adoptedson wrote:What size XDM are you shooting? I have the 3.8" .45 and I had a helluva time at first. Same thing, I was shooting low and left. I was dry firing the pistol just fine at home, but when I'd get to the range it'd all go to shiite. The more I've practiced though, I have been able to correct. I was somewhat pulling the trigger.
I have kinda bigger hands. And on the smaller xdm, my trigger finger has to come way back to break the trigger. It doesn't help that the stock xdm trigger breaks further towards the rear of the pistol. Because of this I realized that my strong hand grip fingers were moving and pulling the pistol down and left slightly by the time the trigger was breaking. I've really had to work to shoot straight with this gun. I'm still not perfect with it, but I have improved.
Also, on the flush fitting magazine, I've put a pierce extension grip(bought from thunderjohn:)). That helped me some too. I was more comfortable with a place for my pinky. Not sure which xdm you have though.
I'm also hoping to put the PRP trigger kits in both my Xdm's eventually. I've read nothing but great things about them on xdtalk.
I have the XDm 4.5" and bigger hands as well. So that is something for me to look into, thank you for the tip. If the XDm is a harder-than-normal-learning-curve gun to shoot, I consider that a good thing because it will force me to become a better shooter. I may have to adapt specifically for the weapon, and I'm ok with that. I want to be able to shoot anything and everything accurately. I like the hard road. I like being adaptive. I don't want to be someone who can only shoot well with X, Y, or Z weapon(s).
Get a dummy round or two and have someone load your mag and mix the dummy rds in with the live rds. (no peeking!) While shooting, when you come to the dummy rd, you'll react as if the gun will go "bang" instead of "click" and you'll see exactly what, if anything, that you're doing with that gun.
