Refinishing my XDM 45

[heavydoc]

While I'm waiting on parts to arrive for my wife's AR I decided to clean my truck gun. I've never been happy with it which is why it sits in the truck. Got most of the 4 years worth of dirt off of it and have decided to completely strip it down and try to refinish it. Thinkin about maybe glass bead cleaning or maybe some fine sand paper. Also gonna try my hand at stippleing it. Then if it all turns out I will look at why it stovepipe after 20 or so rounds.

Thoughts, advice, or you just wanna see how bad I will screw this up 🤣

 

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Got the frame all disassembled

 

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Just ordered these grips. Hopefully they will feel better

 

[crazysarge16]

I like those grips

 

[heavydoc]

I like those grips

They arrived yesterday gonna try to get them installed tomorrow. Maybe fill the slide etching with some paint. Still debating on a trigger job

 

[Tim]

Just ordered these grips. Hopefully they will feel betterView attachment 358913View attachment 358914

I had those grips. Lasted for 3 or 4 3-gun seasons.

 

[Tim]

They arrived yesterday gonna try to get them installed tomorrow. Maybe fill the slide etching with some paint. Still debating on a trigger job

Powder River Precision trigger on my 7-8 year old 5.25” XD(m) made a HUGE improvement. The 4.5” OSP model I got a few months ago doesn’t need a trigger job.

 

[heavydoc]

Powder River Precision trigger on my 7-8 year old 5.25” XD(m) made a HUGE improvement. The 4.5” OSP model I got a few months ago doesn’t need a trigger job.

Did you get the competition trigger or just the springs?

 

[heavydoc]

I had those grips. Lasted for 3 or 4 3-gun seasons.

We're they difficult to remove, did you replace them with something else?

 

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Filling in the etching is coming along nicely

 

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This is turning out better than I thought

 

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And the slide is done. Thinkin about adding dome color to the grips on the slide too

 

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[Tim]

We're they difficult to remove, did you replace them with something else?

After several years, They eventually just wore off enough that I took them off. I used Goo Gone on the residue. I thought were a great addition.

 

[heavydoc]

looks and feels pretty good. Expected the laser cutting to have a better fit, but it ain't to bad.

 

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Now to start the frame assembly 🤬

 

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Wow is the magazine release spring aggravating

 

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Well the mag release spring has nothing on the sear assembly 🤬

 

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Well time to go shoot itit function checks fine soo...🤞🤞

 

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Well the 10th round did thishelp, how do I fix this issue, what could.be causing this?

 

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Could the ridge on the feed ramp be causing this?

 

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Pretty good variation on the old rounds
Versus the new I just bought

 

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Just went 39 rapid fires with 39 perfect cycles. Pretty sure I got some bad loads. Also pretty sure I bought them when I bought the pistol. They were gun store reloads in a bag of 500. Lesson learned. Now to break apart the bad loads and load them right with I'm thinkin W231 or A No5.

 

[crazysarge16]

Looks great, glad you got it all figured out

 

[heavydoc]

For those that are curious 3.5 grains powder ain't good for nothing. This was the first one I pulled apart