 Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today. We're looking at the new Smith & Wesson M&P 2.0 shield with the four-inch barrel only available from their performance center These were released mid to late April, so they are new for 2019. There are various models That are available. This is your bare bones model from the performance center And what this has is a four-inch barrel and high-viz Fiberoptic rear and front sights now you may see others with ported slides and barrels and then some are Optic ready the slides cut for optic ready. Others have night sights and the price is Significantly higher now the MSRP on this is 542. It's a shield So it's not too expensive, but check out the performance center case I'm gonna have to run it across like this. It is very wide in short That's what the local gunstore charge and it also comes with this cleaning kit From their performance center. All right. Now it also has two magazines and eight and a seven round I brought out the original Shield so we can do a comparison, but it does have the two magazines The eight round is in my opinion much more advantageous Not only do you get the additional round but a full three finger contact is where the seven round You know, it's a two-finger contact and with that four-inch build Especially it just makes sense to me to balance out the look the feel and Of course getting that additional round makes a difference So if we take a look at the original shield and we'll look at the slide length here We'll see that there's quite a bit of difference at least an inch probably an inch there with the performance center 2.0 and then here's what we're looking at now the grip length is the same don't let that fool you Because if we take that mag out, we'll see that that is identical the one thing that 2.0 models have is More aggressive grip texturing and and they really do feel nice now here is a 2.0 compact this has a 15 round mag All right, so you can compare it to you know the Glock 19 and the Glock 48 It's it's sort of the same idea here But we have four inch barrels and we'll take a look here and see that the shield is much thinner But the slide length is the same and that's the difference that you're looking at with The width on the slide. I mean the grip the width on the grip so it's very thin made for carry in my opinion and Here it is now. I do like those high-vis Fiberoptic sights, you know it offers a very nice sight picture, especially with the orange in the rear and the neon green in The front the one thing that I do not care for are these are these slide serrations because if they are The rather poorly cut. Why don't they just move some of the engraving back here? Or just remove it entirely put it somewhere else and put actual Slide serrations, you know, I kind of like the way those are cut. I always have you know works just fine, but uh Why can't they do that in the front? It would just make sense if you're gonna have forward serrations put forward serrations in there But the grip feels nice. The trigger is the same. Let me go ahead and demonstrate that all right It's the same hinged trigger the trigger weight No great difference from your standard M&P line of handguns All right, and that's what we're looking at Right there. So it's essentially a 2.0 shield with a longer barrel and Fiberoptic front sights. Let's go ahead and weigh the gun because I do want to compare it With the original shield, you know a lot of people like that additional weight and We'll go ahead. Let's just do the unloaded weight here without a magazine Well, let's put the eight round magazine one pound seven and a quarter ounces just ounces 23 and a quarter. All right, so we put the original shield in here and We'll see that it's 21 even, but let's put the seven round mag On and then the 2.0 performance center 25 and seven eighths and there's another round 26 and a quarter So that's what you're looking at in considering the weight and if you decide to carry the gun now here is a Smaller 124. So we're looking at a two ounce difference. But what you get is That four-inch barrel which should help you with accuracy if If you feel that you need accuracy, I don't know I should I shoot this this one pretty well Let's go ahead and disassemble the shield We have the mag removed and it is unloaded slide is locked back We'll take this lever push it down release the slide pull the trigger and off comes the slide from the frame. I like the texturing that Smith uses with the 2.0 line. I think that stippling feels really nice That was a nice improvement and here we have a captured recoil spring and guide rod and The four-inch barrel and there's your slide The dust cover does not have a rail. It may have a rail with some of the other models I think I mentioned this is The bottom of the line of the performance center shields with the four point or with the four inch barrel The other ones have Other things that shooters may find advantageous, but as far as I'm concerned This is all I needed and I look forward to taking this to the range and Taking you guys along with me. We'll see how the four inch performance center shield 2.0 does So far it looks pretty nice. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe