![]() ![]() There is a full-time ambidextrous magazine release – I like that a lot. The trigger has a blade safety in the middle of it – a la Glock, much like many other striker-fired guns have. Moving down to the frame, you will see a single Picatinny rail that only has one cut – one position – for installing a light or laser. The barrel on the standard XD 9 is 4-inches long – perfect for concealed carry in the right holster as well as open or duty carry, too. Most semiauto handguns will allow the barrel to come slightly out of battery, and you won’t be able to fire – simple as that. If you are in a situation where you have the muzzle of the gun pressed up against a bad buy’s body, the slide won’t come out of battery and the gun can still be fired. This is designed that way for one good reason. There is a dual captive recoil spring guide and one of the first things you may notice is that the recoil spring sticks out past the barrel ever so slightly. You can both see it and feel this indicator – so you know there is a round in the chamber when that is seen or felt. You will also notice there is a tiny hole in the rear of the slide, and when the XD 9 is cocked and there is a round in the chamber there is a tiny protrusion. There are slide serrations front and read, on both sides of the slide – and they are deeply milled into the slide, for a sure grip. The slide has the combat-style three-dot white sights, two on the rear sight and one on the front – very fast to pick up under stress. The barrel and slide have a Melonite finish, and it is tough stuff – will hold up to the elements easily. I just talked to a friend who said he found a new gun shop, and 9mm FMJ was selling for $55 per box!īack to the XD 9, the frame is black polymer, and the slide is black forged steel, as well as the barrel being forged. Of course, that’s no longer the case – all handgun ammo is priced too high. Of course, before this latest, and ongoing ammo drought - that I believe will last for years to come - 9mm ammo was a lot less expensive than the. 45 ACP loaded with quality JHP ammo are all very close in “power” when it comes to stopping a violent attack – their stats say there is only a few points difference between the stopping power of those three calibers. The FBI is also stating in their tests, that the 9mm. Agreed, the 9mm is a lot easier to shoot accurately, and faster. 40 S&W accurately because of the stout recoil – including law enforcement. However, a lot of people just couldn’t shoot the. 40 S&W is a better stopper than the 9mm is. I believe most of that comes from the fact that the FBI, switched back to the 9mm chambering, and many police departments followed suit – as did a lot of civilians. 40 S&W caliber has fallen out of favor with both law enforcement and civilians. 40 S&W – but you can probably find one if you do a search on the ‘net. The XD under review for this article is the original version, and it is simply called the XD 9 – and it is chambered in 9mm Parabellum. Their hottest seller these days is the Hellcat, and while not “exactly” an XD, you can see the family resemblance in the Hellcat. Other than that, there were no other failures of any kind and I put thousands of rounds through that gun in two years.Īs many readers will surely know, Springfield Armory, has a full line-up in the XD line these days, from the original XD, to he XDm, the XDs and many other XD handguns – and each time around, Springfield improved on the newer models. I stopped using that ammo years ago – obviously, very poor quality control. I was doing a qualification course, for armed private security here in Oregon, and I was using the then yellow box Remington 180-grain FMJ ammo – and while using this ammo, I had two loaded rounds that wouldn’t fully chamber – they were oversized and wouldn’t chamber in any of the. I liked it that much!ĭuring my carry period with the XD, I only had just two malfunctions, and they were NOT related to the gun. I believe that this was the longest period of time that I ever carried one particular handgun in my entire life. The only time I didn’t carry it, was when I was testing other handguns for my review articles. ![]() I carried an early-production XD chambered in. Soon, sales of this gun took off, like you wouldn’t believe. Rebranded by Springfield Armory, it became known as the XD9. Springfield Armory soon purchased the rights to market the HS2000 in the States. It was (and is) being made in Croatia, and when it was first marketed here in the USA, the importer just didn’t quite market it in the right way. It looked very similar to the Glock line of handguns. Some years ago, there was a 9mm pistol coming into the States, called the HS2000. ![]()
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