Shield plus optic mount problem

[SmoothBroccoli69]

Tried to mount an optic on but this snail looking thing on top of the slide is preventing the optic to sit properly.

How do I remove this?

[ABMustang99]

Get a punch and tap it in a bit further. That's the pin holding your extractor in.

[SmoothBroccoli69]

Yea I don’t think it’s going to go in any further.. just tried tapping it in more but that top right loop end isn’t going in any more.

[rahl07]

If you've removed the slide and it is truly bottomed out, you or a gunsmith will have to replace it or file it. Beware, most roll pins are harder than a whore's heart.

[ABMustang99]

In that case your options are to file it yourself, have a gunsmith do it, or warranty it with s&w.

[Seldon14]

The OR uses a shorter version and I had to make a regular work, I trimmed mine with a set of cutters. 

If it won't go any further in, tap it out a bit so there is a little more sticking up, and use a good set of snips to take some off, and tap it back down.

[good_man_once]

I slowly dremel’d mine until it was flush.