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KevH · 04-16-2006, 11:13 AM

I just finished my 6th week (of 26) in the academy and am thinking about what to carry when I get done. My agency has a very open firearms policy so this is kinda difficult. They issue the SW99 in 40 S&W which I can't stand. I already own a Glock 22, but I really like the way the XD's feel in my hand. I want to buy an XD in the next couple months, send it off to Robar to get NP3'd, put on a set of Heinie sights and have it ready to go for when I start FTO in September. The only problems I'm having with this is:

a) 40 S&W or 45 ACP
b) 4" or 5"

I'm also kinda bummed about the Safariland 6280 w/no light being the only holster available (my agency only approves Safariland basketweave). Do any of you guys have a picture a 5" XD in a 6280? What do you think?

danp · 04-16-2006, 03:52 PM

I carry a 4" XD-45 in a blade-tech holster. The holster won't pass muster if you must have basketweave. I went with th 4" because it is slightly more comfortable while seated in a patrol car.

Boma · 04-16-2006, 11:48 PM

Definately get the 45ACP. I'm sure you can handle the recoil.
If you can carry the 5" comfortably. Get the 5". I shot one and the recoil wasn't much more than my 4" XD9.

04-16-2006, 11:13 AM	#1
KevH XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Contra Costa County, CA Posts: 6	Which XD? I just finished my 6th week (of 26) in the academy and am thinking about what to carry when I get done. My agency has a very open firearms policy so this is kinda difficult. They issue the SW99 in 40 S&W which I can't stand. I already own a Glock 22, but I really like the way the XD's feel in my hand. I want to buy an XD in the next couple months, send it off to Robar to get NP3'd, put on a set of Heinie sights and have it ready to go for when I start FTO in September. The only problems I'm having with this is: a) 40 S&W or 45 ACP b) 4" or 5" I'm also kinda bummed about the Safariland 6280 w/no light being the only holster available (my agency only approves Safariland basketweave). Do any of you guys have a picture a 5" XD in a 6280? What do you think?

04-16-2006, 03:52 PM	#2
danp XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 1,283	I carry a 4" XD-45 in a blade-tech holster. The holster won't pass muster if you must have basketweave. I went with th 4" because it is slightly more comfortable while seated in a patrol car. __________________ God made cops so that firefighters could have heros too. "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." - Ernest Hemingway

04-16-2006, 11:48 PM	#3
Boma XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 684	Definately get the 45ACP. I'm sure you can handle the recoil. If you can carry the 5" comfortably. Get the 5". I shot one and the recoil wasn't much more than my 4" XD9. __________________ The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. -Sun Tzu

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