OK so I took my XD40 to the range today to put some rounds through it
And I had about 2 or 3 jams
One I'm positive was a failed ejection of an empty shell, it got caught half inside the gun half out, so I just pulled the slide back and it and a live round were ejected
The second one was a failed reload so I pulled the slide back until it successfully fed into the chamber
And THEN on the last round of every magazine, the slide would re-rack and the firing pin indicator would be showing, but no round was in the chamber (chamber indicator was down of course). It would only kick back into the empty magazine stance on like every other magazine I emptied.
I didn't give the gun a good cleaning before I went out there, and I was using some ****** rounds from Academy Sports... they didn't real have a whole lot of kick to them it was weird feeling.
My last visit I used Blazer 165 grain
Today I used Monarch 180 grain
I was really disheartened by this. I thought XD's had just as much - if not more - reliability than a Glock (ugly, non-ergonomical guns IMO).
So verdict:
not cleaned?
the gun itself?
or crap rounds I was using?
And I had about 2 or 3 jams
One I'm positive was a failed ejection of an empty shell, it got caught half inside the gun half out, so I just pulled the slide back and it and a live round were ejected
The second one was a failed reload so I pulled the slide back until it successfully fed into the chamber
And THEN on the last round of every magazine, the slide would re-rack and the firing pin indicator would be showing, but no round was in the chamber (chamber indicator was down of course). It would only kick back into the empty magazine stance on like every other magazine I emptied.
I didn't give the gun a good cleaning before I went out there, and I was using some ****** rounds from Academy Sports... they didn't real have a whole lot of kick to them it was weird feeling.
My last visit I used Blazer 165 grain
Today I used Monarch 180 grain
I was really disheartened by this. I thought XD's had just as much - if not more - reliability than a Glock (ugly, non-ergonomical guns IMO).
So verdict:
not cleaned?
the gun itself?
or crap rounds I was using?