Is there something wrong with the XD45?

[Byte Stryke]

I am really liking my XD45
I ran about 150 through it today.
the only thing I find is that it highlights my shooting flaws, Other than that, Great weapon and I have no problems with it.

Thank you Grave and sparky for taking such great care of it

[TDYRanger]

Believe what you what but the story isn't "BS".

There's a BIG difference in testing a firearm through a tactical school that really puts it through the ringer (ie. Tac. Response, Suarez, etc.) vs. standing still at the range in an isosceles putting slow, deliberate shots on paper. Big difference.

And for the record, I don't have a pony in this race or work for Glock. I could truly care less who is "better". When I first chose between the tupperware, I did my research and went with Glock, simple as that.

I have had both Glock and XD's. I have run through heavy tactical shooting with 300 rounds in a day. both Guns run good. About the same number of failures (next to none) both due to ammo. For me the XD is a better fit and a better pointer. I have 3 XD's and 2 XDm's and not one of them has been a clunker. Those guns just fits me better than glocks. I wanted to love glocks but they were not my cup of tea. I sure don't get the hate on that glock guys have for XD's

[Busta Prima]

I have a 1st gen XD45 and it's been great. In fact, it's my go to gun for home defense and I own many handguns.

[banks74]

Every tactical instructor I know of doesn't trust them because they jam up during classes. This applies to ALL XD models, the non M 9mm is the most reliable version, but this is relative. One 9mm locked up during fighting pistol. I can send you links to threads or just join getoffthex.com and search for xd problems (don't post the same question they don't like repeating themselves)

Get a glock or m&p.

Ya +1 on get a Glock. I had an xd 9 tactical. It was a piece of turd that jammed a lot. Only benefit I got out of it was a lot of fte, ftf and stove pipe clearing practice.

[streetglideok]

IMO, there may be some owners selling off XD45s so they can buy the XDM45. I knew of a few people in Oklahoma that were doing this, and it could be the case here. We have a M&P 40, and an XDM40, both with a few rounds fired thru them, mostly reloads. Easily 500+ rounds each, and the XDM was bought used, so who knows the round count on it. Neither one has jammed, hiccupped, or anything. They just go bang each time. My only fuss with my XDM is the trigger pull. With my long fingers, I had to retrain myself in how I held the gun, compared to my 1911s. Once I did that, it shot pretty accurate. IMO, any instructor pipping off about frequent major failures of one of the major gun makers, be it Glock, Colt, Smith, Springfield, etc., is probably biased, and his thoughts should be taken with a grain of salt. Now any of those saturday night specials out there, I could believe them having such issues.

[Chad4000]

Never really had problems with mine.. 1300 + rounds.. I wanna say something like 3 fte and one was on reloads, and one was my brother in laws girl friend shooting.... I trust mine... All of it was the cheapest ammo I could find too. This is a 9mm btw. And write honestly, I have heard nothing but good about them from any dealer I've talked too (cept glock guys of course)

[banks74]

If I remember correctly the CSP was looking at these, and had issues with them. They ended up going with M&P's.

[ldmaster]

Huh?

jam up during class?

And if we want to check your story, we have to join a social-networking site?

A members-only social networking site is going to have MORE information than the normal web and all of the firearms related forums that exist?

There is one reason and only one reason the XD has not been made popular by police departments, because they wont sell spare parts to ANYBODY.

The XD is just a boat anchor looking gun, no sexiness to it at all. And the majority of the people I know who sold their XD45's did so so they could buy an XDM45 with the fancy grip replacements and all the other little improvements they made.

XD had a real magazine supply problem a while back too, it didn't help it's sales at all. All in all Springfield Armory has a real blockhead for a marketing director, whoever it is that has been making decisions on the XD's rollout and liaison with the public and government sectors has GOT to be the product of two first-cousins breeding.

Police Chiefs and Sheriff's listen to their firearms instructors when it comes to picking pistols, and you DONT tell a professional police armorer that he "doesn't need spare parts" - because the word he'll pass on is that it's not an acceptable gun.

Cops don't own an XD because their departments dont approve them, yes I know a few HAVE approved them, but no major ones (yet). The perception that a pistol is good/bad is greatly influenced by whether or not the police can carry them. A gun that a cop uses gets exercised AT LEAST quarterly under stressful conditions, not to mention subject to daily wear and other use - and no cop is going to carry a gun off duty that he can't train with on duty, or have his armorer fix. And by and large if someone who doesn't own a gun looks around for an opinion about what gun to buy, chances are he or she will ask a cop they know. And you're going to hear things about what the cops carries, with 90 percent or better cops carrying ONLY weapons that their department approves - you've ignored the best marketing tool you could have by failing to find a way to get your pistol into their hands.

The M&P got popular not only because it took all the current design features and got them into the pistol quickly, but because they courted and listened to LE armorers. As a result the M&P is gaining market share daily.

All that being said, I go with Glock, because parts are DIRT CHEAP and there is a huge body of first hand knowledged about potential failure points.

I do own 2 XD's in 45, they have never failed me once in three years. I've sold a couple to others too, but not because I didn't trust them, but 5 XD45's was a bit much, even for me.

I would, without hesitation, recommend that any person shoot the XD45 to see if it fits them personally, but what do I know!

[TDYRanger]

Ya +1 on get a Glock. I had an xd 9 tactical. It was a piece of turd that jammed a lot. Only benefit I got out of it was a lot of fte, ftf and stove pipe clearing practice.

Have never had these issues. In any quantity. I shot 3 of my xd's on Friday about 200 rounds each, I was using some really cheap Russian ammo I wanted to test and had another 0 (ZERO) failure day. I think it has been over a year since I have had a single failure at the range or running and gunning. Don't know where all of the failure are coming from that are talked about. My wife doesn't even limp wrist it enough to induce the issues that are being talked about here.

[lebru]

go ahead and browse through this:
http://www.xdtalk.com/forums/general...ional-use.html

many different torture tests have been run, it never failed to fire. the same types of tests all the glock fanboys have run on their glocks.

tl;dr it is just as good as a glock as far as torture testing and extreme conditions go. so its personal preference.