The extended base plates on my Shield Plus made it much better and improved my grip on the pistol. Relatively easy to install, but I had to file down the little end cap tab that goes over the magazine spring so the new base plate would lock in place. Not a big deal, but I couldn’t get it to lock in place without doing that. The spring cap was slightly too long for the Pearce base plate so wouldn’t lock in. Filling it was an easy fix.