Hey All, I discovered a valuable safety tip this afternoon concerning my Springfield Armory XD-s 3.3, .45 ACP, (my CCW-EDC), and wanted to share it with whomever it may concern as a safety heads up...
The back story is, the XD-s grip by itself can be painful to shoot with for any length of time. It has a very aggressive "waffle" style mesh engraved into the handle. To alleviate some of the pain I installed a set of Talon Grips, (a rubberized decal), and the felt recoil in this area got better but the Talon Grips did not stay intact for long. They began to peel off at the backside of the grip after a couple of hundred rounds over a period of time. So I then installed a Pachmyr "Slip-On Tactical Grip Glove". Which I seem to really like much better than the Talon (decal) Grips as far as overall feel goes. I've had the Pachmyr's on my XD-s for about two weeks now. I haven't been to the range with them yet.
This afternoon I field stripped the XD-s to do weekly clean-up, wipe down and lube. When I put the XD-s back together I began to go through the routine function checks, with the gun still unloaded, and I discovered that the gun fired with the grip safety not engaged, or so I thought. Now the XD-s has a trigger safety and a grip safety, both of which have to be engaged at the same time for the gun to fire. In this case when I squeezed the trigger with out my palm pressing in the grip safety the gun fired...it's not suppose to do that!
What was causing this to happen is the Pachmyr grip had crepted it's way upward on the gun's grip just enough to hold the grip safety lever in, in the engaged position allowing the trigger to fire during my function checks. When I reset the Pachmyr grip back below the grip safety lever all returned to normal. Yikes... I don't want to have to keep checking to see if the Pachmyr grip has relocated itself enough to engage the grip safety while I'm carrying it in the holster.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this right now but I wanted to share this to all who have an XD-s or similar gun with this type of a Pachmyr grip on it.
The back story is, the XD-s grip by itself can be painful to shoot with for any length of time. It has a very aggressive "waffle" style mesh engraved into the handle. To alleviate some of the pain I installed a set of Talon Grips, (a rubberized decal), and the felt recoil in this area got better but the Talon Grips did not stay intact for long. They began to peel off at the backside of the grip after a couple of hundred rounds over a period of time. So I then installed a Pachmyr "Slip-On Tactical Grip Glove". Which I seem to really like much better than the Talon (decal) Grips as far as overall feel goes. I've had the Pachmyr's on my XD-s for about two weeks now. I haven't been to the range with them yet.
This afternoon I field stripped the XD-s to do weekly clean-up, wipe down and lube. When I put the XD-s back together I began to go through the routine function checks, with the gun still unloaded, and I discovered that the gun fired with the grip safety not engaged, or so I thought. Now the XD-s has a trigger safety and a grip safety, both of which have to be engaged at the same time for the gun to fire. In this case when I squeezed the trigger with out my palm pressing in the grip safety the gun fired...it's not suppose to do that!
What was causing this to happen is the Pachmyr grip had crepted it's way upward on the gun's grip just enough to hold the grip safety lever in, in the engaged position allowing the trigger to fire during my function checks. When I reset the Pachmyr grip back below the grip safety lever all returned to normal. Yikes... I don't want to have to keep checking to see if the Pachmyr grip has relocated itself enough to engage the grip safety while I'm carrying it in the holster.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this right now but I wanted to share this to all who have an XD-s or similar gun with this type of a Pachmyr grip on it.