Springfield XD

**IH8EVRY1** · 08-30-2010, 03:33 PM

I'm probably close to 15,000 combined in my 2 and never has one of them failed to go boom when it was supposed to. I'd buy another anytime the opportunity arose.

**bluehawk2000** · 08-30-2010, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Zinergy

This guy did a torture test. He said 20,000 rounds doesnt tell much about reliability and durability. So they shot 10,000 rounds cleaned the gun, then 7,500 more rounds and cleaned the gun then did glocks 6 tests. 0 Malfunctions

http://springfield-armory.primediaou.../SPstory11.php

Well it was the 20,000 round torture test, with throwing it down a 100 foot drop off from a mountain buried it in mud and froze it solid, and it still fired perfectly good but this was on the xd based not the xdm so this was a old write up!!

**bluehawk2000** · 08-30-2010, 06:51 PM

Originally Posted by IH8EVRY1

I'm probably close to 15,000 combined in my 2 and never has one of them failed to go boom when it was supposed to. I'd buy another anytime the opportunity arose.

I have actually only put 108 rounds threw my xdm lol.

**IH8EVRY1** · 08-30-2010, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by bluehawk2000

I have actually only put 108 rounds threw my xdm lol.

Time will fix that!

I know this is a Springfield thread but I saw something earlier about the Glock tests. When I went through the police academy, my department had a weapon that stayed at our training division and was fired by instructors during every academy class. It had been through over 10 years of shooting without being cleaned. It too, never has had a FTF that was a weapon malfunction. All of them firing pin strikes on the primer. It's the price you pay when you use re-loads for training. You get a bad round every now and again but I was pretty impressed. I'd like to try the same thing with a Springfield just to see but something in my being wont let me do that to one of my weapons.

**bluehawk2000** · 08-31-2010, 01:18 PM

Originally Posted by IH8EVRY1

Time will fix that!

I know this is a Springfield thread but I saw something earlier about the Glock tests. When I went through the police academy, my department had a weapon that stayed at our training division and was fired by instructors during every academy class. It had been through over 10 years of shooting without being cleaned. It too, never has had a FTF that was a weapon malfunction. All of them firing pin strikes on the primer. It's the price you pay when you use re-loads for training. You get a bad round every now and again but I was pretty impressed. I'd like to try the same thing with a Springfield just to see but something in my being wont let me do that to one of my weapons.

I couldnt do that to any weapon I own, I stick by an old saying "You take care of your weapon, it will take care of you". Just like a car.