Very recently, I picked up a Springfield Armory XD-9 service model.
Had a chance to take it out to the range, and I am one happy camper!
It was an indoor type range and there I was able to put 240 rounds through it.
I had a mix of WWB FMJ's, Remington JHP's(both 115 gr.), Cor-Bon 125 gr. +p JHP's, and Speer gold dot 124 gr. +p JHP's.
I was shooting at distances that ranged from 10 feet to 50 feet.
Shot it two-handed and one-handed. My groups ranged anywhere from just under two inches to about four and a half inches. The best groupings were attained with the Remington JHP's at all distances. My worst were with the Cor-Bon's. It seems that the pistol's POI is just a tad high from POA. Then again, SA states that they sight the pistol in at six o' clock.
There was one malfunction, that I believe was ammo related. It was with the Cor-Bon's. I noticed that the Cor-Bon's had the shortest OAL of all of the cartridges on hand. I think it also might have had something to do with the bullet's "different" ogive. When I loaded up the first magazine of said ammo, the first cartridge got "stuck" between the mag lips and feed ramp. With a little fiddling around, the problem round was cleared easily. There was no apparent external flaws with the cartridge. Reloaded the magazine, racked the slide, went bang. Hmmm... I'm not worried, but I have to do more testing with the Cor-Bons before I trust them in this pistol.
I feel the XD and I did well with both slow and rapid fire. The pistol is capable of better accuracy than that of the shooter. Tried to limp wrist it and had no problems. As for the trigger, it was just right. For Me, It feels great in the hand and is very controllable when firing. I like it much more than the Glock I rented a couple of months ago. Nothing against Glocks, the XD has a better fit and feel for Me in this case. I'm taking it out this weekend and can't wait to see what happens.
That's all I can think of right now, if I remember anything else I'll add it here.
By the way...I do believe a Sub-compact model is in My future for CCW.
Had a chance to take it out to the range, and I am one happy camper!
It was an indoor type range and there I was able to put 240 rounds through it.
I had a mix of WWB FMJ's, Remington JHP's(both 115 gr.), Cor-Bon 125 gr. +p JHP's, and Speer gold dot 124 gr. +p JHP's.
I was shooting at distances that ranged from 10 feet to 50 feet.
Shot it two-handed and one-handed. My groups ranged anywhere from just under two inches to about four and a half inches. The best groupings were attained with the Remington JHP's at all distances. My worst were with the Cor-Bon's. It seems that the pistol's POI is just a tad high from POA. Then again, SA states that they sight the pistol in at six o' clock.
There was one malfunction, that I believe was ammo related. It was with the Cor-Bon's. I noticed that the Cor-Bon's had the shortest OAL of all of the cartridges on hand. I think it also might have had something to do with the bullet's "different" ogive. When I loaded up the first magazine of said ammo, the first cartridge got "stuck" between the mag lips and feed ramp. With a little fiddling around, the problem round was cleared easily. There was no apparent external flaws with the cartridge. Reloaded the magazine, racked the slide, went bang. Hmmm... I'm not worried, but I have to do more testing with the Cor-Bons before I trust them in this pistol.
I feel the XD and I did well with both slow and rapid fire. The pistol is capable of better accuracy than that of the shooter. Tried to limp wrist it and had no problems. As for the trigger, it was just right. For Me, It feels great in the hand and is very controllable when firing. I like it much more than the Glock I rented a couple of months ago. Nothing against Glocks, the XD has a better fit and feel for Me in this case. I'm taking it out this weekend and can't wait to see what happens.
That's all I can think of right now, if I remember anything else I'll add it here.
By the way...I do believe a Sub-compact model is in My future for CCW.
