Just to be clear the spring on the XD gets progressively bigger on one end and that is what I put on backwards while not paying attention.ScubaSigGuy wrote:FWIW I stopped working on guns with the TV on after I put the recoil spring in backwards on my XD. I have heard people say that they make sure that there are no live rounds in the same room when they are dry firing and I always thought that was extreme, since I use snap caps typically.
After thinking about Your story and how tragic the results could have been it might not be a bad practice to adopt.
