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Sniper Bob · 03-26-2008, 10:10 PM

Has any one tried the new XD with the thumb safty??? Would it get in the way of ur thumb??? It kinda looks like it would rub. Would it or not? does it clear?
Thanks

jtkratzer · 03-26-2008, 10:26 PM

I haven't put my paws on one yet, but I'd like to think it's similar to how the 1911 thumb safety works...use it as a rest for the thumb.

Kaboom · 03-27-2008, 12:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jtkratzer

I haven't put my paws on one yet, but I'd like to think it's similar to how the 1911 thumb safety works...use it as a rest for the thumb.

SA says they specifically copied it as close as they could to a 1911 so you could rest your thumb on it.

**mhillsing23** · 03-27-2008, 05:52 AM

Cloning the 1911 safety is nice. Don't get me wrong, I don't think that the XD needs another safety, but if SA is going to offer one I am glad that used a 1911 style clone.

Requiem · 03-27-2008, 08:33 AM

As well I haven't touched it yet, but I wanna....

On a side note I think the "option" of an additional external safety will increase the sales and enhance peoples interest in it. There are several people that I know who like my XD but didn't like not having that external safety. Now it will appeal to all crowds. Those that want an external safety and those who understand how the integral safeties work.

rogerxd45 · 03-27-2008, 08:35 AM

i personally dont like safeties but i think its cool they offer it.
does glock offer one?

**mhillsing23** · 03-27-2008, 11:40 AM

No, and there would be a huge pissing match if they did.

Ishpeck · 03-27-2008, 12:41 PM

The thumb safety is cute but utterly superfluous. If you're into that sort of thing, knock yourself out! If you're pragmatic like me, you wonder "what's the point."

**tracker366** · 03-27-2008, 02:00 PM

I had my hands on one after I got done shooting the range at my gunshop Monday and again today and I must say I really do like it,but again it only is made in 45acp.Next time I go there shooting I will check to see if they have one to rent and give it a try.

Hondarrgh · 03-27-2008, 02:08 PM

The guys at the Local Shop are selling it as the "Modern 1911" Makes sense i guess. Except for that whole USA trigger deal. And the Plastic. And the capacity. And its Croatian.

03-26-2008, 10:10 PM	#1
Sniper Bob XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Nor Cali Posts: 100	New thumb safty (good or not) Has any one tried the new XD with the thumb safty??? Would it get in the way of ur thumb??? It kinda looks like it would rub. Would it or not? does it clear? Thanks Last edited by Sniper Bob; 03-26-2008 at 10:22 PM.

03-26-2008, 10:26 PM	#2
jtkratzer XDTalk 15K Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Lancaster Co., PA Posts: 17,921	I haven't put my paws on one yet, but I'd like to think it's similar to how the 1911 thumb safety works...use it as a rest for the thumb. __________________ "The Marines will never disappoint the expectations of of their country - never!" - Capt. C. W. Morgan, US Navy "I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world." - Gen. Douglas MacArthur, US Army The Gun Lounge Pennyslvania Firearms Owners Association Hockey Forum

03-27-2008, 05:52 AM	#4
mhillsing23 XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: +38 26 31 -90 22 48 Posts: 3,178	Cloning the 1911 safety is nice. Don't get me wrong, I don't think that the XD needs another safety, but if SA is going to offer one I am glad that used a 1911 style clone. __________________ Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. - Ronald Wilson Reagan

03-27-2008, 11:40 AM	#7
mhillsing23 XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: +38 26 31 -90 22 48 Posts: 3,178	No, and there would be a huge pissing match if they did. __________________ Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. - Ronald Wilson Reagan

03-27-2008, 12:41 PM	#8
Ishpeck XDTalk 4K Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Earth Posts: 4,293	The thumb safety is cute but utterly superfluous. If you're into that sort of thing, knock yourself out! If you're pragmatic like me, you wonder "what's the point." __________________ If I were to ask you a hypothetical question, what would you want it to be about? http://www.ishpeck.net/

03-27-2008, 08:33 AM	#5
Requiem XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Inwood, WV Posts: 149	As well I haven't touched it yet, but I wanna.... On a side note I think the "option" of an additional external safety will increase the sales and enhance peoples interest in it. There are several people that I know who like my XD but didn't like not having that external safety. Now it will appeal to all crowds. Those that want an external safety and those who understand how the integral safeties work.

03-27-2008, 08:35 AM	#6
rogerxd45 XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: boise ID (its boy-see, not boy-z) Posts: 3,592	i personally dont like safeties but i think its cool they offer it. does glock offer one?

03-27-2008, 02:00 PM	#9
tracker366 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: kankakee county Illinois Posts: 346	I had my hands on one after I got done shooting the range at my gunshop Monday and again today and I must say I really do like it,but again it only is made in 45acp.Next time I go there shooting I will check to see if they have one to rent and give it a try. __________________ SPRINGFIELD ARMORY XD-9x19 Tactical Born 7/18/07 2750 Rounds as of 9/6/08

03-27-2008, 02:08 PM	#10
Hondarrgh XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 170	The guys at the Local Shop are selling it as the "Modern 1911" Makes sense i guess. Except for that whole USA trigger deal. And the Plastic. And the capacity. And its Croatian.

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