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mongoose33 · 05-12-2008, 12:31 PM

Newbie. New XD 4" Service 9mm. Trying to learn to shoot better.

I've been reading about trigger grittiness (there's a recent thread about it), but I can't find where it's described. I'm wondering if I have that issue.

I was practicing dry-firing today and trying to get the trigger to surprise me when it breaks. As I draw back the trigger, it's not smooth--it moves, then almost catches on something, moves a bit more, then finally breaks.

Is that the grittiness people are speaking of?

Can I expect that to get better as I fire more rounds (or do more dry-firing), or is my only recourse to get a smith to replace the offending parts?

I guess it's a sign of improvement that now I'm starting to be concerned with how the trigger breaks. At the start, it was all I could do, it seemed, to get the sights to line up.

TIA.

propellerhead · 05-12-2008, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by mongoose33

Is that the grittiness people are speaking of?

Yes. Like dragging your fingernail on sandpaper vs. wet glass.

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Originally Posted by mongoose33

Can I expect that to get better as I fire more rounds (or do more dry-firing), or is my only recourse to get a smith to replace the offending parts?

Yes. Over time the metal against metal will polish itself. But you can help it get there sooner with a multitude of polishing techniques.

Baldy · 05-12-2008, 01:57 PM

Have you tried cleaning it yet? I had some grittiness, turned out to be dirt.

Joeywhat · 05-12-2008, 02:08 PM

Clean everything very well and oil it up good as well. My Walther P22 had a gritty trigger and slide release. I lubed up the trigger mechanism, and took apart the slide release and oiled that up as well. Now it's very smooth.

Running a good 1500 rounds through it didn't hurt, either...

SEH95B · 05-12-2008, 02:24 PM

Both my XDs smoothed up pretty quick curtesy of shoot clean repeat.

Raptor1956 · 05-12-2008, 02:48 PM

Do you have to dissasemble anything besides removing the slide to do this work?

Brian

mongoose33 · 05-12-2008, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Baldy

Have you tried cleaning it yet? I had some grittiness, turned out to be dirt.

I have cleaned it, each time after I shot it, but I'm not sure I did as much as I could w/r/t the trigger mechanism.

I'm a little nervous about taking much more apart than the basic field strip, but I think I'll do some more cleaning around the trigger mechanism.

Nosrac · 05-12-2008, 04:15 PM

You may want to look down the hole at the sear and striker as you slowly pull the trigger. I could see when I pulled the trigger really slow the striker tab would studder up the sear until it fired. I cleaned up the sear, safety, ejector with wet 400 and 600 and did a little bit polishing on the striker tab and now it runs extremely smooth. I did just a little bit at a time and tried it until I had all the offending parts working nicely.

Good tips on the other thread to do all of this.

05-12-2008, 12:31 PM	#1
mongoose33 XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 877	Trigger Grittiness? Q: Newbie. New XD 4" Service 9mm. Trying to learn to shoot better. I've been reading about trigger grittiness (there's a recent thread about it), but I can't find where it's described. I'm wondering if I have that issue. I was practicing dry-firing today and trying to get the trigger to surprise me when it breaks. As I draw back the trigger, it's not smooth--it moves, then almost catches on something, moves a bit more, then finally breaks. Is that the grittiness people are speaking of? Can I expect that to get better as I fire more rounds (or do more dry-firing), or is my only recourse to get a smith to replace the offending parts? I guess it's a sign of improvement that now I'm starting to be concerned with how the trigger breaks. At the start, it was all I could do, it seemed, to get the sights to line up. TIA. __________________ . Occam's Razor: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck.

05-12-2008, 01:57 PM	#3
Baldy XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Tallahassee, FL Posts: 106	Have you tried cleaning it yet? I had some grittiness, turned out to be dirt. __________________ XD45C bi-tone 450 rnds

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05-12-2008, 02:08 PM	#4
Joeywhat XDTalk 2K Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Dearborn Heights, MI Posts: 2,973	Clean everything very well and oil it up good as well. My Walther P22 had a gritty trigger and slide release. I lubed up the trigger mechanism, and took apart the slide release and oiled that up as well. Now it's very smooth. Running a good 1500 rounds through it didn't hurt, either...

05-12-2008, 02:24 PM	#5
SEH95B XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Michigan Posts: 26	Both my XDs smoothed up pretty quick curtesy of shoot clean repeat.

05-12-2008, 02:48 PM	#6
Raptor1956 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 369	Do you have to dissasemble anything besides removing the slide to do this work? Brian

05-12-2008, 04:15 PM	#8
Nosrac XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: The hood, WA Posts: 160	You may want to look down the hole at the sear and striker as you slowly pull the trigger. I could see when I pulled the trigger really slow the striker tab would studder up the sear until it fired. I cleaned up the sear, safety, ejector with wet 400 and 600 and did a little bit polishing on the striker tab and now it runs extremely smooth. I did just a little bit at a time and tried it until I had all the offending parts working nicely. Good tips on the other thread to do all of this.