Umm, the XD wasn't a choice.....
A jam is only caused by one of 3 things wrong: Dirty weapon (your fault), very bad ammo (again, your fault), and mechanical malfunction of the weapon (may or may not be your fault). I'd venture to say that I've shot, in my lifetime which is ancient compared to most of you
, hundreds of thousands of rounds in so many different weapons that I couldn't even begin to count. I've NEVER had a "jam" that couldn't be cleared in a matter of seconds. True, if the chips are down, you want zero jams, but if even mediocre weapons are not prone to jamming IF you recognize the weapon's weakness. For example, I have a POS little .25 that my wife wanted because it had PINK grips
. It can't feed a HP to save it's life. So guess what? I only shoot FMJ out of it. Never jams on those. It's a POS gun that I'd NEVER carry for self-defense, so it doesn't matter to me. Point is that I've shot, found it's weakness, and worked around it. There are very simple things that can be done to most semi-automatics to help them feed more reliably and avoid the dreaded ammo sensitive situation. Besides, you can usually clear a jam by racking the slide back hard and raking a new round in. The only exception is if the gun is having mechanical malfunction, such as bad ejectors or double feed.
Anyway, that's my
. Get the Glock and you'll be perfectly fine.
Originally Posted by Jaimecbr900
Umm, the XD wasn't a choice.....
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I also used to compete, rather heavily, in both USPSA and Pin shooting competitions. I used to have a pretty cool setup for reloading all my own stuff just for those competitions. I competed in both rimfire and big bore competitions. I still have my rimfire "race gun" (not really a race gun though), which is just a Browning Buckmark 5.5 with a Red Dot and a little trigger and ramp work to speed it up. 
