Very cool. I wonder if it will be idpa legal since it is a factory gun.

Intriguing. I want the XD .45 Service Model with the optional thumb safety. Wish they would give that feature to other models in the lineup

Hi Guys

1)What is better XD (M) 9mm and 40SW Glock 17 or Gen 4 ???
2)And why XD (M) is not as good as the Glock or H & K, what’s missing ???3)What is the best 9mm ammunition, 40 S & W and 45ACP for the Pistol so that does not jam and do not smoke and does not dirty the barrel ???

Regards Poland
Coltomen1987

The reason the gun’s in 9mm is because for IPSC, IDPA, Steel Challenge and NRA Action (Bianchi Cup), 9mm is _the_ caliber to shoot. There’s no advantage (and plenty of disadvantage, mainly in recoil and ammo cost) to running a .40 or a .45 in the divisions in which the “competition” XDm would fit in those shooting games.

Actually shot one today at the range. All I have to say is awesome. I have never seriously considered any xd because I like the Glocks better but this has me sold. Great trigger and super accurate even with UMC.

9mm is not the caliber to shoot in all divisions. It is the main caliber in USPSA, production and very common in the IDPA events. If you shoot USPSA limited, Limited 10 then .40 is the caliber to shoot. Waiting for the new XDM 5.25 to come out in .40,

I currently own an XD 40 Cal and love it. Balance and accuracy is outstanding with very tight shooting patterns. Can’t wait for the arrival of the 5.25–I understand why they slotted the upper barrel to reduce weight but not sure if I trust that large opening. Could it cause issues later while firing i.e., jamming etc. etc.. Anyone know the cost yet???

I took a beginner’s course yesterday, and chose this gun because I figured it would be easier to hit the target with a long barrel. Although I’ve never shot with a pistol before, I consistently stayed within a few inches, perhaps 60% of the shots within the range of a quarter on both 10 and 21 feet. I know basically nothing about pistols outside of being able to name drop a few well known manufacturers, so the pick of this particular gun felt pretty random. Both me and my instructor were very surprised of how accurately I shot for a beginner. After reading the comments from this site and others, I realize I might have been really lucky to pick out a truly awesome gun, plain and simple.

I picked one up for $763 including tax

My local range is selling them for $750. I didn’t get a chance to run any rounds through it, but the balance felt great and it’s got a very short trigger reset. Trigger felt much smoother than my XD40 as well. 19 round capacity if I remember correctly.

I just bought a new one in ct today for 649.99

hi.the xdm 5.25 is awesome,but i like glock 34 gen4 too.im an owner of xdm9 and glock24.if someone shot with 5.25 and glock34 please what the diferences are?in the trigger?

Hey,
Ran across this one online, wanting to trade or sell for 700.00

What I’m about to say is for the purpose of trying to save lives by offering facts won in real-life experience as a reality check, not bash someone or start an arugment, so do yourself and your family a favor and listen to the voice of experience.

The opinion that 9mm is useless is sorely misinformed. In my 25 year and 4 month military career, I have caused and/or witnessed over 500 dead enemy combatants with one or two rounds from a standard issue M9 (Beretta 92F) 9mm, without all the malfunctions of the 1911 series sidearms that got friends of mine killed before it was replaced by the M9 (due to so many malfuctions and accuracy issues). Quite frankly, if I was a hostage, I’d rather be left to the mercy of the hostage taker than to have someone attempt a hostage-taker kill shot with a .45 ACP because they’d be more likely to hit me than the hostage-taker, but I’d rather someone weilding any decent 9mm proficiently enough to keep the barrel from shaking take the shot.

There is a lot of urban legend in the world of firearms, and due to the cost of hardware, it is absolutely foolish, not to mention potentially life-threatening, to base purchasing and training decisions on rash opinions made in the conspicuous absence of or contradiction to facts. You hit an aggressor anywhere within the thoracic cavity (the outline of the lungs) or the cranial-ocular cavity (basically an oval defined by a 1″ offset from the eyes as foci), they will die just as swiftly, proficiently, and spectacularly with a 9mm as with a .45, and you have a better chance of making the hit with the 9mm because as a look at any target will demonstrate, it’s much more accurate.

So to anyone who thinks that 9mm is useless, ask the cadre at any good training facility like Front Sight or Thunder Ranch what they see being the most accurate every day, what malfunctions the least and most every day, and get a look at some targets. Fire a couple of good defense rounds into a pork roast (closest thing to human flesh) and see if you think you’d survive those holes in your chest or your head.

And then think about your wife or child being held in front of some creep as a human shield, and all you can see of him is a cheekbone, an eye, the corner of a psychotic smirk and the hand that’s holding a knife or gun to your loved one’s head or throat. Imagine you need to place a shot in his eye to save your loved one, and you have a one-inch margin of error at 20 feet and five seconds or less to take the shot. Would you take it with a .45? With any .45 you’ve ever fired? Not me.

Most of you offering these opinions about what constitutes a good defensive weapon sound like competition shooters and weekend plinkers who think punching holes in paper targets from a static stance is all the defensive training you’ll ever need, not soldiers or civilians with proper training or any defensive experience, and you cannot imagine how different a combat or hostage situation is until you’ve experienced one — experienced the adrenaline dump phenomenon — and not recognizing that difference can easily get you or someone else killed. Not recognizing that under the most favorable circumstances your weapon is only capable of 2.5″ groups at 7 yards and that will double, triple, or even quadruple when you face an armed assailant can get your entire household killed.

Personally, I’ve made that shot successfully with a standard issue, unmodified M9 9mm 7 times, and I’ve never seen a .45, even a “match” .45, that I’d even attempt it with — who carries a “match” weapon for personal defense??? My XD(m) 9mm 4.5″ is accurate enough for a seasoned combat shooter to take that shot with, and my XD(m) 5.25 Competition is even better, but the 4.5″ barrel is already hard enough to conceal, especially in hot weather, without extending it another 3/4″.

So which to carry? It’s a tough call, and that’s the nature of defensive carry, especially defensive concealed carry: trying to find an acceptable balance point between combat-suitability, accuracy, concealability, and deployability. You will not become competent to make that decision by standing at the range emptying magazine after magazine from a fixed stance without drawing and firing from concealment under time pressure before every shot or two, let alone become competent to defend life with whatever weapon you’ve chosen. Get the facts necessary to choose the best weapon for your personal situation, get training, practice — including periods of “dry” practice daily — until your arms move quickly, fluidly, and competently to secure a grip on your concealed weapon, deploy, and fire accurately enough to place two rounds on an 8″ circle at 7 yards in under two seconds and you automatically survey the area to check for secondary threats before lowering your weapon.

Then continue to practice to maintain at least that minimum proficiency for the rest of your life. If you do so, the odds are that you will have better than a 50/50 chance of survival against all but a “self-realized” attacker — the attacker who sees attacking as a personal challenge and has risen to that challenge to the point of being proud of mastering it. The odds against such a foe are incalculable, even if you have become a self-realized defensive shooter, but they will be infinitely better if you are properly trained than if you are insufficiently trained or untrained because your chance of survival then is near zero.

I hope for your sake and that of your family that you never have to use defensive shooting skills for anything more than a sillouette-shooting competition, but given the choice between having it but not needing it and needing it but not having it, what would any rational and responsible man — or woman — do?

I apologize for the length of this post, but not for its content; as you can see, this is a grave subject filled with difficult decisions that most people, even people who consider themselves “expert shooters” are not prepared to deal with, and if the time I’ve spent making this post saves a single life, it will have been worth many times what I spent writing it, and I hope some of you have awakened enough the dark side of this subject enough to realize it was worth your while to read it.