Gameface
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I’ve had my XD40 for about a month and a half and I’ve fired about 1100 rounds through it so far. Everything was fine through about 800 rounds, using mostly Wal-Mart WWB value packs. Before I started having the problem I changed my grip. A guy at the range was showing my buddy a few things and suggested weaving his pinky-finger of his shooting hand between the fore-finger and middle-finger of his support hand. I tried it and liked it and I’ve been doing it since.
What has happened is that after firing round three the slide locks back. The round fired and the case ejected. All I had to do was press the slide release (or stop, or lock, whatever you’d like to call it) and back to shooting. It’s only happened twice and both times on round three. I didn’t mark the mag it happened with either time so I’m not sure if it was the same one both times or not. I played with it a lot to get a feel for how the slide release could get pushed up and stop the slide between shots. I wondered if with my new grip I was hitting the lever with my thumb and pushing the release up during recoil? I’ve tried to pay very close attention to where I’ve got my thumb and it hasn’t happened again for the last little while. I’m just wondering if anyone else with an XD has experienced this? If it’s common for a person to hit the lever because they aren’t holding the gun properly? If it could be caused by limp-wristing (which I don’t think I do)? If a round in a defective magazine might push the slide-release up?
I love the gun and up until this happened twice I would have trusted my life to it.
Gameface
What has happened is that after firing round three the slide locks back. The round fired and the case ejected. All I had to do was press the slide release (or stop, or lock, whatever you’d like to call it) and back to shooting. It’s only happened twice and both times on round three. I didn’t mark the mag it happened with either time so I’m not sure if it was the same one both times or not. I played with it a lot to get a feel for how the slide release could get pushed up and stop the slide between shots. I wondered if with my new grip I was hitting the lever with my thumb and pushing the release up during recoil? I’ve tried to pay very close attention to where I’ve got my thumb and it hasn’t happened again for the last little while. I’m just wondering if anyone else with an XD has experienced this? If it’s common for a person to hit the lever because they aren’t holding the gun properly? If it could be caused by limp-wristing (which I don’t think I do)? If a round in a defective magazine might push the slide-release up?
I love the gun and up until this happened twice I would have trusted my life to it.
Gameface