I am building a system that hopefully, if Iām lucky, never has to be relied upon to protect my family, but if it does, I want it to WORK. It is meant to be a home self defense pistol to be handled by myself or my two boys. My wife has access to and is more comfortable with a Glock 43.
- The Optic is a Trijicon RMR v2 6.5 MOA
- The firearm is a XD-M Elite OSP Tactical 9mm
- The adapter plate is a #3 which fits the RMR line and Holosun - Part Number: XD5073
The RMR is an awesome, quality optic and one that I spent a good bit of time reviewing along with the Hex Series and Holosun a bit too. A chunk of change was spent as well. My local gun shop is a good one that doesnāt believe in scalping so I support them when I can, so it was purchased from them for an extremely fair price. It was not purchased from Springfield Armory.
Similarly the XD-M Elite OSP Tactical 9mm is an awesome gun. It has surpassed my expectations with almost every aspect and my Glock handguns are getting less love these days. I have read tons of reviews and watched tons of videos and a great deal of them feature an RMR on top (which to my understanding all have the same footprint excluding the narrower RMRcc).
The plate, is what it is, and seems to be fine for intended purpose: hold optic to firearm and not lose zero. Iām actually impressed at the speed in which the plate arrived. They said āplease allow 4 to 6 weeks for deliveryā¦ā but it came within a week. Surpassed my expectations there too.
Iām not trying to do something crazy. Iām trying to mount what some would consider a de facto standard red dot, onto what some would consider (if youāre here on this board because an XD-M Elite Series pistol like me) to be their next staple line of firearms.
Springfield Armory decided not to ship with plates, Iām fine with that, saves them money and some people will not put a plate or a dot on their OSP firearm.
The firearm comes with a card with a sentence or two on how to mount an optic. The website comes with none (that I could find anyways). The package comes with the plate and a packing slip. A great & fantastic & maybe even a PROPER place, IMVHO, to put some information about screw length, or where to get the 19$ Trijicon screws, or since it shows only 4 optics, a total of 8 pairs of screws might have been able to ride along with the plate?
Am I being a whiny baby about this thinking that I deserve information at the very least, when everything else has surpassed my expectations? I donāt think so. Reddit and many other boards contain topics matching my experience. (āXD-M OSP screw lengthā search will show you) I would have been a bit bummed, but even a little blurb along with the plate that said, grind your screws down, contact your optic mfg, screw size with thread pitch isā¦ Would be something. You know?
I will do a little bit more research and then I guess Iām off to get the screws from Trijicon and cross my fingers.
Be safe and have a good one everybody!
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No, we will not be doing that.
