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Ammo Canistan and Here I am
got something for you Smith & Wesson
it's the shield chambered in 40 been out for a little while
I voted for a while but the
we're gonna break this thing out is a relatively new gun
and let me show you what you get and I'll talk a little bit about my
experiences
and to give me some insight then you can take it for what you think it's worth
how's that
up so let's get this thing opened I'll
one thing about her is that you know it's a little bit cheaper than some
other competitors but
on yes when it comes in cardboard box
bright red Audi AG's you don't get a plastic case with this one folks so
you know if you want to go out by one was a deal breaker for me
on at any rate when you get back a job when you get older
the basic stuff here Smith & Wesson a
safety guys up
see spent shell casing test
test-fire safety device lock it up
yet six rounder six round magazine
there it is single stack state
there this is for the .40-caliber like I said
comp and last but not least years this thought cell
yet rated this: you can see what I'm working with here
so
comes with an additional magazine here
arm was dropping out get this thing the
safe checked in be good to go swimming star personal tabletop
you here on so it comes with
7 rounder this magazine
amish can see it's gotta love book plate on the bottom there
extends it out a little bit on a minute at an additional round for it
that the red safety flag here so
yes we're nothin's in the chain
say source close up and I do you think you're gonna like this guy and I really
do
feels pretty good in the hand a.m. the first thing you notice about when you
get a lot of the box
is that it's gotta in grip on it
know it really does a know it's less than 1
one inch wide almond and that's what you're looking for right
this is a concealed-carry peace may not be a pocket gun
but you know this is something that
you know you're gonna have typed your body close to your body
and this is a a good weapon for that so
these gonna run you probably around 450 bucks
is the the msrp: you know you're going to get him out there cheaper than that
I'm sayin around for 20 bucks maybe 410 box
depending on demand as shipment in for a while
you make a little bit more but maybe round 420 book seems like a fair price
today
that's that's about what I think I paid are lifetime
a warranty from Smith & Wesson folks smith wesson a pretty good even put out
a good product for a long time so
I don't suspect you can have any trouble with smith wesson
a 19 hours is what this thing this post away and
up to the gate I'll grab scale here real quick
just just checked this you'll see where
we realize that so
according to my skill or is just better than 18 ounces so
on you know without a magazine in it that's pretty accurate
there on Celeste than an inch wide
on just so nineteen out is unloaded
the no magazine in it I am let me just talk about somebody external features on
this
on this weapon it's got some nice things
but so the most notable ones
are a external safety up
I'm gonna head down relegate because I know some guys you'd have a problem with
it
I'll you know I'm not want I'll that really doesn't make any difference to me
it's a nice safety on you know you're gonna know whether it's an honor of here
not going to be able to manipulate it by accident you know you're gonna have to
move into the fire position every word out
on its not ambidextrous 0
you know if your left the maybe maybe that's a catch for you maybe
this is the right guy on a bus I think you've probably figured out just fine
probably lotta guys are guaranteed out there and our position
be a locked and loaded ready to go and that's fine too
a are you want to do it a
it's got the scalloped
sure rations on here and I'm a big fan
I really am I think that looks sharp
I'll I think they feel good
on their functional I mean of course if not functional what's
what's the use a even having them
but today they work nice and they look good so
who does smith wesson for that they've got that on you know number
pistols now it's not just shield I think the regular
P the 1911 set their plan out there
some have the serrations on the front and the side
whatever you know hah down from up here
I don't is bit maybe you do I'll
so make no difference to me a
it's got a moderate text year on the grip that I'm going to describe it
some guys may take issue with that it's this does not have an aggressive
text you shoot a group like he may get on some other pistols like sick a lot
like agenda for
that's got aggressive grip to it on this one just doesn't doesn't have
its moderate it feels good in the hand up but more importantly
you know let's get back to the fact that you know this is probably a
concealed-carry piece for you
this is gonna be riding tight against your body do you really wanna have
the the you know the Gen four friction
up against your skin you got an undershirt on or something
it's not a problem but something bear in mind
a you know
maybe you can put in town grips on this thing if that's what you choose to do
I like it just fine the way it is I really do
a so I think the group is is nice it feels good in the hand
and miss its gonna feel good up against your body
so that's that's good to me up
the trigger on this service pistol it's got a nice trigger
in in a couple ways a and there were some problems at the striker's I may get
into that emit
try to show you live close to what the problem was
but this is got a nice smooth trigger on it and and what I mean is that
the face of the trigger you know when you get up at your finger on this
it feels good it's not like a Glock trigger we've got serrations built into
the body the trigger
I don't like the Glock trigger I really don't in terms of its physical
attributes not the way that it breaks your hear that the mechanism but
the physical feel a bit on the pad on my finger I don't like the blocker
actor to smaller say a and this
this is a nice trigger I'm in that regard
there was a problem with this trigger other the problem being that
there's a little up in here that holds the two pieces together that
a around the safety mechanism
and that ken was failing and causing this all safety tab to get hung up
inside the body this two-piece trigger
and I was causing the issue where the weapon could be fired if it was dropped
%uh so if you've got one of these that was bot
they're manufactured before I think August 19th
love 13 go online go on YouTube whatever
there's some videos on a guys are shown some close ups
that little flag how to get hung up inside Smith & Wesson themselves
produced a video on it
just check it out you know it's an easy fix
a so you know you don't wanna
have that mechanism that work correct
so trigger pull on easier anywhere between six and a half inch and a half
pounds depending on where you
where you got the weapon compliant state a
you know they require ten and a half pound poll which
you know is kind of a master's pool
you know you don't want and it happened all maybe you do I don't wanna
ten-and-a-half
ample on my pistol 6 six-and-a-half is
is plenty a you know block I think concert by
on pool so it it even a little bit beefier than that
but the it there is that option they're complying models have a couple different
features one of them being I think the California gunness got you know this big
tablet flips on %uh videos flashing red lights to tell you that it's loaded
a you know whatever a.m. knows this
gunnison outfitted with that but to so the Mar
so you know California you know they can do whatever they want out there
West Coast so
a terms to the finish here a look this is got a slick finish on it
you gonna take this thing out of the box and its kinda got a wow factor when you
take it out
are it is and nice finish a it is smooth
and it's not I say that it shiny because it's not shiny
but when I first took the sting out of the box I almost thought it was painted
its it's not paint obviously that would hold up
%uh what it is is it melon night is in a minute finish on it
comments made by a company called Burlington engineering
om some people tell me it's similar to the China for product that's on a Glock
I am and and I will say that it is not
a you know the 10 for product is a nice product
in this is a nice product but they're not the same they don't feel the same
I'm sure they're both they're chemical processes
but they're they're not the same a and
you're gonna like this thing when you take it out of the box its
it's got a good feeling you can't wipe this thing clean you know it anybody on
the clock out there you know with the tender for
you know if you get any Oilers anything on it you know you
you got fingerprints on a thing for you know two years
om this stain you can't wipe clean with a rag and
it's just like glass its slick to finish on these you know when you take them out
of the box
you say hate you know they did a good job on this
so kudos to them I'm in terms that durability
you know this hasn't been to carry a gun for me I have carried out in the world
but
you know I really just bought this thing to take to the range in sling some lead
for your benefit
a so is not something I would take around so I can't really speak to the
durability other than the fact that
on you know Smith & Wesson is advertising it as
a 68 on the rockwells scale so
a do research on that like I did you find out that
you know anything greater than like 65
are sixty-five to maybe like sixty
would be like high-speed carving tools so
you know this is a hard finish a you know its quality is probably expensive
to put on here
and you gonna like it so I guess that's all say
about the finish on this thing but some guys will say it's like a Glock and I'll
say it is not the same as block
so let's break this thing down. arm so I can tell you a little bit more about the
guts if it
'em as much as I like this gone and I think there's a lot of nice features
about it I've got
a couple of complaints and the the first complaint is
about breaking this thing down. so so let's get
these are all solvable issues like complaints so
maybe somebody from out there smith wesson a is watching and
in take these things to the border min and get that corrected.
but the first issue is the fact that you can't break this personal down without
having
tool and guess what tool is not supplied
a with some of the other and peas
my understanding is that in the butt of the gun
there's a a hollow point here and to liz is fitted up insider
now on this weapon you can't do that because
with the extended a magazine here
when he sighed at home here there's no room for
for that too fit which isn't gonna work
so you know where that mind
so insider the the slide here in housing
there's this little nell flag that you've got a
pull down and this little Smith s this little Swiss Army knife is about the
best to let founder do a tax write paper clips in
screwdrivers and just about everything in a
is have a nightmare to to a
but that's how I've been doing it so in her maybe he is shocked when these but
this isn't going to help in the field if you got a problem
me to break that thing visit so
you know just bear that in mind I'm not sure why this is here other than
it it obviously makes you work inside of the
side here in the to make sure that I guess there's nothing inside here so you
not working with a loaded gun but
you know frankly I can see it it's very difficult to see so if you don't have
great I say maybe you get a little bit older
you have a hard time seeing this thing break in this thing down. you really are
and I season guys pointing the gun at themselves trying to get in here to to
do that
you know that's not the right thing to do here you know you know when you're
working with an empty gun it you know is empty
you know it you don't like the pointed at Shell you know that's that's not
safe thing to do so at any rate
so you can pull this off flag down I'll you know
liqueur lever here takedown lever and guess what
coming are just like what o'clock so
its price this thing down into its basic pieces
you've got to spring arms to peace arrangement you're familiar with these
shore set that aside
you know striker fired weapons so you know the body this thing looks like
there's no magic to that right everybody's making these things now
striker fire
very popular but the barrel
a some I wanna spend a little bit I'm on are
you know it's it's been milled out obviously it's got a loaded
a chamber indicator not the big California compliant one but its
it's just tapped out milled out so that you can look down into the
chamber and if you see her *** you know you get something jammed up in there
or is it a live round in the chamber up so
you know that's a good thing I don't have any complaints about that a
it's all been a bother to get in there and clean out
on any and the getting there powder
what what not so tasteful extra time to clean it but
overall safety feature and it's not terrible safety feature
so it is what it is you get used to it in a life
there's some guys out there they're converting these forty calibers
and you can't do it backwards hasta yet to buy a .40-caliber gun and then
they're buying a nine-millimeter barrel
dropping in the ring on a range to shoot with nine Bill Maher
you can pick these things up online I believe the factory barrels
on its not on my knee guys are out there doing in their YouTube videos out there
you can see him
a all-time guys talked about various things
and I'm just gonna weigh in on that and say on
I'm not doing it and I'm not mine and mill me barrel for this gun
and I'll tell you why the external dimensions of this
barrel whether it's a nine millimeter or
.40-caliber are identical but for one measurement
and there's a great video out there and you too can I get a link for
I'm gonna give this guy credit for this user machinist and he went through and
he measured this thing every which way
and as it works out he took the caliper and
tight barrels identical in every way except for one measurement
and that was right here on the top at the bar or the indicator is
I'll try to get you so you can see it there this'll measurement right here at
the top
right there the with that is thinner
on the nine-millimeter Barrow and is on
forty caliber barrel so what does that mean
I'll everything going to
function properly terms elevation
weeks but the same here show it Sherif elevation you're going to be fine
up but in terms of windage
you can see this this fits in here and and there's very little play to it
on you very very minimal and
with a nine-millimeter you going to get should some more play and
maybe a five yards or so that's that's not a big deal
but you know for you get out from that target
you know the deviation is going to be bigger and bigger
so bear that in mind you know to me
if you not gonna shoot accurately
to at least what kissable pistols capable of probably
pistols a more capable Dr's this point I'll
you know why bother so to say five bucks in a box
amo to put yourself in a situation where voiding the warranty look
there's going to be a nine-millimeter conversion barrel release things at some
point I'm
their common it's gonna be soon you know for me at this point I say
I'm gonna spend a little bit extra money and I'm issued
.40-caliber other if using this for concealed carry peace
why do you want to go out there nine-millimeter out it's a different
beast with nine-millimeter amo
and 40 Cal Grant No yeah I mean it
it's a different beast so why do you want to train with something
does not going to react the way that you that it would
will carry it with loaded with forty caliber and probably some
you know buffalo bull or bowling or whatever else seeing your load into
these things you know
you carry bullets so you know he get what they're loaded up with
nine-millimeter target for playing in
and then when you carry this thing you know you carry in the big Buffalo
more loads it doesn't make sense to me
so a
that's that's my two cents that sounds done and I'm sure that
some folks don't feel that way but you know it is what it is
so let's let's get this thing put back together on
I'm gonna tell you about one final issue
that I have with this this fiscal
and much with this thing back together by the way you gotta go back in here you
gotta
flip this Tasha because otherwise you
trigger what tree gauge now personally going
stop magazine and its gonna release that
in a release that flag said used a you'd be able to
about this I miss lee but at any rate
up sights on this on this gun lot right out of the box
they were there good sites you know they're they were wrong okay
but a you know I put not know how many
hunters around through this thing not a ton but it but enough
so I was at issue Monday at dusk and he know a pop
and also netted voy a dar really really fast they can barely see my
my prince site post and
once a ft magnin looked at it I realize will
you know I am NOT losing daylight I lost the paint out of the
front sight post so I called Smith & Wesson on that and they spoke to the
customer service and i got right through
and what that the guy told me was that you know during the height of the boom
when the guns they just couldn't keep money shelves and they still can't some
degree
they were just manufacture anything so fast that they weren't doing a good job
cleaning the machine while of the sites
and I'm sure he's a private manufactured by some third party and I don't know
but I'm sure they probably are so
they were getting the machine oil of the site so guess what
the paint didn't hear the way it was supposed to and
I'm not the only one that had this problem I've never had a problem
with lose in the the paid out our site and any other weapon on this is the
first time it's ever happened to me
maybe it's more prevalent on but there was a surprise for me
but he told me that they were getting complaints about it and they did offer
to send me a new front sight post but really what it boils down to show you
just gotta get some rubbing alcohol
clean a good let it dry get a little bit a latex paint drop it in there
do the job in you're off to the races
on my other complain about the sites is back sites are gonna play about the
front side and a complaint about the backside
on in the complaint about the back side is is
a bigger issue a.m. the back side on this gun
I mean it a sharp like a razor blade
you cut fishing line on this thing you know headlined
so you know this is not a good thing when this issue
your concealed carry gun you got this thing up tight
to use yet see gonna take a pound of flesh out its
you know I imagine if you get jammed up in you you go to
preacher this thing ever want to get snagged on something whether it's
clothing or
you know it's sharp its gonna get caught up in something or you gonna take it
Hill nice chunk of flesh out when you go to polish thing out
it it just it's gonna get hung up just that's the way it is
are you gonna get cut by it so anybody for Smith & Wesson is watching you know
I hope that you take that hard
you know get that resolved on but
the in the meantime you know guys you might want to embarrass you may wanna
just
a take a file and just just not that back a little bit
arm just just dial it back a hair
so that you don't cut yourself on it not not a good actor be to have a concealed
carry weapon
have it's like a a razor blade you know it's like a bayonet
but back in the gun so just just not get back hair
and and match itself here your problems there
so overall look
there's there's a lot of options out there right now I mean if you're into
guns you're going to shoot you know
you go out here local shop and
me and they've got a case for everything its stuff is awesome
this more choices out there now than ever in there
good in their accurate in there easy to break down
clean and I mean boy what time to be a gun owner
who know where where this is like the Golden Age
there's a lot of good stuff out there in as a lot a lot has changed to that are
making it difficult
hike at magazines in this such a but
you know this weapon is one that this was going to be around for a while I
think
and I don't want to dissuade you from buying this weapon
based on you know the couple problems that had it with the sites
my problem with the flag maybe you have a problem with that
safety on it maybe you maybe you're not a fan of the
the moderate texture the grip up
but this thing is a shooter
feels good in the hand it's got it good angle
here on you know when you take it out it's gonna it's gonna feel familiar to
you I guess that's the best way that I could say
is that you know that that enables gonna fail Villiers specially obviously
the on another M&P because I think they probably of all the same
the same body lines on
a and in fact the I got my hands on another
a Smith and Wesson the compact model
and spend some time with capital talk about that a minute
up so I don't dissuade you from buying this gun with those couple criticisms
because no matter what going on
at put frana me up there's going to be something about it that you know I'm
gonna say all they could improve this article done this differently
up but you know in terms of the bench top review
you know is there's a lot of good things to say about this gun
and most about you know you gotta get out on the range slacks
lead with it and unfortunately with where the way is for me
anyway see I have been able to go out there and do that I've got some benchtop
stuff that I'm going to be doing instead
on a decent comparisons for you know I wanted to get out here at this forty
she'll
because a lot of guys did reviews on these when they first came out
and and believe me you know I'm right on top of that I'm the first guy to be
watching the videos but some
come drop shot show you really want to see it but
and so you get out there in the real world there at the range in you start
poppin
bullets through these things in you the star
you know wearing it carrying in seeing what's out there for accessories
didn't hear a don't know what you're getting into you don't know how this
finish is gonna wear
you know as much as I gloat about this fish you know they're in this overview
are I don't know maybe some guys are out there carrying this thing in the
finishes
is wearing right off and maybe the clock finish is a better fit
but to me you know it's it's a really nice finish
so but have on this gun for a little while I have put some live through it
and those have been my experience is so I hope you'll see some value in the
in this review is opposed to the value you know the unboxing
this where you know overlooking it features
all the next to the brochure or you look at the measurement
talking about the measurements on you know I've on this thing I went out I
shot it
gonna shoot some more and that's the best way to
to see it in action you know let's let's start
care the steel ring a minute and then we'll know you know whether this things
worked on it or not
but I can tell you from experience with it that shot it
i like it you're gonna like it on there's a lot to like about this guy
keeps saying that over and over
but you know whether you you're looking at the Springfield you're looking at the
clock which
I don't think is really a parable because it's not a single stack
a gone but you know
when you look in a spring fail they are looking at
what else is out there you know lc9 to cars or
ish so many on there any single stack narrow
conceal carry guns a
you know this is gonna stand up to them you know hey no nearby you gonna be able
to give you a hard time about
you know poll on this thing out at the range because this isn't nice
gone and the price is right
you know that's a very fair price for this gun on your pain four hundred
twenty dollars for these things plus tax
you know you get your money's worth and you get a gun whether
a good warranty from from one of the big manufacturers
so you know there's there's something to be said for that not summer the small
guys are putting that stuff out there
but you know luck Smith & Wesson's one other big players
so this is this is something that you could be glad that you'll
so I guess that's it on the shield
on I'm gonna do some comparisons for you like I said I've got the other Smith &
Wesson
a compact I wanna show you I wanna put that next two o'clock
army and show you how that thing stands up there
on with the weather the way that it is you know this is the best for going to
be able to do for now
somebody get that out produce a tabletop stuff I wanna show you some things that
I think are cool
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