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Receiver Wear

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Is this type of wear on the receiver slide normal for the XD9? Maybe, 1,200 rounds, tops.
 

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wish i could help you, i am not familiar with that gun. but maybe if a drop of oil under there would help with the friction.?
 
You mean on the rear rail, between it and the frame?

That looks a bit weird to me. I'd contact SA Customer Service and forward the pictures.
 
^ I respectfully disagree, @Annihilator .

I literally just broke open all three of my higher-mileage XDms, and I am not seeing wear like how the OP's gun looks.

While I do see some scuffing, none of the polymer rail sections or the frame of the weapon seem to be as deeply scuffed as the OPs, and for-certain, none show the irregular wear that's made the OPs right rear rail seemingly no longer a true/level surface...unless this latter is an optical illusion due to the photograph?
 
TSiWRX said:
^ I respectfully disagree, @Annihilator .

I literally just broke open all three of my higher-mileage XDms, and I am not seeing wear like how the OP's gun looks.

While I do see some scuffing, none of the polymer rail sections or the frame of the weapon seem to be as deeply scuffed as the OPs, and for-certain, none show the irregular wear that's made the OPs right rear rail seemingly no longer a true/level surface...unless this latter is an optical illusion due to the photograph?
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now that you mention it, i do see sorta a "waviness" to that upper rail.

something is forcing the slide to go up as it goes backwards..??

could it be a bad front railing system..??

maybe a bad molded/injected frame..??????
 
here is why i say a bad mold/injected frame...

this is a picture of my Glock 17 Gen 4 frame..

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if you look you will see the frame "bent in??" at the trigger bar. this was causing a heavier trigger pull. now, i could have sent it back to Glock, but i took it apart, and filed down the "nubs" inside the frame where that trigger bar rides up against.

once i did that, the trigger bar glides easily in that frame

my "best guess" is that when the gun was released from the mold? it maybe landed on another frame, while still warm, and cause it to cool with that "bend"..????
 
Old_Me said:
now that you mention it, i do see sorta a "waviness" to that upper rail.

something is forcing the slide to go up as it goes backwards..??

could it be a bad front railing system..??

maybe a bad molded/injected frame..??????
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That was going to be my next thing, was or is the frame actually true? I have seen this similar wear on XD's in .40 cal. I do think though it's a self limiting issue, meaning after so long it won't do it anymore, but wouldn't hurt to get ahold of customer service and see what they have to say.
 
maybe if the o/p calls CS, they may want the gun back. heck, they may even switch out to a new frame for him..

winning solution for him.
 
TSiWRX said:
^ Yeah, to both - it's really hard to say....like it's really hard to also say that it's not just some kind of photographic artifact....

Like if you looked at some of my latest posts in the 35-rounder thread (https://www.thearmorylife.com/forum/threads/xdm-9mm-35-rd-mag-initial-report.10081/), you'd swear that some of my rear rails/block isn't true, either, but on physical examination, they're literally fine as can be....
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I see what your talking about in this pic you posted….. I mean these frames do come out of a mold and who actually knows if there really true
 
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I see what your talking about in this pic you posted….. I mean these frames do come out of a mold and who actually knows if there really true
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Yup.

It's weird - those picture, I think because of the fact that I did not use a tripod to stabilize and thus induced a lot of artifacts with the lack of focus and lighting, seem to suggest that those parts are not true...but I absolutely guaranty that in-person, they are.

So I truly wasn't sure if the OP's pictures showed damage, or if it was just a matter of photographic artifacts.

If there's truly those deeper gouges and if the rear rail is bent, I really do think that deserves at least a look-see by the technical team at the mothership.
 
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