TOP 5 Best M&P Shield Upgrades ► Smith & Wesson Shield Performance Upgrades

what's going on guys Andy here for g4 outdoors and today I'm just going to talk about and this is all personal preferences and personal opinions but my top five upgrades for my M&P shield smith & wesson nine-millimeter well here's a little story about two friends that came together and we started up a YouTube just to talk about whatever run about catching big bass smashing them cats from review videos is just making you laugh as we got guns we got knives we got fish and we got and we got everything you like so hit that subscribe button we're in the outdoors doing things that we love we're talking kids ours girls green grass and guns alright guys now I've had this firearm for about six to eight months now at first I didn't think I was gonna like it as much as I do but now it's pretty much become my everyday carry weapon wool for the summer for the most part for the winter I'm probably gonna switch it up cuz I do like to carry a lot more ammunition on me I do have a Springfield XD mod two nine-millimeter that I can hold up to sixteen but with the stock Smith & Wesson with the extended you're looking at about eight rounds and with some of the upgrades you can get a little more out of that one of the other things I wasn't a giant fan of when looking to purchase a weapon I knew I was wanting the shield for sure I liked the design of the gun and I've heard nothing but good things about it but the differences between the regular shield and the shield Performance Center I felt had a little bit of options as far as already upgrades if you would want to call him at the ported barrel doesn't do too much for me the ported slide doesn't do too much for me besides aesthetics but the upgraded sights I liked a lot I know I have a lot of people take Randy for instance also a big part of g4 outdoors obviously he has the stock nine-millimeter I believe it's the 2.0 I could be wrong I don't remember for sure if he's a 2.0 or not but the stock white sights I'm not a giant fan of he is a giant fan of so like I said this is all personal preferences but enough of me talking and yappin let's show you what I got going on so here we go guys this is my Smith & Wesson shield 9-millimeter this is the M&P and this is the Performance Center so before we get into the video I'm gonna go ahead and clear the weapon because I know how everyone is with that weapon is clear now one of the really good things about the shield is there's so many options for it just like ARS just like Glock maybe not as much as Glock but there is a lot of options out there for it so we'll start off with number five and they're not in any particular order as far as importance but like I said before I am one of those people that wants to carry as many rounds on me as possible because when you are in a stressful situation you never really know how things are gonna play out so as many options as you can have available is the way to go but for a single stack it does come with an eight stock with the M&P shield that I upgraded to a plus two so it's now a ten and this is from hive technologies this little plus two I just went with blue it was just a color they have a bunch of different color options just kind of what I went with and yeah to me this is a pretty important upgrade when carrying a single stack weapon the reason I got this gun was mainly for summer it's easier to conceal it's a smaller platform but in that smaller platform if I just want to carry the seven you know it's a very tiny gun for me I have big hands you know big fat fingers so not only am I getting ten rounds in the magazine but I have more grip on the gun I can get my hand down to the bottom of the magazine when holding this pistol so to me this upgrade was actually very good another one for me when you're talking about the guys with the big sausage fingers the extended mag release was a pretty big deal as well the stock ones not bad it fits pretty flush it's still easy to hit but I do like to have something a little grippy or and bigger to get my hand on like I said not a make-or-break deal but for this gun for me personally the extended mag release was actually a pretty good option as well so moving on to a third option which like I said before for me was the sights the stock white sights I'm not a lot of people are I do like these fiber optics a lot when the light hits them I can see very well I don't have the greatest eyes if you saw it was wearing glasses or wear contacts all the time but I love the way these sights look when I look down them with the two red in the back green in the front so and that's not an upgrade I did that's just a difference between the stock shield and the Performance Center like I said it also has a ported barrel and poured it on the slides which I don't notice a huge difference between shooting this firearm and shooting Randy stock one I didn't notice a huge difference between him but at the same time it does look kind of cool so moving on I guess this would be number two out of five since I kind of skimmed through the other ones rather fast and speed Lee is gonna be the streamlight tlr-2 have this same light laser combo on my Springfield and I like it a lot again not all things are gonna happen in the middle of broad daylight you could be in a dark parking garage you could be anywhere in the world you never know what's gonna happen so when I'm carrying something I'm gonna carry it like I said with the options available having a flashlight to distinctly tell what's going on so I always have a flashlight with me if my weapon is drawn so you can you know kind of digress and understand the situation going on so I have my light and my laser option as well so if I don't have the ability to look down the sights at all time depending on what's going on I know within that 10 to 15 yard range my lasers dot on to where I need to be so the streamlight tlr-2 combo to me is a must-have upgrade for any weapon I'm carrying I have to have a light the laser not as much but I want a light on my weapon no matter what and also kind of going along with the TL r6 like I said there is a lot of options for the shield having a carry holster for the TL r6 this is inside the waistband obviously is a must-have as well so you do have to find that option not really something they're going to carry and a lot of the stores like you know Dick's Sporting Goods or at atomy or anything like that I got this on Amazon so and it works well I don't have a problem this has good retention good hold to the firearm and right now if we were going in in chronological order this still would be the number one upgrade to me the number one upgrade for the shield period whether you're talking the Performance Center or you're talking the regular they have a very crunchy gritty trigger me personally I cannot stand that trigger so I upgraded to the hive technologies monarch trigger I'm not a gunsmith guys I've only been really into guns and firearms for maybe the last year and a half two years I did everything on this weapon besides the you know Performance Center stuff that came with a gun all myself I don't know anything about this stuff I put a new back slide plate on it I put the extended mag release on it I installed this trigger I even filed it down to where I would be able to make my safety still operate so a lot of these things are stuff you can you can do yourself guys trust me if I can do it anybody can do it but this trigger hands down the best upgrade for this gun now I'm not saying this trigger period the hive technologies monarch any trigger upgrade you can do from Apex to whatever it is I say is a must for this weapon the break on this trigger I love guys I love the break on this trigger like you guys know the gun is cleared there is nothing in this firearm but I just want to show you how crunchy this trigger was before everything on it is god I love this trigger when it comes to shooting it that's my pickup right there that's it I'm at the wall I'm at the wall break return is so my new guys and this trigger probably has maybe a four pound pull on it it's an easy trigger but you're at the wall instantly now as far as an everyday carry weapon I mean the trigger might not be the biggest upgrade in the world but I love shooting this firearm when I take it to the range it's enjoyable it's a very fun gun to shoot and at the same time getting rid of that grittiness and that crunchiness in that stock trigger man when I first purchased this firearm and they're like okay it's the Performance Center it's got the upgraded trigger they did some stuff to it it is still as nasty and as crunchy as the stock one believe me so there you go guys that's kind of my top five things that I've done to this weapon I don't feel like I need to do anything else to it I got the extra two rounds which still I'm a double stack fan I like to carry you know sixteen on me if possible I want to carry as much ammo as possible but having the extra makes a huge difference and also having the extra as far as my hand goes makes a huge difference I'm going to put this back in the gun safety is on but as you can see in my hand how well that fits me my finger is right at the bottom of this without it when you're talking the stock baseplate my pinky's off the gun I'm just holding onto this with two fingers which is still able to operate but this just comes so more so much more comfortable to me and when it comes to a firearm that you're gonna carry be as comfortable with it as possible guys so there you go guys that's my top five like I said you got the extra two in the magazine the extended magazine is a good one for me the extended mag release was a good one the trigger is 100% a must to me a flashlight 100% a must upgraded sights which obviously just came from the Performance Center but to me I love these sights man if I was if I had this stock M&P shield I would want to upgrade the sights for sure and yeah having a carry holster that fits at all so there you go guys simple enough smith & wesson M&P shield I do like this gun like I said it's very fun to run it's very fun to shoot those are my top 5 upgrades for this gun if you guys own a Smith & Wesson shield please let me know some of the upgrades you guys might have done to your guns that I don't know about leave it down in the comments below if you can think of anything else that would be awesome as far as upgrades goes to this firearm and like always guys like comment hit the subscribe button we're trying to grow this channel as much as possible as long as you guys know we're always doing something goofy we're trying to bring some comedy we're trying to do some funny stuff outside we're doing gun related videos we're doing fishing videos we're doing anything kind of outdoors related and we're even doing some reviews on products every now and then so like I just said a second ago guys hit the like button leave a comment down below make sure you hit the 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Length: 11min 40sec (700 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 12 2018