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I agree. Trigger finger is primary but mechanical safeties help as long as we don't use them as an excuse to get sloppy with trigger finger discipline.G.A. Heath wrote:Now your post makes sense to me. My point is that with the XD, the practice of placing ones thumb on the rear of the slide provides an added measure of safety.
The proper reply to that is "Apparently the one between your ears isn't."FNguy wrote:"But the safety is on."
Thumb on back of slide during reholstering also helps ensure readiness.G.A. Heath wrote:Now your post makes sense to me. My point is that with the XD, the practice of placing ones thumb on the rear of the slide provides an added measure of safety.FNguy wrote:I was trying to make two points.G.A. Heath wrote:I don't quite track the point your trying to make. The thumb should never be used to keep a firearm in battery, unless you want a broken thumb. The point of placing the thumb on the rear of the slide on an XD/XDm type firearm is that it keeps the user from engaging the grip safety giving the user an added measure of safety while holstering the firearm. This will keep foreign objects like shirt tails, holster components, ect. from discharging the weapon if the user doesn't notice them should they get inside the trigger guard while holstering.FNguy wrote:The thumb helps keep the gun in battery and ready to fire. The most important is keeping your finger off the trigger unless you want to shoot. That works for XD, FN, revolvers, rifles, shotguns and detonators.
First.
Long before the XD had markings in English, people were putting their thumb on the back of semiauto slides when holstering to stop the slide from moving backwards in relation to the frame. ie keep the gun in battery.
Second.
The most important hand position is keeping your finger off the trigger unless you want to shoot. That works for all kinds of guns, including XD.
The thing that would have prevented my Cop buddy from shooting a hole through his nightstand and wall while putting his glock in the drawer and the trigger caught on something.....gigag04 wrote:What's a grip safety?
-Glock Shooter
(JK - I have plenty of 1911s)
They told me the same thing when I sent my wife's XD9 in with a broken extractor. Actual turnaround time was closer to three days.lunchbox wrote:WOW. You guys were right. I didn't wait on hold and talked to a real person. They said its going take about 3 weeks.
i got mine used it was a non issue they never asked or anything of that natureWysiwyg101 wrote:If I were to buy a used SA, say from a pawn shop or an individual, will SA still honor the lifetime warranty?