What I’m Carrying Now: A Springfield Armory Bar-B-Que Gun

The Anti-Fancy writes . . . Texans sport beautiful hardware for their Sunday afternoon pig-in-pit shindigs. And God loves ’em for it. Where I come from, the best BBQ in town comes from backyards and open garages. Enter the anti-fancy BBQ rig: production grade, popularly priced, and almost-as-pretty-as-the-meat smoker itself. This Springfield Armory XD-M Elite … Read more

Gun Review: Springfield Armory XD-M Elite 4.5″ Tactical OSP 9mm

By David Blanton Prior to SHOT Show 2020 this year, Springfield Armory freshened up their XD-M lineup with the new XD-M Elite line. The promise of this line is full ambidextrous controls, better slide serrations, increased capacity magazines, a removable magwell, and a revamped trigger known as the META (match enhanced trigger assembly). The launch … Read more

Gun Review: Springfield XD-M 3.8 9mm

My mother has a “shit list.” You do NOT want to be on my mother’s shit list. She can make Devil’s Island seem like the Ritz Carlton. And once you’re on my mother’s shit list, you’re on it. It doesn’t matter if you suck up to her like a remora fish on a shark. There’s no coming back. I take the same approach to guns. If a firearm fails, I will never trust the gun again. It’s dead to me. Now clock the video above and imagine how I felt when the slide of my new carry gun, the Springfield XD-M, failed to lock back. The Apollo 13 astronauts were the last people to experience the same sort of sinking feeling about a mechanical malfunction. And yet . . .

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Springfield XD vs. Glock: The “Squishy Trigger” Gap?

Wayne over at The American Firearms School can shoot the eyeballs out of a newt at ninety paces. With a Glock. Any Glock. ‘Cause all Glocks have the exact same grip and trigger. Shoot one Glock, you’ve shot ’em all. The Springfield XD-M shown here is different from a Glock in many important ways. As far as Wayne’s concerned, the XD’s trigger is the Big Kahuna. He doesn’t like it. Not a bit. It’s too “squishy.” Wayne prefers the Glock’s on-off-style clean trigger break and shorter reset. Hang on; Springfield’s sales literature claims that the XD-M has “the shortest travel than any currently available polymer pistol along with a similarly short reset.” We’ve put a call into Springfield, and not about their grammar. Meanwhile, time for a test fire . . .

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Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: James Howell

Gun safety rule number one: treat every gun as if it’s loaded. Unfortunately, most gun owners—and even firearms professionals—take that to mean “always unload your gun.” That ain’t it. Treating your gun as loaded means always following rule number two: never point your weapon at something you don’t want to destroy. Like, say, your hand. To wit: “A gunsmith at a League City [Texas] gun shop lost his pinkie when a handgun mistakenly thought to be unloaded went off.” Note: the “handgun . . . went off.” Not “when the gun store employee shot himself in the hand.” Anyway, you might wonder, how’d that happen?

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