Black Springfield Armory XD Mod.2

Springfield Armory XD MOD.2 9mm

Springfield’s XD Mod.2 is now available in a 4″ full-size Service Model.

A slim and ergonomic pistol, the 4″ Service Model packs even more amazing capacity, and is ready for duty, a day at the range and even for every day concealed carry.

Featuring high visibility low-profile sights with a slim-contour frame, the XD Mod.2 Service Model is a full sized, feature packed, double-stack pistol.

At just two-tenths of an inch wider than the industries slimmest single stack polymer frame pistol, the Mod.2 offers 13+1 rounds of 45 ACP.

The XD Mod.2 Service Model has multiple safety features – a striker status indicator, loaded chamber indicator, grip-safety, internal firing pin block, and the Ultra Safety Assurance Action Trigger System, all of which work together to make the XD Mod.2 Service Model a safe and easy pistol to use.

The GripZone ergonomics set the XD Mod.2 apart from all others, optimized contact between the hand and the frame of the pistol work to keep the pistol on target round after round.

Shooting the XD MOD.2 Service Model

As with most pistols, I found both good and bad while shooting the MOD.2. The first thing I noticed was that holding this pistol made my medium-sized hands feel a bit bigger.

The slimmer frame and shorter stretch from back to front put more of my finger into the trigger guard. I’m used to shooting Glocks, so I had to make slight adjustments in grip to get a similar approach to the trigger.

This is anecdotal, of course, but it does begin to describe the grip size and contour. I think people with medium-to-small hands will enjoy this grip.

I found the MOD.2 to be very accurate.

After I got used to the grip and trigger, I was shooting noticeably smaller groups at 10 to 15 yards than I normally do with my Glock 19, which has almost exactly the same barrel length.

And this even with the relatively high bore axis on the MOD.2, which is as high as one might find on a hammer-fired pistol. I’m not a fan of the bore axis, but performance didn’t seem to suffer.

Part of its accuracy I attribute to the trigger, which has none of the grit found in many striker-fired pistols.

The trigger is a bit long on take-up and reset, but it is buttery smooth; much better than I remember on my old XD(m). Shorten the press length by half and it’d be a near perfect trigger. In any event, I got used to it.