Help my xds is jammed with a round in the chamber

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Ok guys my xds is jammed as in the slide won't open and there is a round in the chamber any ideas on how to clear it this is my ccw pistol and I am not at a range so any ideas
 
If the slide has gone fully into battery and the gun is cocked, I'd be heading to a range somewhere and pull the trigger. Other than that I'd just work at raking the slide. But if the gun is loaded and ready to fire, I'd do that. All else just seems really dangerous to me.
 
I have an XDs 45 and once when shooting some reloads I had a round jam in the chamber after it cycled. The slide did not return completely to battery and I could not pull the slide back due to the sticking round. I was at the farm so I just positioned the muzzle end of the slide down against a fence board (making sure to not block the barrel) and pushed to cycle the slide back. The extractor pulled the stuck round out. I believe the round was too large in OD and stuck in the chamber.
 
Generally the approach is to (pointing your muzzle in a SAFE direction and keeping your finger COMPLETELY free of the trigger guard) grasp the slide firmly with an overhand grip with your weak hand, and then drive your strong hand into the grip, HARD, until you "pop" that round free. Never seen one yet that we couldn't dislodge that way with 5-10 good whacks.

Otherwise, find a door frame and press the front corner of the slide against the wood and do the same routine to drive the frame forward and pop the round out. (Of course, you might ding the wood up, so use someone elses' door frame! :D)
 
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Generally the approach is to (pointing your muzzle in a SAFE direction and keeping your finger COMPLETELY free of the trigger guard) grasp the slide firmly with an overhand grip with your weak hand, and then drive your strong hand into the grip, HARD, until you "pop" that round free. Never seen one yet that we couldn't dislodge that way with 5-10 good whacks.

Otherwise, find a door frame and press the front corner of the slide against the wood and do the same routine to drive the frame forward and pop the round out. (Of course, you might ding the wood up, so use someone elses' door frame! :D)
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And then start cleaning it every couple of months or so so it doesn't get stuck together with corrosion.
 
Ok guys here is the deal I am at work on lunch ATM so here it is the mag is out there is a round of wwb hollow point in the chamber I went to unload it today at the sister in laws house and the slide will only move a little bit the barrel tries to tip down but like I said it only moves a little bit like 1/8 of inch and I can hear a rattling sound in it
 
Have you fired the gun to show it works? Ammo in good shape? Did the ejected round look too long or have no crimp or something? Have you looked at the chamber?
 
I got it to pop open any ideas as to why this happened
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The very most likely thing would be an out-of-spec round. Have you tried loading it again with a fresh round? Does a new factory round get stuck or work fine?
 
Wife had the same thing happen with her XD9 a long time ago. Someone else's reload had a high primer.
Took a couple stout whacks to get the slide moving.

Learned something new that day--that was before I had ever reloaded, and before I knew a thing about reloading or why one should never trust someone else's reloads...
 
Yes guys the round was bad I ran the rest threw the gun just fine and yes I have put several hundred rounds though it so I know it works
 
Good. One easy way to test chamber/round issues is pull the barrel and drop a round in the chamber. It should drop in and out with ease.
 
One easy way to test chamber/round issues is pull the barrel and drop a round in the chamber. It should drop in and out with ease.
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Doesn't really address the issue of too long a round which seems to have been the OP's issue. The too long round wedges the slide and barrel making it difficult to cam down to unlock.

Its good to know what to do (see SAM1911's post #6) as eventually you will run into an out of spec round no matter what if you shoot enough. Dropping 100's of thousands of rounds into my chambers would have been an incredible wast of time. It is however a very worth while check to make when you reload a new bullet type.


The XD has a quirk where the grip safety has to be depressed to cycle the slide, don't know about the XDm.
 
Wally yes you are correct it was a factory round so I had no reason to believe it was out of spec the oal was too Long so the plunk test does me no good in this situation
 
Doesn't really address the issue of too long a round which seems to have been the OP's issue. The too long round wedges the slide and barrel making it difficult to cam down to unlock.
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It should. If the round is too long, the bullet will jam into the rifling and not drop smoothly in and out in the "plunk" test. Usually. :)

Dropping 100's of thousands of rounds into my chambers would have been an incredible wast of time.
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That's exactly what a lot of match shooters do. The night before a big match, spend a half-hour at the table "plunk" testing each round they plan to take with them. Saves some really frustrating moments, and gives you one last chance to look for flipped primers and other such defects.


The XD has a quirk where the grip safety has to be depressed to cycle the slide, don't know about the XDm.
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Same.
 
Wally yes you are correct it was a factory round so I had no reason to believe it was out of spec the oal was too Long so the plunk test does me no good in this situation
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If it was stuck in the chamber and/or rifling, the plunk test would have caught it. But most of us don't plunk every round we fire. So it's good to know the "fix."
 
BUG !

A perfect post to show one of THE reasons to carry a BUG !.

Glad all is gtg - but consider the BUG as an option should you ever have a really = REALLY bad day.

Like your trying to use a pistol and it don't go bang.
 
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And you wonder why I use handloads for my CCW weapon..........
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Yeah, nobody has ever had a bad handload. :rolleyes:

I'm surprised that all the manufacturer's don't recommend that you ONLY use handloads instead of factory ammo, since handloads are so much more reliable. You'd think that using those unreliable factory loads would void the warranty. ;)
 
I have an XD-S in .45 Auto and I've noticed that it's not easy to eject a live round such as a 230gr JHP or MC, even if it has the correct OAL.
 
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