Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. Springfield’s New The “m” Is For more Clint & Heidi Smith ( ) XD(M)s are assembled with the slide, barrel and frame all bearing the same serial number. ’m a staunch defender of the concept of not fixing things that are not broken. Often when we get a good product, the company staff or some marketing guy comes up with the bright idea to change something and in my opinion most often the change isn’t all that good of an idea. It is a different Here’s the test XD(M) .40 in full recoil — very manageable. idea, but it isn’t always better. Clint liked these guns a great deal. Like all things in life there are exceptions. During the era of the American muscle car Chevrolet no problems and not so much as a hiccup during the whole made the Chevelle, and it was a pretty cool car but then they process. When the Springfield Armory people decided to add a made a change to the Chevelle to include the 454 Super Sport version of the pistol with a thumb safety to the existing product version. When that change was made the Chevelle SS a.k.a. line — in all candor it didn’t do anything for me. But in fairness Super Sport was really a very special car, or at least it was in it does for Springfield Armory, allowing them to address a segthat time of when a gallon of gas was thirty-two cents. ment of the market place wanting a safety. I The XD I like the Springfield XD and have been a strong supporter of the pistol since it’s .45-caliber 5" barrel introduction. I’ve shot thousands of rounds through the three XDs I own with 42 A Change? I’m generally not excited about “new” pistols because most of the time they are not really new and they often don’t really work. I especially don’t like little pistols because they almost WWW.AMERICANCOPMAGAZINE.COM • JULY/AUGUST 2009