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Blew Up an XDM40 Today
SemperFiGuy:
Well worth considering, Gary.
Good thought.
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Gary:
I can just hear folks from an earlier time reading this thread with all the cautionary notes having a real chuckle. They might call us an unkind feminine name, and laugh saying, when was the last time I used all ten fingers all at the same time anyway, as they rocked in their rocking chairs whittling away on a piece of pine, on the porch of a log cabin they built by hand by a river.
I tend to think safety first, but our nation was built with a spirit of get er done. Vast projects where men paid the price of lives and limbs.
I tell my students no reloads in class, the classes I take usualy tell me the same thing. In years past, I thought nothing of buying reloads at a garage sale, or gun show.
Times have changed, and they have changed us as a nation. Could we build a Hover Dam or Panama Canal today? Will our grandkids be able to build such structures and pay the price for such feats of architecture?
Seatbelts, child seats, no smoking and no child left behind that cant balance a checkbook.
We have gone from 15 round boxing matches where both men almost kill one another to WWE matches where winners are picked months in advance and the audience knows it, and does not care.
I grew up across the street from Katelman Foundry. A hard industry run by hard men. Long hard days, and if they did not have sun dried leather skin, they had cooked leather skin from pouring molten steel.
The foundry is gone now, along with hundreds of jobs and a good way of life. Times have changed, but I miss the old days where boys were boys and girls were girls and maybe a girl had a purple dress, but she darn sure did not have purple hair.
I would like to say, bring a bucket of ammo over and we will have a good time, but I reckon the foundry is gone in most all of us.
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SemperFiGuy:
--- Quote ---Are there stronger guns than the one that grande-ed? Say a single shot contender?
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Cat's Curiosity (rather than search for possible purchase) got working on me and had to check it out.
Found that Thompson's website doesn't show pistol barrels for either G, G2, or Encore configurations in .40S&W caliber.
Didn't check the web for aftermarket Thompson Contender pistol barrels in .40S&W nor for any kind of rifle barrels (seeing no real point in a .40S&W single shot rifle).
FYI
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newfalguy101:
I seem to recall reading at one time that T/C did offer .40 S&W barrels, however, finding one might prove nigh on immpossible
SemperFiGuy:
Getting Close to the End of This Story:
XDM40 came back from Springfield Armory by FEDEX man today.
Turnaround on this handgun was very fast. Maybe about a week, not counting the days that SA was shut down for pre-Labor Day activities. But including two days there and two days back. They worked on it and completed the work the very day they received it.
Handgun came back w/indications that it had been test fired: (a) dirty bore and (b) invoice marked Function: Good.
To this layman's untrained eye, handgun looks pretty much OK all over. Woulda never thunkit after what happened to it.
Now it needs to go to the range. But...today is booked and tomorrow is dove hunting. (Might take it and fire it out in the dove boonies. We'll see.)
Coupla Nice Small Things:
1) SA included a used plastic pistol case in the return shipment that I did not send to them.
2) The original KA-BOOM loosened the rear sight on the XDM. Came off in my hand. Didn't have an Allen wrench of the right size in the XD Gear. However, the tiny Allen wrench for my LaserGuard fit exactly and worked just fine to tighten up the rear sight.
Sometimes, things go right.
After I shoot the handgun, one more post and then we can drop this one.
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