Shield Plus: A Paper-Pusher's Impressions

[brickeyee]

This is a Golden Age of Guns.

This.
And make sure the attorney you consult knows something about firearms and self defense law in your jurisdiction.
Not all of them do.

My ex was a union lawyer and did RE work.
She knew NOTHING about gun laws.

At least she was smart rough to know she was ignorant.
Successful attorneys (and many other profession) require knowledge of what they DO NOT know.

AS a PhD engineer.
I was well aware that outside my specialty (synchronization of signals) I needed to be very cautious.
I saw many people step on their crank when they wandered away from their training and experience.

My greatest skill was recognizing what I did NOT know, and then knowing how to learn what was needed for a particular problem.
Did you know that protons on a crystal oscillator can permanently degrade performance?
As in reset the long term aging curve of the crystal.
It was very important in TDOA (Time Difference of Arrival) systems.
We use two tightly synchronized oscillators to determine the slight difference in arrival of signals at two detectors.

Think two satellites a few hundred miles apart pincking up the same radar pulse.
You can determine the location of the source of the pulse.

 

[Spats McGee]

This.
And make sure the attorney you consult knows something about firearms and self defense law in your jurisdiction.
Not all of them do.

Fortunately, I'm real tight with a lawyer who does know about those things.

....My ex was a union lawyer and did RE work.
She knew NOTHING about gun laws.

At least she was smart rough to know she was ignorant.
Successful attorneys (and many other profession) require knowledge of what they DO NOT know.

Correct. I'd be out of my depth in your ex's line of work. Heck, I'm still trying to work out what RE work is. (Retirement & ERISA? Rolling Elephants?)

 

[Walkalong]

I'm not enough of a connoisseur to be genuinely bothered by even halfway-decent triggers.

Not me, guilty as charged.

 

[Spats McGee]

The hinged trigger never bothered me. Maybe it's in part because I spent about 4 years prior to buying my Shield learning a Glock trigger. I can appreciate a good trigger, I'm not enough of a connoisseur to be genuinely bothered by even halfway-decent triggers.

Not me, guilty as charged.

I might have to at least partially retract my statement. I shot my Shield Plus side by side with my Shield 45 (2.0 PC version) today. I can still say that I am not particularly bothered by the hinged trigger, but the Shield Plus trigger is light years better.

 

[JR24]

I might have to at least partially retract my statement. I shot my Shield Plus side by side with my Shield 45 (2.0 PC version) today. I can still say that I am not particularly bothered by the hinged trigger, but the Shield Plus trigger is light years better.

That's me and the hinged trigger. I don't particularly like it, and like other ones better. But I shoot it just fine.

 

[Spats McGee]

As for today's Shield Plus range report, I started by shooting the 40 Speer Gold Dots that I'd been carrying. I had zero malfunctions. Then I switched to some MaxxTech 115 grain FMJ that I got recently. Over the course of 150 rounds of that, the Shield Plus fed, fired and ejected every one. Unfortunately, the slide failed to lock back after the last shot in the mag about 75% of the time. I'll dig out some warmer ammo and see what happens. I suspect that it is just an ammo issue.

 

[Buzznrose]

I have a question on the Shield Plus Optic Ready version...anyone know if the gun has a specific optics footprint or if it comes with plates like the Glock MOS?

 

[Rexster]

I am thankful for this discussion. Thanks, to all who posted. I handled a Shield Plus, locally, and found it to be a decent fit, that pointed well. (Notably, I had previously handled a Shield EZ, and found it to point too low for me.) I stumbled across another pistol, however, which I found to be a superb fit, at least in my left hand, which is the only hand I now use to shoot compact pistols. (My gimpier right hand now only shoots more-orthopedic pistols, which means either larger-/longer-gripped, if firing duty-/service-level cartridges, or, if compact, those pistols firing milder cartridges.)

I may re-visit the Shield Plus, at a later time, if I decide it would still be a wise addition. The pair of pistols that I did buy are a bit bulkier, in the slide area, so a Shield Plus may yet fill a niche, for me.

 

[WheelGunMan]

I am thankful for this discussion. Thanks, to all who posted. I handled a Shield Plus, locally, and found it to be a decent fit, that pointed well. (Notably, I had previously handled a Shield EZ, and found it to point too low for me.) I stumbled across another pistol, however, which I found to be a superb fit, at least in my left hand, which is the only hand I now use to shoot compact pistols. (My gimpier right hand now only shoots more-orthopedic pistols, which means either larger-/longer-gripped, if firing duty-/service-level cartridges, or, if compact, those pistols firing milder cartridges.)

I may re-visit the Shield Plus, at a later time, if I decide it would still be a wise addition. The pair of pistols that I did buy are a bit bulkier, in the slide area, so a Shield Plus may yet fill a niche, for me.

It did for me...I even went as far as to add a Hogue Handall to it to get it just right. Very much liking this gun.