I wanted to get my g/f something she could attach a light to and was looking for something with the same trigger pull on each shot so I figured I'd try a Springfield XD9mm, it came with a tiny "tactical light" and is about the size of Glock 26.

I figured I'd make sure the thing worked at least before giving it to her so I rattled off about 60 rounds (Fiocchi fmj) through it last Thursday. I really just fired it to make sure it functioned (it was cold and I was knee deep in know). I did seem to be able to hit the upper half of the torso on one of those police silhouette targets that are ½ size pretty easily from 25 yards.

The trigger seemed better than a Glock but I think the higher barrel led to more felt recoil, it also felt more “top heavy” to me than a Glock.

Yesterday we took it to an indoor range and fired about 150 rounds of UMC through it. I mostly let her shoot it, but towards the end I shot it out to about 20 yards and was hitting to the right. I thought maybe I was getting tired or something so I brought the target in close and shot off the rest and still had the same problem. I switched to the Browning Buckmark we had with us and also shot a S&W .38 we had and was not throwing to the right (wouldn't be the first time I got a case of the "can'thitshits")

Also the slide started to periodically fail to lock open on the last round.

When I took the pistol out of the case last night I saw that the front sight was shifted out of position. The front of the front sight rides in a groove across the top of the slide, but the rear of the sight is pinned through a hole in the top of the slide and the rear of the sight had broken free, allowing the sight to move side to side in the groove along the top of the slide.

I did transport the gun with two other pistols in one of those doskocil type carriers with the Styrofoam, but I’m pretty sure none of the pistols were touching when I opened it and the case was just riding flat in the trunk on the way home. Also the sight did not appear to be dented or otherwise damaged from an impact, I have dented the plastic sights on Glocks before by dropping them and they dent instead of breaking, for whatever that’s worth.

Also I had noticed that the magazines “rattle” when loaded. I did take both apart and looked them over briefly but did not figure out what the rattling was. Extra magazines were pretty expensive at the two places I looked at $ 25-30 a piece.

I took it back to the gunstore and their gunsmith will just stick new sights on it (the gunstore has a 90 day warranty and Springfield has a lifetime limited warranty). Probably he won’t be able to duplicate the slide not staying back. Now that I think about it I probably should not have cleaned it in case that had something to do with it (which I doubt) but I was too embarrassed to bring the gun in all dirty.

Interesting-well I guess the hole could just be some manufacturing related hole that just happened to be under the sight, but the sight sure was moving freely back and forth.

I've never had any problem with the slide release on my other pistols, including the similar Glocks, but with the shorter grip on the XD I might be doing something different.

I have heard about the problems with the slide finish, if this pistol seems to be holding up after I get it back I may send it to Walter Birdsong, or somewhere similar. The recoil is a little stout for her so I may try her with a larger pistol to see if that's more comfortable, but with her small hands it's a pain finding pistols she's comfortable shooting.

Could be that it's my grip, but I've shot most commonly available semi-automatic pistols and never had this problem with another one. Honestly I didn't even think of it until after the pistol was at the gunshop and I stopped to mention on my way back home from a metting. It wasn't something I was too worried about, I figured it was a bum magazine or something else that was no big deal.

I already got a call that it's fixed, but I think I will use it some more myself before returning it to the g/f.

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Double action/single action, the answer to the question no one asked.

I added up how much I spent in guns in the last 6 months-scary.

Well I got the little XD back the gunsmith could not replicate the slide problem and came to the same conclusion,t hat it must be something about how I was holding it.

Several of us shot it some more today, about 200 rounds, mostly Remington FMJ but also a box of Cor Bon +p and some Blazer. I and one other shooter had a problem with the striker not going forward. I can only guess that our grip was too loose to fully engage the( @#$%ing stupid) grip safety.

Other than that it shot well, very accurate at close ranges, though at longer distances I couldn't make headshots with it, though that's probably an issue of lack of practice and familiarity with the pistol on my part.