Why does the XD-9 have such a short leade?

[Got_Lead?]

Some time back there was a post about their XD-9 not chambering their reloads.

So being curious, I tried cycling some of my lead boolit reloads in my XD, and lo and behold they wouldn't chamber either. This load used a Lee 125 grain round nose boolit, sized to .357, and had a COL of 1.10 inches. It chambered freely in my BHP, P-38, Luger, Beretta 92, SIG 226, and several other 9mm pistols in the gunsafe.

The chamber isn't exceptionally tight, but the leade to the rifling is shorter than other pistols.

I was just wondering why this pistol has such a short leade?

 

[grubbylabs]

I don't have any others to compare to, but when I did my load development for my cast bullets I did not notice any thing. They were just a smidgeon shorter than what the book called for but I did not give it any more thought since they are cast from custom molds. But they do shoot really well. Which reminds me, I need to shoot that gun so I can have some more brass to load.

 

[railroader]

I have an XD9 and I also have a few CZ pistols. The leade on the CZs seems way shorter than on the XD. What I have found is some cast round nose bullets have a stubby profile so I have to load them way shorter than FMJ bullets for the CZs. My XD really is more forgiving.

 

[jon_in_wv]

I bought some round nosed bullets a while ago that wouldn't chamber in some of my pistols if loaded to what the manual says. Interestingly they would chamber and fire in my M&P 9C but my M&P FS would not go into battery with the same load.

 

[GLOOB]

Well, a shorter leade might be a little more accurate for a given load. Arguably. To some this is a feature. To others, it's a negative.