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Sitting at home before the Superbowl started after shooting for an hour at the range (had to get my fix), I decided to write a review on my newly aquired XD.
To date there has been 1,050 rounds through it, Remington UMC (FMJ), but also Wolf (Steel Case), Speer (Gold Dot), Federal (Hydroshok) and Winchester White Box FMJ, along with numerous remanufactured bulk ammo from the gunshows.
I have never had a Fail to feed or fail to eject with a single round put through the weapon, it has handled everything I have thrown at it flawlessly and put it on target accurately (minus operator error, but even the flyers definitely hit center mass and knocked down whatever I was shooting at).
The recoil is smooth, even with +P rounds, and the weapon is quick to get back on target, although there is a small amount of muzzle flip, but if my 100 lb. gf can get it back on target accurately and quickly I'm sure you can handle it ha.
The grip feel is superb, even though it is a compact handgun, and fits perfectly in my medium sized hands, but it was tried and tested by a range of shooting partners with hands ranging from large to tiny, and all were blown away by how comfortable it felt.
The construction is solid (although on earlier models I heard the finish on the slide was shoddy), this one is very resilient and had been abused as my carry gun and still looks like new out of the box. It is easy to field strip, clean and reassemble with minimal effort (read the manual or else the slide WILL fly off)
And at a price of under $500, it can't be beat (I picked mine up for $479)
I have no problem placing my life in this gun, it is accurate, resilient and friendly on wrists,despite being a compact .45. My friend was a diehard 9MM fan until he shot this gun and went out the next day and picked one up because of how impressed he was... It has now replaced his Sig 239 9mm as his daily carry weapon.
All in all I would highly recommend this gun to anyone looking for a carry weapon, or just a shooting gun.
Anyways...
Cheers,
Noble
Sitting at home before the Superbowl started after shooting for an hour at the range (had to get my fix), I decided to write a review on my newly aquired XD.
To date there has been 1,050 rounds through it, Remington UMC (FMJ), but also Wolf (Steel Case), Speer (Gold Dot), Federal (Hydroshok) and Winchester White Box FMJ, along with numerous remanufactured bulk ammo from the gunshows.
I have never had a Fail to feed or fail to eject with a single round put through the weapon, it has handled everything I have thrown at it flawlessly and put it on target accurately (minus operator error, but even the flyers definitely hit center mass and knocked down whatever I was shooting at).
The recoil is smooth, even with +P rounds, and the weapon is quick to get back on target, although there is a small amount of muzzle flip, but if my 100 lb. gf can get it back on target accurately and quickly I'm sure you can handle it ha.
The grip feel is superb, even though it is a compact handgun, and fits perfectly in my medium sized hands, but it was tried and tested by a range of shooting partners with hands ranging from large to tiny, and all were blown away by how comfortable it felt.
The construction is solid (although on earlier models I heard the finish on the slide was shoddy), this one is very resilient and had been abused as my carry gun and still looks like new out of the box. It is easy to field strip, clean and reassemble with minimal effort (read the manual or else the slide WILL fly off)
And at a price of under $500, it can't be beat (I picked mine up for $479)
I have no problem placing my life in this gun, it is accurate, resilient and friendly on wrists,despite being a compact .45. My friend was a diehard 9MM fan until he shot this gun and went out the next day and picked one up because of how impressed he was... It has now replaced his Sig 239 9mm as his daily carry weapon.
All in all I would highly recommend this gun to anyone looking for a carry weapon, or just a shooting gun.
Anyways...
Cheers,
Noble