Hi everybody, so I have about 1100 rounds through my XDm 5.25 9mm, and just today I was beginning to have fairly regular failure to ejects. I have been practicing a drill to work on recoil anticipation where I chamber a round, take the magazine out, and fire the round, then reset the trigger and dry-fire. This really is helping my muscle memory to stop dropping the barrel making my shots break low and to the left.
Just today though, the XD started having failure to ejects on about 70% of rounds shot like this. However, it never had a FTE with a magazine in. I shot multiple 5 and 10 shot strings with a magazine inserted, probably 100 rounds total, and it never experienced a FTE. However, on the 50 or so shots I shot without a magazine in, it would FTE on about 70% of them. This would either lead to a case caught in the slide or the more rare occurrence where the shell would actually drop out of the empty magwell. I've searched online and within these forums and haven't found anyone posting a similar problem.
I know the easy answer is just to not shoot it without a magazine, but the failure itself still worries me. I was shooting Winchester 115 gr 9mm, the 100 round value pack, which is what probably 90% of the rounds fired through the pistol have been, and this is the first time I have had any problems. Also for more background info, I had installed a PRP Extreme trigger kit around 500 rounds with no other problems since installation. I removed and inspected the ejector and did not see any defects, chips, fractures, etc or anything else looking out of the ordinary within the gun internally.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated, Thanks!!
