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Well, I finally managed to get out with the XD and 140 rounds of ammunition.
The gun was cleaned and lubed prior to shooting, and seemed to be in good working order to my admittedly untrained eye.
It's very accurate, for a service gun, with five-shot, slow-fire groups coming out to about 3." This is very good for me, as I'm not nearly as good a shot as some of you guys. I imagine it's capable of much better, but I just can't quite get that out of it. At any rate, keeping them in the 9 ring was no problem, and it would take an extreme novice or a bad day to make it difficult to keep them in the black.
Recoil seemed soft for a .45, -- no worse than most 9mms I've shot -- and the trigger, which seemed good when I got the gun, smoothed up quite a bit over the course of the afternoon.
It fed FMJ, and both Hornady XTP and Speer Gold Dots, the two most radically different Hollowpoints I could find, with no difficulty, but that didn't keep it completely trouble-free.
It had two malfunctions, which I'm attributing, for the moment, to the gun not being broken in, yet. On the 36th round, the gun's slide locked open with rounds still in the magazine, and on the 95th round, it failed to return to battery. In order to fix that problem, I had to lock the slide open, and then release the slide-stop, so that the slide slammed shut. The gun would not return to battery, otherwise.
To it's credit, it never malfunctioned again. However, I only fired 45 more rounds, beyond that point, as my ammunition budget was rendered a bit tight by the purchase of the gun, itself.
I really like this gun, so I'm hoping these problems clear up, but if they don't, I'll discard it. There are lots of good .45s out there.
The gun was cleaned and lubed prior to shooting, and seemed to be in good working order to my admittedly untrained eye.
It's very accurate, for a service gun, with five-shot, slow-fire groups coming out to about 3." This is very good for me, as I'm not nearly as good a shot as some of you guys. I imagine it's capable of much better, but I just can't quite get that out of it. At any rate, keeping them in the 9 ring was no problem, and it would take an extreme novice or a bad day to make it difficult to keep them in the black.
Recoil seemed soft for a .45, -- no worse than most 9mms I've shot -- and the trigger, which seemed good when I got the gun, smoothed up quite a bit over the course of the afternoon.
It fed FMJ, and both Hornady XTP and Speer Gold Dots, the two most radically different Hollowpoints I could find, with no difficulty, but that didn't keep it completely trouble-free.
It had two malfunctions, which I'm attributing, for the moment, to the gun not being broken in, yet. On the 36th round, the gun's slide locked open with rounds still in the magazine, and on the 95th round, it failed to return to battery. In order to fix that problem, I had to lock the slide open, and then release the slide-stop, so that the slide slammed shut. The gun would not return to battery, otherwise.
To it's credit, it never malfunctioned again. However, I only fired 45 more rounds, beyond that point, as my ammunition budget was rendered a bit tight by the purchase of the gun, itself.
I really like this gun, so I'm hoping these problems clear up, but if they don't, I'll discard it. There are lots of good .45s out there.