XDM Elite clarification (2024)

RandomHero said:

You can use the Glocks as targets for your new Elite's....LOL

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Haha, the glocks aren't bad, just love my xdms and want one of the new ones. The glocks will just sit in the safe gathering dust.

Grifter said:

Haha, the glocks aren't bad, just love my xdms and want one of the new ones. The glocks will just sit in the safe gathering dust.

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Yes I know. I have friends that are Glock fanatics. I think they are good guns, but I don't like them. Feels like holding a brick, but lighter...lol

djthumper said:

If you carry your Glocks you know you will have to shoot the Elites eventually. If you carry the Elites the Glocks will just sit there.

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It's usually that way when a Glock owner shoots a standard XDm...lol

^ The problem with the XDm's magazines, though, is that their structure tends to be weaker than their class-competitors'. This is a lamentations routinely heard/read.

That said, I've had excellent luck with mine - no, I'm not about to debate their objective weaknesses with my anecdotal evidence and experience, I'm just putting forward my perspective, that's all.

I have three magazines that I use exclusively for dry-fire training: two 19-rounders, plus one 13-rounder for my 3.8 Compact. I honestly have no idea how these feed anymore, as I don't load them with live rounds - but at least in terms of dry-fire cycling of snap-caps/dummies, their feed-lips seem to be OK, and their springs still strong enough to lock back the slide when I draw back on empty.

Live-fire, I have five 19-round mags that I currently use with my 3.8 Compact, along with one 13-round magazine. Similarly, there's also another set of six older 19-rounders, which, by January of 2018, were over 7 years old and had seen - as a conservative estimate - over 80,000 rounds cycled through their collective ranks:

^ I'd taken that picture to address a member's concerns at XDTalk in December of 2017. At that time, I'd only had the magazines in the bottom row - the five 19-rounders that I use when I train with my 3.8 Compact - for about two years. The difference in the condition of their followers and feed-lip consistency is readily noticeable compared against their 7+ year-old counterparts in the middle row.

To this day, those originial six magazines are still going strong - the last time they were put to "real" use was at a 3-hour "advanced applications" seminar that targeted "throttling" of the BSA template, held by a local instructor. In those three hours, I went through close to 600 rounds - that means that each of those six magazines saw about 100 rounds each, or five complete load-unload cycles. They have replacement magazine springs (Wolff) in them, but that's it (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?179626-Springfield-xdm-9mm-mags&p=2259030#post2259030 - this thread came at the time when I had then-recently experienced some mag-related issues, and I replaced the springs in those original 6 magazines at that time (https://www.m4carbine.net/showthread.php?179626-Springfield-xdm-9mm-mags&p=2259030#post2259030) .

ok having read what the op said, I just bought the new 3.8 Elite, and I have a about 6-8 mags from the elder 3.8, is there a conversion plates that I can buy, to make my elder mags hold 20 rounds?

I may sale the elder one or the mod 2 service model, I plan to send out the Elite to have it an optics cut to either galloway precision or L&M Precision GunWorks who do you guys recommend?

city country said:

ok having read what the op said, I just bought the new 3.8 Elite, and I have a about 6-8 mags from the elder 3.8, is there a conversion plates that I can buy, to make my elder mags hold 20 rounds?

I may sale the elder one or the mod 2 service model, I plan to send out the Elite to have it an optics cut to either galloway precision or L&M Precision GunWorks who do you guys recommend?

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I don’t know if Springfield is selling them, but possibly aftermarket extenders might work?

HansGruber said:

I don’t know if Springfield is selling them, but possibly aftermarket extenders might work?

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ok thanks I'll be doing more research

RandomHero said:

You can use the Glocks as targets for your new Elite's....LOL

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Says the guy with the dial 1 before 911 would do? Don't start pi$$ing in the wind with those 1.......911! For those who are new and are reading this there is much sarcasm and ribbing on this forum! Mom! DJ and Random are picking on me! Will you give them a time out?.........heheheee

Grifter said:

Can anyone confirm that if you take the extender magwell off the new xdm elites the old xdm mags will work without modification?

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my 19 round mags work just fine and the pro mag aftermarkets work also .

EL LOBO said:

my 19 round mags work just fine and the pro mag aftermarkets work also .

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Thank you for this info. Time to buy one when I can find it lol.

TEXASforLIFE said:

As far as the XDms go my 10mm had too endure over 500 rounds before the accuracy improved! My glocks were point on right out of the box!

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That's kind of odd. All my XDm's have been spot on strait out of the box. Now I had to adjust the adjustable night sights on my .45ACP 5.25. But the .40 was stellar from the start. Perhaps you just shoot Glock better? Perhaps it took 500 rounds to learn the XDm?