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XD Safety?

7.62x397.62x39 Member Posts: 1,994 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 2007 in Ask the Experts
Does a XD have a manual saftey or a "safe action like a Glock"
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  • goldeneagle76goldeneagle76 Member Posts: 4,359
    edited November -1
    All it has is the grip safety and trigger safety (like Glock). No manual safeties.
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  • schintzieschintzie Member Posts: 129 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello 7.62x39,

    It is very similar to the Glock, with the addition of the backstrap safety.
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  • Wehrmacht_45Wehrmacht_45 Member Posts: 3,377
    edited November -1
    The XD is also 100% cocked when you pull the trigger, the glock is about 80% from what I have read. Plus the triggers do feel different with teh Glock being the nicer one in my opinion.
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  • WWSmithWWSmith Member Posts: 29 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote: Plus the triggers do feel different with teh Glock being the nicer one in my opinion.

    Interesting..the XD feels better to me; the Glock is a bit "spongy" (due, perhaps, to the plastic trigger having more "give"), than the XD's trigger.
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  • knightriderknightrider Member Posts: 450 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd take a XD over a Glock for the one reason that it has two safety systems instead of one. As it has been pointed out the XD has the triger and an grip safty, the Glock just has the triger.
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  • Wehrmacht_45Wehrmacht_45 Member Posts: 3,377
    edited November -1
    thats why I went for a Steyr. It had a manual safety, but not a grip safety which annoys me.
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  • Spider7115Spider7115 Member Posts: 29,704 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Wehrmacht_45
    thats why I went for a Steyr. It had a manual safety, but not a grip safety which annoys me.

    The 1911 has had a grip safety for nearly 100 years. I have two XD's and don't mind the grip safety at all. You have to hold the gun in your hand to fire it anyway so you don't even notice the grip safety.
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  • abcguns2abcguns2 Member Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello, Yes the XD has a 'grip safety' , and , Knightrider , for your info the Glock has three (3) safetys , all built-in , trigger,drop,&firing pin ...
    Thanks !!!
    d.a.stearns
    Gunsmith / LEO
    Niota , Tn
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  • Wehrmacht_45Wehrmacht_45 Member Posts: 3,377
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Spider7115
    quote:Originally posted by Wehrmacht_45
    thats why I went for a Steyr. It had a manual safety, but not a grip safety which annoys me.

    The 1911 has had a grip safety for nearly 100 years. I have two XD's and don't mind the grip safety at all. You have to hold the gun in your hand to fire it anyway so you don't even notice the grip safety.




    And I dont like 1911's either. John Browning himself did not want one, but the Army demanded it. Fora 45acp I would have a Baby Eagle, S&W 4506, or a Sig 220
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  • knightriderknightrider Member Posts: 450 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by abcguns2
    Knightrider , for your info the Glock has three (3) safetys , all built-in , trigger,drop,&firing pin ...

    OK, this is true but I still don't trust what I can't see or interact with, also I like the fact that the XD won't or should not go off if the trigger is pulled but the grip safety is not active. I like 1911s so naturally I like the XD grip safety. Also thanks for finding a mistake what I said. One learns from mistakes.
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