Chambering Problem

[Outsider]

Has anyone had a problem with chambering a round when you cock your XD? It seems that it sticks just a little when I cock it to put the first round in. Then I just hand pumped it out and ejected all the rounds of one clip and they didn't seem to come out smooth. Anyone know what the problem might be?

[exdee]

Originally Posted by Outsider

Has anyone had a problem with chambering a round when you cock your XD? It seems that it sticks just a little when I cock it to put the first round in. Then I just hand pumped it out and ejected all the rounds of one clip and they didn't seem to come out smooth. Anyone know what the problem might be?

Sorry, it's a magazine, not a clip. WWII M1 Garand's have clips. You did not fully describe how you are working the slide to chamber the first round. It should be with a "snapping" motion, think of how it works when the gun fires, not slow. Don't let your hand ride the slide forward. If you are starting with a locked back slide, insert mag and snap slide to rear with hand and release letting it slide forward without you hand on it. If you are loading round from a closed slide, insert mag and grasp slide and snatch it to the rear and let it go so it can snap forward, again without letting your hand ride the slide forward. I cannot offer any more advice with knowing exactly how you are trying to chamber the round.

[apierce918]

they didnt come out smooth because you arent hand pumping fast enough... that sounds dirty

[zman]

Originally Posted by exdee

If you are starting with a locked back slide, insert mag and snap slide to rear with hand and release letting it slide forward without you hand on it. If you are loading round from a closed slide, insert mag and grasp slide and snatch it to the rear and let it go so it can snap forward, again without letting your hand ride the slide forward.

Ahhhh, being a noob, now I know I should let it "snap" forward. That's why the Glock I rented has problems since I helped the slide with my hands a few times

[Outsider]

Originally Posted by exdee

Sorry, it's a magazine, not a clip. WWII M1 Garand's have clips. You did not fully describe how you are working the slide to chamber the first round. It should be with a "snapping" motion, think of how it works when the gun fires, not slow. Don't let your hand ride the slide forward. If you are starting with a locked back slide, insert mag and snap slide to rear with hand and release letting it slide forward without you hand on it. If you are loading round from a closed slide, insert mag and grasp slide and snatch it to the rear and let it go so it can snap forward, again without letting your hand ride the slide forward. I cannot offer any more advice with knowing exactly how you are trying to chamber the round.

My bad on wrong name, early in the morning. I slap the magazine into the firearm and always give it an extra "slap" to make sure it is in nicely. I grip the back of the slide and rack it back hard and let go, not taking it forward myself. That is when I feel in the gun hand that it seemed to have a hard time loading that first round. Now when I put an entire magazine through I was doing it by hand so that might have been the problem, but it just didn't seem to feed right when racking it and letting that first round go in.

Has anyone looked to see if there is a small slit between their barrel and the slide in the yellow boxed area:



Just seemed to not look right.

[exdee]

Originally Posted by Outsider

My bad on wrong name, early in the morning. I slap the magazine into the firearm and always give it an extra "slap" to make sure it is in nicely. I grip the back of the slide and rack it back hard and let go, not taking it forward myself. That is when I feel in the gun hand that it seemed to have a hard time loading that first round. Now when I put an entire magazine through I was doing it by hand so that might have been the problem, but it just didn't seem to feed right when racking it and letting that first round go in.

Has anyone looked to see if there is a small slit between their barrel and the slide in the yellow boxed area:

That's an additional loaded chamber indicator, it allows you to see the rear end of the cartridge. What type of ammo are you trying to load? Try this with your procedure next time; Before inserting mag, take mag and slap backside of mag into palm of your hand to fully seat cartridges in mag all the way to the rear of the mag, then insert mag into pistol and not "slap" it into gun or give it an extra slap after insertion. It's possible cartridges are sliding forward a little when slapping it and causing a feeding issue. Then snap slide and see if that's any better. Gun in your picture is older model before they added the cut to slide to view chamber. It's hard to diagnois a physical problem with words and keyboard//lol

[Outsider]

So that is why it seems to have a gap there! Okay, I just checked and yeah, I can see the tail end of my round in the chamber. Nice to know that.

When I slapped the mag bottom the top round moved forward, so that might be what happened when I gave it the extra "slap" to make sure it fully in. I then slapped the backside and no moving. Put it in without anything extra and racked it back hard and let go, going perfect. Yeah! I was thinking something more was wrong.

Thanks exdee, loads of help there.

And personally I forgot what type of ammo I bought at the range, I just asked for .40S&W but before I was shooting Blaze Brass.

[AZXD]

I'm curious ... How many rounds have you put through this gun, and what type of ammo are you using ??
As someone mentioned, perhaps there is a slight burr on the feedramp that can be polished out or just shoot the thing for a while. If it continues to do this after 500+ rounds .. It shouldn't.

Example:
My XD9 went to the range on day one and I didn't have a problem feeding. By the end of the day I had launched 500 Winchester White Box (WWB) 115g Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) through it. I didn't attempt to shoot any defensive ammo until I had done this.

A new gun will sometimes need to be broken in before it will feed properly, and in some cases a gun just won't like the shape of a particular bullet.

The follow-up ... I swear .. My XD9 will feed rocks and go bang. The only thing I haven't tried to shoot is a SemiWadCutter (SWC) style bullet.

[Outsider]

I've only put about 150 through it but should be putting another 300 through this weekend because I'm taking two buddies shooting with it. When I was shooting with it I had Blaze Brass but to be honest forgot what I have in it now.