Whats new about the 2008 XD's?

[kardiotae002]

Its a personal preference with the thumb sagety. I personally bought an XD bc there was 2 other safeties and NO thumb safety. Thats also why I carry it as a CCW, bc if the S*&T ever hits the fan, god forbid, and I have to use the weapon I dont want to have to fool around with the safety. Too many officers, soldiers and civilians have been hurt or worse bc of that exact situation. Unless you drill constantly on drawing and disengaging the safety, then you run the risk of not getting the it off in time to effectively deploy the weapon when needed. Thats my VERY HUMBLE opinion.

[Cannibul]

Originally Posted by barl0w

Can you ask to see the original case and take a look at the date that the test fire happened?

I was surprised, but I had a shell casing inside of my box with a date of March for my new XD-45 w/ thumb safety.

Maybe that could be the way that you could tell for sure.

To anyone who uses the shell envelope to date their XD. Be aware that the date is in the day/month/year format and not the month/day/year format more commonly used in the US.

[Charlesdht]

Originally Posted by chrisxd45t

They will be available with or without the manual safety, go with whichever you feel most comfortable with using.

Are you 100 percent its an option

[boardsurfer]

Originally Posted by Tercel89

To the original poster , I would NOT get the thumb-safety . An external safety will get you killed . You need something to go bang when you need it , you may forget to disengage the manual safety . I carry a Glock 22 on duty as a police officer and I am glad we have no manual safety's. This is just my $.02 . Try the XD without a manual safety , I have the XD-9 Service for my concealed carry weapon and love it . Awesome pistol.

I see what you did there.

[Boanerge]

Originally Posted by kardiotae002

Its a personal preference with the thumb sagety. I personally bought an XD bc there was 2 other safeties and NO thumb safety. Thats also why I carry it as a CCW, bc if the S*&T ever hits the fan, god forbid, and I have to use the weapon I dont want to have to fool around with the safety. Too many officers, soldiers and civilians have been hurt or worse bc of that exact situation. Unless you drill constantly on drawing and disengaging the safety, then you run the risk of not getting the it off in time to effectively deploy the weapon when needed. Thats my VERY HUMBLE opinion.

Amen!!!!

[tenring]

Yeah, i called a shop today and he said they have to order the 40sc from spring field cause they never have one in stock.

Thats pretty common. The 40 is much harder to find than the 9 in the sub usually. I bought mine from a chain, and they actually had their gunsmith bring one over from a location on the other side of town for me.

Of course that was a while ago, since I bought mine with the smart people, not all the current bandwagon jumpers! No offense meant to the more recent converts, but some of us saw this one coming a long time ago.

I have the 45 compact too, both are great CC guns.