Good advice on a 1911 style, and excellent advice about making sure it's unloaded when practicing.The Wall wrote:Might want to be careful not to press the grip safety while doing it. If you try anything just make sure you do it unloaded.
However, on a full-size Springfield XD, you cannot rack the slide without the grip safety being pressed. Not so on the XDs, it racks without the grip safety. I don't own an XDm, and I've only fired one during one session a couple of years back, and don't remember about that one.