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So its my second trip to the range with my new Springfield XD -40 subcompact. One modification made was smoothing the plastic portion of the trigger so that it wouldnt hurt so much to shoot the thing. As far as the trigger goes, the recoil still starts to sting a bit after about 150 rounds consecutively, almost like there is a bit of trigger slap which begins to hurt, but I can tolerate it with a band aide or some masking tape on my finger.
Anyone else experience this?
Accuracy was as per usual, dead on, easily hitting the silhouettes at 50 feet and being able to consistently ding a 3 inch bulls eye at 33 ft. Ammo was Winchester White Box 165gr. Wally World Value Pack. Range conditions were indoors, climate controlled with good visibility.
The feel of the gun is still good and after carrying it for a week every day, every where, this is the do everything gun to go to. I hardly notice its there.
Reliability, this is where Im starting to get a little nervous. Out of 200 rounds, the gun failed to eject twice, leaving the fired casing completely within the chamber, causing me to have to drop the mag and completely cycle the slide. Upon inspection of 4 different casings, it does not appear as if the extractor is really just gripping the rims as well as it could be. Another guy inspecting it with me did comment how it appeared to be griping the rim but not raking over it. Out of 2 failures to extract it was suggested that I try some different ammo, which I will, however as it stands now, the XD is not the be all end all of reliability that Springfield would have us all to believe.
So its my second trip to the range with my new Springfield XD -40 subcompact. One modification made was smoothing the plastic portion of the trigger so that it wouldnt hurt so much to shoot the thing. As far as the trigger goes, the recoil still starts to sting a bit after about 150 rounds consecutively, almost like there is a bit of trigger slap which begins to hurt, but I can tolerate it with a band aide or some masking tape on my finger.
Anyone else experience this?
Accuracy was as per usual, dead on, easily hitting the silhouettes at 50 feet and being able to consistently ding a 3 inch bulls eye at 33 ft. Ammo was Winchester White Box 165gr. Wally World Value Pack. Range conditions were indoors, climate controlled with good visibility.
The feel of the gun is still good and after carrying it for a week every day, every where, this is the do everything gun to go to. I hardly notice its there.
Reliability, this is where Im starting to get a little nervous. Out of 200 rounds, the gun failed to eject twice, leaving the fired casing completely within the chamber, causing me to have to drop the mag and completely cycle the slide. Upon inspection of 4 different casings, it does not appear as if the extractor is really just gripping the rims as well as it could be. Another guy inspecting it with me did comment how it appeared to be griping the rim but not raking over it. Out of 2 failures to extract it was suggested that I try some different ammo, which I will, however as it stands now, the XD is not the be all end all of reliability that Springfield would have us all to believe.
