Anyone Own a XD .40 Pistol

I'm currently the owner of a snub 357, 44 Magnum, .22lr revolver, and Ruger P90 .45 ACP and former owner of a 9mm.

Cousin of mine finally been here long enough in Florida to be able to buy a gun and she had enjoyed shooting my Arcus 94C 9mm enough she had developed an affinity for Brownings so I let her have the it for a couple hundred so I could knock it out of inventory. I'm in the mood to own only four handguns right now given they are all in lockboxes secured in a locked closet rather than a nice large safe. Soon enough I'll be rid of my .22lr (it's a heritage rough rider a friend gave me rather than give me back the sixty bucks he owed me).

I'm looking at the XD .40 (subcompact, 4", or 5"). I carry my .45 as my second and my snubby as primary in my pocket and don't by any means feel undergunned when I just have the snubby (yes I actually load .357 and practice twice a week, a hundred rounds a practice) but the high capacity bug has bit me, call it crazy, call it paranoid but I feel if I'm ever forced to trade lead with an attacker in some crazy out of the blue situation, 13 rounds won't do. Admittedly my anxiety is a mix of Combat Handgunner and the article dealing with folks having too few rounds, and the whole mall shootings craziness in Salt Lake (he only had eight rounds and he ran dry and was just lucky enough for back up to arrive in time), I know it's odd but there's also the beneift of being able to convert the gun to fire 9mm and Sig .357 so I'll get the benefit of a multi-caliber gun.

Plus I understand the XD .40 is stout and rugged enough to handle Double Tap and Black Hills in small healthy doses and these would be the rounds I'd want to carry and practice with. I like the concealability of the subcompact but not the potential loss of potency in the short barrel so I'm looking to either the 4" or 5" in chief here. So if anyone owns one, and if they have used the conversion barrells it'd be appreaciatted, thanks.

I appreciate all the feed back, there's a range not far from me that rents them for ten bucks a visit, the only downside is that they limit you to one shot one second, how am I supposed to test performance like that.

The Glock prices right near me as far as used goes is quite competitive in the 10mm department but...I'm not living somewhere (renting) that will let me reload out of respect for the owner so an XD .40 is the first on my list and later after I'm out of law school I'll pick up a Glock 20 and Glock 29, it's only two years away. I've just got poker winnings from the casino burning a hole in my pocket, I've got my break between summer classes burning a hole from painting, carpeting, landscaping, and pet sitting (800-1000 a week and a fifty to sixty hour work week). I'll be making my purchase in August if I pull an A in one class and a B in another, believe it or not but being able to purchase a gun has been an excellent motivator for good grades, lol, 3.3 for first year.