S&W Shield .45 issue?

[Alexander831]

Shoot it and let us know how that goes.

[XDJYo]

My biggest beef with the Shield 45 is that it's not on the roster...

[divingin]

But when you try to manually cycle a round into the chamber it will not lockup with anything other then a Winchester fmj round. It's weird, have tried it several times and same outcome.

Not weird at all. Your feed ramp causes the non-round nose ammo to snag a bit, which slows down the slide as it comes forward. That causes to failure to chamber.

Shoot it for a while and things may iron themselves out; otherwise, you may need some ramp work done.

[Mossy Man]

My biggest beef with the Shield 45 is that it's not on the roster...

Mine is that it's .45

[Lonestargrizzly]

Should have known better than to buy a shield.

[GlockN'Roll]

My .45 shield functions flawlessly with all rounds.

Manually cycling a new pistol with live ammo instead of shooting it seems, well, meaningless and silly...

Shoot the damn thing already...

I always start with hot fmj and move to defense rounds after a few boxes have successfully been shot through a new acquisition.

Clean and repeat until you have confirmed it's dependability.

[Mossy Man]

Are you riding the slide back into battery, or are you slingshotting it?

If you're doing 1, stop that and do 2.

Edit: pointed in a safe direction and with your finger outside the trigger guard, of course.

[robledo]

Should have known better than to buy a shield.

Stop

[BajaJames83]

Shoot it...
I do believe S&W even states a break in period (200-500) but I could be wrong

[MrOrange]

And yeah, the rip was only cause I had it lol would never buy more of it.

OTOH, you wouldn't argue guns and ammo with the freakin' S.A.S, would you?

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/818597/SAS-ISIS-news-exploding-bullets-RIP-weapons-Islamic-State

Heads up, there's an auto-play vid at that link, mind your volume.

[motoman96]

So finally took this thing out today, ran fine, then I loaded up a few mags with some HP I had, it ate them too. Put about 100 regular fmj rounds thru it first. Thing has quite the recoil!! Took this, subcompact XD 40, P238 and my 9 shield, sure love the grip on this one.

[Doggboy]

My shield 40 was the same way. It took about 100 rounds to get it sorted but now it eats everything. When i first took it out, any limp wristing would cause a jam, and the last two rounds in the mag would jam every now and then. I do love it though, enough that i picked one up in 9mm when i heard about the rebate.