setxn
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A model # instead of a cheesy name.
What do you think S&W should have included with the Shield?
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Dave Nowlin
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Actually I disagree with your idea that levers that go in toward the body don't add thickness. If those levers rub against you all day long day after day they become an irritant. If you choose to use a holster that comes between your body and those levers you add to the thickness of the gun. I'm not guessing or surmising. I do carry most of the time from when I get up until I go to bed. I have tried Mexican carry to minimize thickness and the safety of my 9C got to be a pain after a while. However if I use my Crossfire Kydex holster I am shielded from contact with those things but it also adds to the overall thickness I must conceal.
catcus-jack
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A full size M&P so you would have had a real pistol.
mlapaglia
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I was surprised at the box so I ordered a blue plastic box from S&W for $10.00. The Shield is everything I could want in a small firearm. I really cant think of anything I would have them do different on the base model. Even the safety is something I like on it.
third Mag would raise the price. Anything else they did would raise the price and I got mine for $405 OTD. I am more than happy with the whole package.
third Mag would raise the price. Anything else they did would raise the price and I got mine for $405 OTD. I am more than happy with the whole package.
SMMAssociates
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Me, I like the plastic box 
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I think an ambi safety and no safety will eventually become options. There are some heavy mold costs involved in making the plastic "grip" and they just may have run with one that'd sell in most places that have restrictions.
I'm giving serious thought to buying one to replace my P3AT. Not exactly the same thing, of course, but the P3 couldn't be much less reliable and still be trustworthy.
(Probably would ditch the 9C at that point....)
(Might do that anyway.)
Regards,
....I think an ambi safety and no safety will eventually become options. There are some heavy mold costs involved in making the plastic "grip" and they just may have run with one that'd sell in most places that have restrictions.
I'm giving serious thought to buying one to replace my P3AT. Not exactly the same thing, of course, but the P3 couldn't be much less reliable and still be trustworthy.
(Probably would ditch the 9C at that point....)
(Might do that anyway
.)Regards,
Edmo
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They can keep the safety and instead give me a tritium sight option (maybe those will not fall out).
If they insist I need to be safer, at least make the safety an ambi for us lefties.
Edmo
If they insist I need to be safer, at least make the safety an ambi for us lefties.
Edmo
I'm with you on the mag assist loader. I had a very hard time loading my mags yesterday.
Pivo
Member
I would like to see left-hand drive slide-lock lever.
Bedrockk
Member
+1 THIS!! A southpaw mag release option as well.
What is the most important item that you think S&W missed and should have been part of the Shield when released? You may have more than one suggestion, but I'm interested in the one that tops your list as the most important. This may be a design detail, a hardware addition like night sights, a third magazine or anything you think is relevant.
Bare in mind that S&W probably had a price point to meet and is based around concealed carry.
No Penalty For Multiple Suggestions..............
What's yours?
Chuck Jones
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.45 ACP
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Maddmax
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A coupon for up to three extra mags (besides the two that came with it),at factory cost plus shipping. ANY three mags. Like all 8's or all 7's. 2-8's and 1-7combo. 2-7's and 1-8 combo.
SSGT Pride
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This........
One other reason I think the sear should be of high quality and installed at the factory in a carry gun is the legal issue should it arise from altering your gun and you used it in defending your life. I think it would be of minimal to no increase in cost to the manufacturer to just design a trigger system that is smooth with minimal take-up and reset. I'm not saying it has to be some space age setup, just high quality in materials and functionality.
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Dave Nowlin
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So they changed the rules? High quality materials don't cost more! That's the best news I've heard all day!!!
Nakanokalronin
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To each their own. I've been carrying 1911s and other handguns with extended manual safety levers that go towards the body for the past 10 years from morning until night and they never added girth or caused irritation. I've carried other guns as well and prefer holsters with "sweat" shields more so for the slide than anything else and they've never made the entire set-up thicker.
Dave Nowlin
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I'll be 70 in October so I suspect I have been carrying far longer than you have. That said when a sweat shield is added to the equation and the manual safety protrudes .2 inch off the frame of the gun, how does that not add to the overall thickness of the carry package. Unless things have changed since I was in school counting on my abacus, two things can't occupy the same space.
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