "normal" wear for such compact pistol that after 6000 it required some repair... to be fair to S&W I shot only 124gr NATO, 124 gr +P or 147gr P. which probably added additional wear to the Shield.
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