tamc9395 wrote:Second attempt to see what is the suggested Ammo without having to go through trial and error. Any help would be appreciated since I am picking mine up tommorrow.
Your primary consideration is barrel length, as your XDs will eat any bullet design you care to try. Your XDs barrel is 3.3" which is actually a tad longer than the the barrel on a 3" 1911. Probably any load, either in standard or +P charges, with a 185 to 200 grain bullet would be plenty sufficient. Actually, I carried 230 grain HST in my 3" Kimber, and I now carry 230 grain HST in both my 3.5" barrled Kahr CW45 and my 3.8" barreled XDm-45.....because that's what I have on hand. Eventually, I'll burn that ammo up and replace it with a 185 grain +P load. But even so, I don't feel particularly under-armed with a 230 grain load at a slightly lower velocity in a short barreled gun, and nobody has volunteered to let me shoot them to prove to me how ineffective that choice is.