Due to being out of work for a knee replacement surgery next week, I am unable get out to break in my new XDm 4.5" 9mm. I have taken it out once and really like it. My question is this, will cycling a few hundred snap caps through it help smooth out the trigger until I am able to get out again.
Thanks
Ken
Tell ya how I do all new pistols I buy. I put a fired, empty case that still has the spent primer in it in the chamber. Close the slide. Then I cock the hammer and push pretty hard on the back of the hammer with my thumb and pull the trigger. I've never broke anything in the 30+ years of doing them like that and I always end up with an incredible trigger. Most folks that shoot my pistols think I've had trigger work done. I've never been a fan of snap caps as it bounces the firing pin. I'd rather see it hit the spent primer and stop. Not going to say my way is the best or only way, just how I do it. I end up with some mighty fine triggers after a few hundred let offs.
Thanks Trapper, so your pushing the back of the slide forward, and then pulling the trigger, is that correct?
I'm pushing on the back of the hammer. It's kinda like adding a heavier main spring and makes the sear work in faster.
Morning Trapper, with the XDm, there is not an external hammer, so I guess I'm out of luck.
Thanks
Ken
Dry fire won't hurt that gun. I would not bother with the snap caps.
Rule of thumb is 100+ dry fires for every live round. No reason not to get ahead of that game. There are some sconces in my living room I am not super attached to, and they make fine aim-points while I binge watch whatever on netflix.
Thanks man, so all of these firing pin / roll pin breakage issues that I have been reading about shouldn't be a problem
Ken
Not gonna say it can't happen. On the one side the XD+m have a firing pin retaining pin and it does bear the full brunt of the impact when you don't use a snap cap or spent round.
OTOH:
https://blog.springfield-armory.com/beginners-guide-to-dry-firing
I would have thought SA would call it out if they had serious concerns about one of their own guns.
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