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rogerxd45 · 03-18-2008, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Cupsz71

DOUGH! That make sense. And just after I got typer's cramp trying to visualize loading techniques............and posting them.

And thanks rogerxd45......after my long winded explanation.....I figured out what you were talking about........too much caffene today.

I gotta go to bed...........

Thanks.

no worries i do it all the time.

boomhower · 03-19-2008, 10:47 AM

Hey, new guy here, any ways i was browsing through the threads and noticed this one, my XD9 has the same brass colored tiny flakes after evry time i shoot. I guess this is normal?

rgeliske · 03-19-2008, 11:03 AM

Again it is probably just unburned powder. This can be very common with some powders and short barreled guns.

tantive4 · 03-19-2008, 11:09 AM

I get the same thing when I'm shooting the cheap Wal-mart Winchester ammo. I thought the same thing until I realized that it was just unburned powder.

-jason

elorei · 03-21-2008, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by foo.c

This is the first time I've shot WWB in that gun. (Any gun for that matter.) It was the cheapest stuff they had at Wal Mart.

Maybe that's it.

I always get this after firing WWB. It is not that hard to remove, as long as you do not over oil your gun before using the ammo. Too much oil and it gunks this stuff into little white/yellow balls. Also, yellow residue on fingers is often from firing a gun that had too much breakfree CLP left in the gun in combination with WWB.

gdkeys · 03-21-2008, 09:45 AM

I get the yellow/green fingers too after a firing range session - 200- 300 rounds using a mix of PMC and WWB. Haven't noticed any sandy looking stuff or brass flakes though. Ejector stuck out could be from the flakes, sounds like it's ok after a cleaning. Let us know if you have a reoccurrance of this behavior!

EvoIXGSR · 03-21-2008, 10:45 AM

Ive put 450 rounds through my XD45 and I havent even had it a week yet, with 200 more going in her tomorrow. No flakes for me at all. Also, like a previous poster said, it could be from dropping a round in the chamber manually then letting the slide go, which snaps the extractor over the butt of the cartidge.

p.s. I would completely disasemble it before you fire it again though to clean it and to make sure there is no other damage

foo.c · 03-21-2008, 10:45 AM

I plead guilty to over oiling it. I bought it for my wife but the slide was so tight she couldn't even pull it back. I got pretty liberal with the oil on it.

rgeliske · 03-21-2008, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by foo.c

I plead guilty to over oiling it. I bought it for my wife but the slide was so tight she couldn't even pull it back. I got pretty liberal with the oil on it.

Get a lighter recoil spring.

Son of Liberty · 03-21-2008, 11:57 AM

The same thing happened to me, except my fingers didn't turn yellow or green after I was finished shooting. I got the little flakes and chunks of yellow stuff though.

I believe I used WWB 147gr JHP towards the end of that range trip to try it out as self-defense ammunition and I liked the way it grouped.

03-19-2008, 11:03 AM	#13
rgeliske XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Central Florida Posts: 1,678	Again it is probably just unburned powder. This can be very common with some powders and short barreled guns. __________________ Sig P220, Taurus PT1911, Browning HiPower 9mm, CZ75, CZ75 P01, S&W Model 60 357, Savage 9317 BTVS .17, Browning Buckmark, Taurus Gaucho 357 (pair), Taurus Gaucho 45LC (pair), Uberti 1873 Saddle Rifle 357, Uberti 1873 45 LC Carbine, TTN 12 Gauge Double, Ruger Bisley Vaquero 357 (pair), Springfield XD9SC, XD45 Service, XD45 Compact Tactical, Glock G35, Taurus 617 357

03-19-2008, 11:09 AM	#14
tantive4 XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Space Coast, Florida Posts: 5	It's unburned powder I get the same thing when I'm shooting the cheap Wal-mart Winchester ammo. I thought the same thing until I realized that it was just unburned powder. -jason __________________ SA XD9 Service Model S&W Model 19 Walther PPK/S Mauser Model 98K "Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after."---Hesiod, The Works and Days

03-21-2008, 10:45 AM	#17
EvoIXGSR XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Baltimore, MD Posts: 128	Ive put 450 rounds through my XD45 and I havent even had it a week yet, with 200 more going in her tomorrow. No flakes for me at all. Also, like a previous poster said, it could be from dropping a round in the chamber manually then letting the slide go, which snaps the extractor over the butt of the cartidge. p.s. I would completely disasemble it before you fire it again though to clean it and to make sure there is no other damage __________________ XD-45ACP Tactical Bi-Tone Mossberg 500 (8-round, top folding pistol grip) SKS (yugo)

03-21-2008, 10:45 AM	#18
foo.c XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 171	I plead guilty to over oiling it. I bought it for my wife but the slide was so tight she couldn't even pull it back. I got pretty liberal with the oil on it. __________________ Springfield EMP

03-21-2008, 11:57 AM	#20
Son of Liberty XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Central Florida Posts: 330	The same thing happened to me, except my fingers didn't turn yellow or green after I was finished shooting. I got the little flakes and chunks of yellow stuff though. I believe I used WWB 147gr JHP towards the end of that range trip to try it out as self-defense ammunition and I liked the way it grouped. __________________ Springfield XD9 Service - 750 rounds Streamlight TLR-1 "This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." Benjamin Franklin Students for Concealed Carry on Campus Last edited by Son of Liberty : 03-21-2008 at 12:01 PM.

03-19-2008, 10:47 AM	#12
boomhower XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Phoenix Posts: 5	Hey, new guy here, any ways i was browsing through the threads and noticed this one, my XD9 has the same brass colored tiny flakes after evry time i shoot. I guess this is normal?

03-21-2008, 09:45 AM	#16
gdkeys XDTalk Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 30	I get the yellow/green fingers too after a firing range session - 200- 300 rounds using a mix of PMC and WWB. Haven't noticed any sandy looking stuff or brass flakes though. Ejector stuck out could be from the flakes, sounds like it's ok after a cleaning. Let us know if you have a reoccurrance of this behavior!

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