A unique advantage to the XD-S in its market niche is that it has standoff capability.
This is a potentially life-saving advantage of the short barrel XD series (and the Hellcat as well).
Accuracy
Pocket-size pistols like this are often tested only from seven or ten yards for accuracy.
Does Mas like the XD-S Mod.2 from Springfield Armory? What do those hits on target tell you?
People think thats all theyre good for accuracy-wise.
Or you may hear, If hes more than seven yards distant, Ill just run away.
Good luck outrunning bullets.
The prognathous recoil spring guide gives standoff capability, making this a gun that will work with a press-contact shot.
Bad guys not only get a vote, they get to move first.
I shot my XD-s Mod.2 in .45 from a Matrix rest on a concrete bench at the 25-yard line.
full metal jacket drilled five holes 1.90 apart, with the best three in only 1.15.
The pistol’s excellent U-notch rear sight was easy to pick and get on target.
A popular old school .45 ACP load is the 200-gr.
lead semi-wadcutter, typified by the Hensley & Gibbs #68.
Now, accuracy means two things: grouping, and whether the bullets hit where aimed.
With the included long magazine in place, there’s a full grasp as you would have with a service pistol.
The FMJ round won on the first count, but the LSWC won on the second.
The hardball shot about eleven oclock from point of aim, but the lead bullets hit more to center.
average from the toe (bottom tip) of the trigger.
Mas decided to push the little XD-S out to 25 yards during the testing.
In terms of feel, theres a light take-up and then a smooth roll to a surprise break.
Because it was the first one Id seen in the wild, I kept an eye on it.
Sub-two-inch groups at 25 yards?
Springfield XD-S Mod.2 with American Eagle hardball, from the bench at 25 yards.
From a 3.3 barrel pistol the same weight as an old snub-nose .38 Special, but with more bullets?
Worthy of consideration, methinks.
The Springfield XD-S also shot quite well with the Black Hills 200-gr. LSWC at 25 yards.
Ex-SWAT cop Steve Denney found the little Springfield XD-S .45 controllable at height of full power hardball recoil.
Mas really wrung the little XD-S Mod.2 out on the range during his testing.
