HighValleyRanch
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Just sharing some mods that I did on my Smith Shield.
It one of the guns that I carry, so all mods done with that in mind. No trigger work, and none needed. It has a decent trigger.
I never liked the Talon grip tape with the funky cutouts, so found these made by Grip on company that is simple and looks more glock like. These are a rubber texture and very comfortable and fit perfectly. 10.50
Since I live in California, this has the funky red with white ugly LCI indicator. So I found that Apex made a "no profile" LCI indicator and it was a simple replacement by just punching out the retaining pin and replacing the LCI strut.
Very clean looking and there is a tiny place you can look down and see the brass or do the standard press check for a loaded chamber. About 20.00
Next I replaced the guts of the standard flush 7 round magazine with the Magguts internal to get a plus one capacity. This is pretty simple and took a little fussing to get all 8 in, but after a few days, it's now easy to load 8 and functions perfectly. So really happy to have nine rounds of Federal HST 124 grain hollowpoints in such a slim, small pistol! Around 25.00
Finally, I made a claw sight for one handed manipulations. I.C.E (Rob Pinus) makes one for the shield, but they were out of them. So I purchased some 1/2 aluminum bar stock online and decided to make my own version yesterday. I decided to copy their Glock version instead of the Smith overhanging version. I like the cleaner look of the dovetail sight. Completely made by hand with a hacksaw and files and just eyeballed the dimensions and carefully fitted to the dovetail. It is drift adjustable and shot down in the field this morning to get the perfect height. The sight notch is cut round on the bottom like the Amerglo i-sights and in the future will get a brighter front sight to match. Used Aluminum black to blacken and now they are great!
Haven't seen a Shield like this and I always like to share the unusual.
Never liked the look of the original Smith sights and the tapered front, so now my Smith looks more like my glocks!LOL
It one of the guns that I carry, so all mods done with that in mind. No trigger work, and none needed. It has a decent trigger.
I never liked the Talon grip tape with the funky cutouts, so found these made by Grip on company that is simple and looks more glock like. These are a rubber texture and very comfortable and fit perfectly. 10.50
Since I live in California, this has the funky red with white ugly LCI indicator. So I found that Apex made a "no profile" LCI indicator and it was a simple replacement by just punching out the retaining pin and replacing the LCI strut.
Very clean looking and there is a tiny place you can look down and see the brass or do the standard press check for a loaded chamber. About 20.00
Next I replaced the guts of the standard flush 7 round magazine with the Magguts internal to get a plus one capacity. This is pretty simple and took a little fussing to get all 8 in, but after a few days, it's now easy to load 8 and functions perfectly. So really happy to have nine rounds of Federal HST 124 grain hollowpoints in such a slim, small pistol! Around 25.00
Finally, I made a claw sight for one handed manipulations. I.C.E (Rob Pinus) makes one for the shield, but they were out of them. So I purchased some 1/2 aluminum bar stock online and decided to make my own version yesterday. I decided to copy their Glock version instead of the Smith overhanging version. I like the cleaner look of the dovetail sight. Completely made by hand with a hacksaw and files and just eyeballed the dimensions and carefully fitted to the dovetail. It is drift adjustable and shot down in the field this morning to get the perfect height. The sight notch is cut round on the bottom like the Amerglo i-sights and in the future will get a brighter front sight to match. Used Aluminum black to blacken and now they are great!
Haven't seen a Shield like this and I always like to share the unusual.
Never liked the look of the original Smith sights and the tapered front, so now my Smith looks more like my glocks!LOL
