Received my brand new XDM 5.25 from Fed Ex on Friday. Just got back from the XDM 5.25 Range Day Reveal and Demo at Rio Salado Sportsman’s Club, and I’m pumped. What a blast sharing this great, new pistol and watching old friends and new give it a try!
Now it’s time for you “guys” to get to work on my new gun. Scott Springer, Daniel Batchelor, Rich Dettelhouser and anyone else in the biz, here is the challenge:
- Drop in parts only
- Total reliability with standard primers
- Lightened trigger pull
- No stoning or tuning allowed, only bending springs
- Reliability again – it’s got to work all the time, even whilst totally ignoring a sane cleaning and maintenance schedule. Not fair but that’s the last request!
I know where we can get with tweaking and tuning and black magic, but there is a legit market out there for someone who will only want to do parts swapping. Also you must include the prices of the pieces used, and no prototypes, unless you’re gonna make them available to us all.
I’m guessing springs only will get us around five pound triggers, with parts changing maybe about four pounds.
Trigger pull feel needs to be a factor also, to include takeup, reset distance, over travel and actual sear release. The next test will be which, if any of these changes help a person shoot better.
I think we can find out what the best bang for the buck mods are. I’ll be glad to do the testing and comparison to stock, and I will try to measure an average of all these things on the four unmodified 5.25′s I have here before I send them back to the Custom Shop. Let the games begin!
Interesting note – At the demo on Saturday I had 15 of my Action Target steel plates and silhouettes lined up next to each other at 10 yards (that’s 30 feet on Top Shot), and this was the “game”:
Gun loaded on table, hands on table not touching gun, on buzzer, grab gun and HIT all 15 targets. One of them, btw, was a tiny 5 inch disk that swings back and forth behind the head of an ABC zone silhouette.
Now, here’s the interesting part … My best run was NOT with my 3 lb. customized trigger XDM! It was with the totally stock XDM BiTone 5.25 pistol, shooting GI ball 124-grain 9 mm ammo. Total time: 5.67 seconds. Made me go “hmm” too.
Rob