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Can I still get an XD .45ACP with 13+1 capacity?

My EDC was an XD .45ACP for 10 years until ... well, let me explain, I lived in the Arizona desert for years and then moved to the midwest. I never really changed my gun cleaning routine and have now realized that my resistance to change has cost me my favorite pistol. I've always been very thorough about cleaning and lubricating every time I used it but here in St. Louis where the humidity rarely if ever gets below 40% I should have been cleaning and lubing much much more frequently, it became rusted and pitted in just a few years. The reason I'm asking to replace the 13+1 is that I have several magazines for it, sooo .... am I just gonna have to suck it up and toss my mags and get the "state compliant" gun?
 
I was not aware Missouri had magazine capacity limits.

Never heard of anyone letting thier firearm become so rusty and pitted it actually wrecked the firearm either. Was it like just sitting somewhere out of sight and mind?
 
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My EDC was an XD .45ACP for 10 years until ... well, let me explain, I lived in the Arizona desert for years and then moved to the midwest. I never really changed my gun cleaning routine and have now realized that my resistance to change has cost me my favorite pistol. I've always been very thorough about cleaning and lubricating every time I used it but here in St. Louis where the humidity rarely if ever gets below 40% I should have been cleaning and lubing much much more frequently, it became rusted and pitted in just a few years. The reason I'm asking to replace the 13+1 is that I have several magazines for it, sooo .... am I just gonna have to suck it up and toss my mags and get the "state compliant" gun?
The 10rd XD45 can use the 13 rd magazines…so buy one if you have to, and use your 13rd instead.
 
Excuse my ignorance, I embarrassed myself, I was looking at the Springfield site and everything is 10 rounds. I just thought they changed the capacity.
Call it live and learn, I was in the habit of cleaning it after I used it. In east Mesa, AZ I was only 20 minutes from open desert and I would go plinkin' whenever I wanted. Here, I have to rent a lane or buy a membership so I only went to the range when I had the time and the money. It wasn't outta sight or mind either, I carried it everyday, I didn't keep it lubed enough and humidity caused pitting on the barrel ... that's what the gunsmith said
 
I've always been very thorough about cleaning and lubricating every time I used it but here in St. Louis where the humidity rarely if ever gets below 40% I should have been cleaning and lubing much much more frequently, it became rusted and pitted in just a few years.
Sometimes our best efforts come back to haunt us. My father gifted me with his WWII era Colt M1911A1 that he brought back from Korea. At the time I was living in Panama so I purchased a cheap plastic pistol gun case with a foam insert for it as I knew it was probably not gonna get used much as it is an heirloom. It sat in my gun safe for a little over a year, (out of sight, out of mind) before I shipped my stuff to go back to the US. I checked it over and to my horror I found that the foam was like a sponge and during the rainy season when the humidity was at 100% for a few hours after its daily rain it was sucking the moisture out of the air into the foam. There was a thin coating of rust on it with light pitting. Since that time, I have oiled it and now keep it wrapped in an oil rag. Completely had it gone over by a gunsmith and internally it is fine.
 
SA is only offering the XD in "state compliant" models to continue to sell in CA. Not sure why the don't offer standard capacity models anymore. Too many different skew numbers I guess. Even SA says to just buy the limited capacity model and then spend more money to buy standard capacity mags to go with it. Hmm, spend more money, go figure.
 
SA is only offering the XD in "state compliant" models to continue to sell in CA. Not sure why the don't offer standard capacity models anymore. Too many different skew numbers I guess. Even SA says to just buy the limited capacity model and then spend more money to buy standard capacity mags to go with it. Hmm, spend more money, go figure.


XD mags sell for roughly $12.00 from a few different online retailers which is a great deal considering the cost for some mags. Joe Bob's Outfitter's & GunMag Warehouse usually has these in stock around that price. I personally buy multiple mags for each firearm anyway and at that cost I'd have at least a dozen mags for that pistol.

Here's a link to Joe Bob's Outfitter's.

 
XD mags sell for roughly $12.00 from a few different online retailers which is a great deal considering the cost for some mags. Joe Bob's Outfitter's & GunMag Warehouse usually has these in stock around that price. I personally buy multiple mags for each firearm anyway and at that cost I'd have at least a dozen mags for that pistol.

Here's a link to Joe Bob's Outfitter's.


XD9 mags have been dirt cheap for the past year, anywhere from $9.99 to $14.99.

XD45 mags on the other hand tend to be $20 each, or more as Joe Bob's has them listed at $29 currently.

I'd buy a dozen XD45 mags if they were under $15.
 
XD9 mags have been dirt cheap for the past year, anywhere from $9.99 to $14.99.

XD45 mags on the other hand tend to be $20 each, or more as Joe Bob's has them listed at $29 currently.

I'd buy a dozen XD45 mags if they were under $15.
Still not a bad price for a factory mag considering the price for CZ and HK mags which can be close to $70 per mag depending on the pistol.
 
I live in St. Louis. Always have. Never had a problem with guns rusting excessively. I do clean and lube them regularly, but I have a few guns I haven't really touched in years and years and they're fine. I suspect you have a moisture issue in your house or something possibly. I really can't imagine a gun, in other than extremely unordinary conditions, rusting so bad it can't be fixed.
 
I live in St. Louis. Always have. Never had a problem with guns rusting excessively. I do clean and lube them regularly, but I have a few guns I haven't really touched in years and years and they're fine. I suspect you have a moisture issue in your house or something possibly. I really can't imagine a gun, in other than extremely unordinary conditions, rusting so bad it can't be fixed.
A known issue with the early XD’s was a susceptibility to rust..it’s possible this was one of those guns.
 
A known issue with the early XD’s was a susceptibility to rust..it’s possible this was one of those guns.
I'd say probable, because there is nothing about St. Louis that rots guns from humidity. We have humid summers, but there a plenty of places way more humid than here. I have piles of guitars and guns and other stuff that's succeptible to rust. I live very literally right on a river and I don't have issues with anything rusting.
 
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