XD 40 cal help!!

[azxd10]

Hey guys, just got a new canyon creek spring set installed on my xd. Now the gun wont chamber a round correctly all the time. Some times it will put one in just fine, other times it will put one in the chamber but will not engage the striker. Does anyone have any suggestions? Before the upgrade it worked great! Thanks in advance.

[Brickboy240]

Ok...don't get mad at me, but if everything was working fine before...why did you try to swap out parts?

I have learned one thing that stays with me in my years of collecting and playing around with guns: if it works fine as it is...leave it alone. I know its tempting to swap things around and replace perfectly working parts with all the aftermarket goodies everyone offers, but the truth is much of that stuff is completely unnecessary and can cause more troulbes than they fix.

There is an entire industry of people out there that are trying to "improve" on the perfectly working pistol you own. I have all those catalogues, too...their glossy photos and glowing reviews are very tempting.

The automotive industry also has an aftermarket like this - promising you better mileage, better handling, better braking or whatever. Some of these things deliver, but many do absolutely nothing you can measure and some actually do great harm.

I can only tell you what I have resorted to after plunking donw my share of greenbacks to Wilson and other aftermarket parts sellers:

...if I have a pistol that is functioning fine with all loads I feed it...I leave it alone. Want less recoil? Buy a 22 or less powerful caliber. Want higher capacity? Again, buy a gun with the capacity you want....and so on.

The only concessions I make on this is maybe some smoothing up of internal parts to smooth out a rough trigger.

Really, I'd contact Springfield and see if they'd send you a new replacement spring for an XD-40 and put it in and leave well enough alone.

I too have an XD-40 and it has worked perfectly from day one with everything I feed it. I am NOT about to go monkeying with something that runs perfect - theres a chance it might not be so perfect after trying to "improve" on it.

- brickboy240

[Tard]

I'm only going to tell you generic things you've probably already done:

Try different ammo first
If CC installed it, they will gladly take it back and fix it for free.
If they didn't install it, the gun who DID should take it back.

This is why I never do internal work on my guns, I don't know enough to fix it.
I can fix a television and a computer so I realize lots of guys can fix a gun, I'm just not one of them.

Tell us what you find out, please.

Added: Hey, I put a new trigger on all my guns, the 'lawyer triggers' they ship with guns these days are nuts.

[azxd10]

Brickboy--It was a CC spring kit I got from pistolgear.com. Everyone else said it worked great. Not mine. Going to go back to the original springs I think. Tried different ammo and the same result. I just wanted a better trigger (XD rocks stock, just wanted a little better one).

Tard-going to call the gunsmith today. He is a good guy. Thanks for the advice guys!