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I love the M&P shield but it had a slick grip. I am not a fan of adhesive grips or hogue grips and I didn’t want to get the 2.0 because I didn’t feel like I’d be gaining anything but the grip. I have stippled most of my carry guns and liked how they turned out so for the shield I did what I call the Dragon Scale Pattern. I think it ended up matching the slide serrations beautifully and it gave the gun a very positive and aggressive grip. The gun is not goin anywhere now when it’s in my hand. What do y’all think?

Thank you. I like this pattern over the standard dot pattern. It has made a huge difference

How did you do that? The grip on my PC Shield isn't nearly as aggressive as the ones on my 2.0 M&P's. I tried one of those Hogue grips but didn't like how it felt.

I use a soldering iron. I will take a picture of it when I get home and post it.

Instead of poking it straight down making dots I touched it at about a 45 degree angle and do it in different directions to make it a random pattern instead of uniform. With the random placement you get more of an aggressive feel. It’s my understanding that they made the texture in the new shields a little less aggressive then the 45 version or full size because people were saying that it was too aggressive.

AndyC wrote: ↑Thu Oct 11, 2018 11:19 am I like that a lot - it's functional and attractive

Same here- I should have bought an old version and sent it to cmgee67 for the stippling!

Lol. Thanks! I was able to get this gun 50$ cheaper than the new version and I knew I was goin to have to stipple it. So all I have in it is time. This pattern took me about and hour and a half to do and get everything finished. I decided against index stippling for my pointer fingers because I did not think I’d like the way it looked.

Here’s my iron as promised and model # in case any of you would like to know.

Very impressive. Most at home stipple jobs that I’ve seen come out very sloppy to say the least. Clean lines, consistent pattern, and not overdone. A+

Thank you. It has taken me a while. I practiced on Magpul pmags before I ever did my first gun. Tha way if it looked junky oh well it’s just a 7$ pmag and I don’t care about their appearance

Nicely done! (I need a like button)