I received my new XDe yesterday from Patriot Arms USA.
I have been accustomed to carry my Taurus 709 Appendix IWB, so that is what I have in mind as my standard. I got the XDe for the same purpose, appendix IWB CC.
The XDe came in a nice soft case with three 8 shot magazines and one 9 with the extension sleeve.
Two of the 8s came with flat plates, one with a pinky extension plate.
I found inside the package also a brush, a nylon holster, two extra optic fibers for the front sight and an extra flat plate for the magazines. Impressive!!!
But when I checked the XDe, it looked and felt gigantic in comparison to the 709. I thought then that I had made a mistake by choosing the XDe because of the size. It is longer, it is fatter, heavier and taller.
There is a pistol range at my FLL shop, so I went straight to test it. No cleaning or anything before I started shooting.
It felt good in my hand, so I did the first DA carefully and it didn't feel bad at all. A little stiffer pull than a CZ75 but a lot much softer than the one in the PPK.
The SA was a no-brainer. A little take up and then it brakes clean.
I then proceeded to do about 50 shots in sequences of two, DA first and then SA immediately after.
It recovers easily and allows you to transition from DA to SA rapidly, so, a two shot sequence is no problem.
I also tried some sequences of SA to establish point of impact and found out that it was grouping right on height but a little bit to the left. I found no difference on point of impact between DA and SA.
Up to this point I started feeling a lot much more at ease.
I used 115 gr range ammo, 115 gr IMI Di-Cut and 147 gr Remington UMC FMJ. Not s single FTF or FTE or Fail anything.
A friend of mine, small guy, 5' 8" and 170 lbs, is an Air Marshal and carries Appendix IWB a Sig 229 that weights a ton and is very fat. He uses a minimalistic holster called Versacarry and goes around in T-Shirt and shorts and you can't tell he is carrying! Of course I'm partial now to the Versacarry.
It was time to go home, so I put the XDe in the Versacarry and put it appendix. It didn't feel much different than the 709. Drove home and kept it CC the rest of the day. I came to the conclusion that I didn't make a mistake.
The only thing bothering, but very little, was the hammer poking my belly. I think that I'll get a bobbed hammer sometime in the future.
Thank you to the folks in HS Croatia that designed a very nice pistol and to Springfield for discovering this jewel.
I have been accustomed to carry my Taurus 709 Appendix IWB, so that is what I have in mind as my standard. I got the XDe for the same purpose, appendix IWB CC.
The XDe came in a nice soft case with three 8 shot magazines and one 9 with the extension sleeve.
Two of the 8s came with flat plates, one with a pinky extension plate.
I found inside the package also a brush, a nylon holster, two extra optic fibers for the front sight and an extra flat plate for the magazines. Impressive!!!
But when I checked the XDe, it looked and felt gigantic in comparison to the 709. I thought then that I had made a mistake by choosing the XDe because of the size. It is longer, it is fatter, heavier and taller.
There is a pistol range at my FLL shop, so I went straight to test it. No cleaning or anything before I started shooting.
It felt good in my hand, so I did the first DA carefully and it didn't feel bad at all. A little stiffer pull than a CZ75 but a lot much softer than the one in the PPK.
The SA was a no-brainer. A little take up and then it brakes clean.
I then proceeded to do about 50 shots in sequences of two, DA first and then SA immediately after.
It recovers easily and allows you to transition from DA to SA rapidly, so, a two shot sequence is no problem.
I also tried some sequences of SA to establish point of impact and found out that it was grouping right on height but a little bit to the left. I found no difference on point of impact between DA and SA.
Up to this point I started feeling a lot much more at ease.
I used 115 gr range ammo, 115 gr IMI Di-Cut and 147 gr Remington UMC FMJ. Not s single FTF or FTE or Fail anything.
A friend of mine, small guy, 5' 8" and 170 lbs, is an Air Marshal and carries Appendix IWB a Sig 229 that weights a ton and is very fat. He uses a minimalistic holster called Versacarry and goes around in T-Shirt and shorts and you can't tell he is carrying! Of course I'm partial now to the Versacarry.
It was time to go home, so I put the XDe in the Versacarry and put it appendix. It didn't feel much different than the 709. Drove home and kept it CC the rest of the day. I came to the conclusion that I didn't make a mistake.
The only thing bothering, but very little, was the hammer poking my belly. I think that I'll get a bobbed hammer sometime in the future.
Thank you to the folks in HS Croatia that designed a very nice pistol and to Springfield for discovering this jewel.
