XD9 tactical and Dry Firing...

[lawrra]

If you decide to dry fire anyway...striker retaining pins are relatively cheap. PISTOLGEAR | YOUR ONE-STOP SHOP FOR ALL SPRINGFIELD XD
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[edsinger]

Get some snap caps. lawrra is correct about dry fire putting excessive stress on the XD's striker retaining pin. I broke mine during a period of daily dry fire and Springfield refused to send me a replacement... they wanted me to send the slide in instead.

Ouch, then maybe I wont. Geez, lots of opinions on this question indeed.

If you decide to dry fire anyway...striker retaining pins are relatively cheap. PISTOLGEAR | YOUR ONE-STOP SHOP FOR ALL SPRINGFIELD XD
Save that link...you may need it

Thanks for the link -- bookmarked.

 

[Griffeycom]

lol, I love the conflicting information here. And I'm going to add a +1 for what I've seen more often and makes more sense. Dry Firing is OK for a modern firearm and especially an xD. So anyway, for what it's worth +1 OK Dry Fire

 

[HICKMAN]

Get some snap caps. lawrra is correct about dry fire putting excessive stress on the XD's striker retaining pin. I broke mine during a period of daily dry fire and Springfield refused to send me a replacement... they wanted me to send the slide in instead.

This man is an XD Tactical pro

 

[lawrra]

Snap caps are good for malfunction clearing practice as well. Load up a couple in your mag randomly at the range since we all know a XD doesn't FTF or FTE.

You don't need snap caps for a Glock...you'll have plenty of practice clearing malfunctions.

 

[HICKMAN]

You don't need snap caps for a Glock...you'll have plenty of practice clearing malfunctions.

Other than installing my slide release wrong, I've yet to have a single FTF/E after 1600 rounds of WWB and Blazer.

 

[Bubbajms]

I don't keep track of total rounds spent (although it's been years and lots, easily 2k) but I had exactly one failure with my Glock 17 - and it was a bad primer in a factory box of WWB. It was, in no way, the fault of the firearm, and Winchester sent me a new box in exchange for my bum round!!

I also dry-fire as part of my training, but only at the range (or for cleaning at home). I often start range day with a hundred dry-fire shots..