XD slide drops if you hit the mag?

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ok so my brothers 45acp XD compact has this thing where if you put in an extended mag with the sleeve on it and tap it hard it drops the slide

i want to know if this is normal or does it need fixing?
 
A number of my pistols over the years have done it from time to time. It doesn't hurt anything because I intended to chamber the round anyway, but I would feel better with a little more control over the action.
 
I've never had it happen to me. Granted, I'm not trying to shove the magazine as hard and tacticool as I possibly can, either
 
CZ does it, and I'm grateful.

With a reasonably firm mag insert , The top bullet in the mag lifts the slide slightly which releases the slide lock.

Lone Haranguer: You could insert the mag with the slide closed....:neener:--just kidding---honest---mostly
 
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You could insert the mag with the slide closed...
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Except for a Combat Reload I always put the slide in battery before I install a loaded magazine. I do this for training reasons:
  • With the slide in battery it requires more effort to seat the magazine because the top cartridge in the magazine comes in contact with the bottom of the slide and you must overcome magazine spring pressure to seat the magazine
  • After clearing a doublefeed the slide will be in battery, which requires more effort to seat the magazine
  • If the slide does not automatically lock open when I shoot the magazine dry, the slide will be in battery and it will require more effort to seat the magazine during a Combat Reload

If the slide automatically goes into battery when I seat the magazine during a Combat Reload I still roll & rack the slide because its faster to perform as a conditioned response than to pause to orient to the unexpected situation and make a decision about what to do next.
 
Several pistol designs will do this as a normal thing. Some of these do it better if force is applied in line with the direction of insertion, and some (Beretta 92, IIRC) if some force is also applied in a forward direction as well. I have mostly used 1911s and SIGs, which don't drop the slide when a magazine is slammed home, or at least mine have not, so it has not been a factor for me.
 
it is common on several handgun designs, if you hit it on the 90 degree it doesn't if you hit it on the 45 degree, ie up and foward it will do it on several guns.
 
Except for a Combat Reload I always put the slide in battery before I install a loaded magazine. I do this for training reasons
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Aren't you then training to close the slide first when you empty the gun?
 
All of my pistols release the slide when I insert a magazine, I want them to. Old habbit I got from the military I guess. And I don't have to slam the mag in either.
 
If you hold your gun at the proper angle when reloading it's easy to do and is a decent reloading technique.

I'm about 45 degrees up and 45 degrees left, with the gun up in my workspace (forward near just below my face easy to see weapon and threat), index mag and slam it in, when you slam the mag home kinda hit it forward as well. That forwrd know upsets the slide lock and she should slam home our her own.

Works on Glocks, Xd, M9, Mp9. Usually works best after 1000 rounds of use.
 
Aren't you then training to close the slide first when you empty the gun?
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Nope. I treat an empty gun as a stoppage. Whenever I press the trigger and the gun doesn't fire I immediately perform tap, roll & rack. It takes about a second to perform. If the gun doesn't fire again then I immediately perform a Combat Reload.
 
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