New XDS Range Report

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Nathan

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We bought an XDS a week and a couple days ago. It was easy to buy and they had the 3 free mag offer. GREAT!

Last night, my wife and I went out shooting. Maybe 175 rounds at the indoor range. I think she had zero issues and enjoyed herself.

I had trouble about 1 FTFire every 2-4 mags. It was caused by the gun getting within 1/16" or less of full lock up....then the trigger would seem to release the striker. It would dent the edge of the primer and not fire. Good, since it was out of battery. Still, it would drop the striker and dent the top of the primer.

As the gun smoothed up, it quit hanging up out of battery. I tried to recreate with an empty case and holding out of battery....Can not recreate.

100 flawless rounds today. Hmmm....I guess it is breaking in??... The good thing is this is not a self defense gun, just a shooter.


On a positive note, I enjoyed shooting it and got it to throw lead into a 7 yd and 10 yd bullseye easily. My wife struggled a bit more, but did well. She needs to decide if she is right or left handed.
 
I like the XDS, I recently got the 9mm and .45 version (3.3") and got the 3 free mags with each. Both have been flawless so far, really like them as a whole.

Are you sure the hang ups were gun related and not ammo related? I've bought ammo before that was slightly out of spec (too much belling in case) and it wouldn't chamber all the way.

Congrats on the XDs.
 
Hmmm.... Interesting idea... I know I had it with AL case Federal. With the S&B, I forget, but I thought it happened 1 time with that....I guess I need to start taking notes...
 
When I got my XD's 45 I had read the recommendations about it.

1st was about being sure to actively engage the slide. Then about keeping a good hold onto the gun while firing.
Its a real short action with a heavy spring. Needs to be Man handled.

When I received the fire arm, I did a complete disassemble and cleaning.
Lubed it in the specified areas.

Then I dry fired it and cycled the action a few hundred times to loosen every thing up. Most likely more than a few hundred. I quit counting after 200.

The 1st 200 rounds were retail purchased. ( hard for me since I hate buying retail ammo) But I did not want my hand loads factoring in to the break in period.
Then after that started shooting my variety of hand loads and my Carry ammo.

So far I am up to around 1000 rounds. No failures of any kind, even with those super hard Tula primers.

For 9mm I dont know what the recommended break in is for those. Wonder if they use the same heavy arse spring on those?
 
We bought an XDS a week and a couple days ago. It was easy to buy and they had the 3 free mag offer. GREAT!

Last night, my wife and I went out shooting. Maybe 175 rounds at the indoor range. I think she had zero issues and enjoyed herself.

I had trouble about 1 FTFire every 2-4 mags. It was caused by the gun getting within 1/16" or less of full lock up....then the trigger would seem to release the striker. It would dent the edge of the primer and not fire. Good, since it was out of battery. Still, it would drop the striker and dent the top of the primer.
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She has no problem, but you do. Suggests (to me) a handling problem of some sort. Something you are doing but she isn't.

I bought one, and XDS9 3.3, in July. Before I did I asked folks' opinion (in another Internet gun forum). One person reported that they were somewhat unreliable ("we send back a lot of them"). Web searching pulled up reports of feeding problems, that seemed to be ammunition dependent.

I've got ~250-300 rounds through mine so far. FMJ, lead handloads, a motley collection of white box hollowpoints, and about a box worth of dollar-per-round social purposes ammo. Not one feeding problem yet. It'll do. The only problem I have is that it's quite difficult to latch the slide open manually.
 
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