I haven't shot either of these guns, however I've seen them both and held the XD in the hand. I think it feels nice. They do make the XD in .45 now, you just might have to look a little harder. Also, just something to think about...I read an artical where a guy did a 20,000 round test on the XD under some pretty extreme conditions and he didn't have a single failure. He even ran a 1,000 round Glock test on the gun (i don't know if you know what that is but it basically amounds to freezing then gun, droping it in water, filling it with mud and all that good stuff) at somewhere around 17,000 rounds through the gun and there still wasn't any failure. I'd say that makes a darn reliable weapon. I'd feel comfortable putting my life on the line with that gun. It will be my next handgun purchase.