Well, here is a brief range report on the
Springfield XDm OSP:
I recently purchased my 9th Springfield pistol in 4 years! I really like the grip angle of the Springfield and the trigger feel ( (vs. the Glock, even though I also own 3 Glocks). I am consistently more accurate with the Springfield than with the Glock as well. I have some theories as to why, but mostly seems to simply be the way that the grip fits my hand - YMMV.
Anyway, this time I purchased the 9mm XDm OSP with the Vortex Venom optic. I had heard various concerns about optics mounted on pistol slides, most commonly the fear that the optic would not survive the shock of constant high speed slide cycling - so I decided to run an informal test.
I sighted it in and took it to a full day tactical handgun class in Prosper run by Phil Ryan. After about 600 rounds the screws for the optic came loose (one of them hit me in the lip) even though they appeared to have been (blue) locktighted and the optic went flying... The springfield ejected the optic to the left and rearward
The optic appeared absolutely no worse for wear (it was still working even after it hit the ground!) but I could not immediately find the little black screws - so I completed the course of fire using the fiber optic front sight and standard rear sights.
So, I found that once I learned how to quickly obtain the little red dot sight picture, the pistol was very accurate and I was eating the center out of the target. It shot a little low close in (3-5 yards) but was sighted dead center at 7 yards (this was a very close quarters exercise day on the range).
I do want to take it out and see how it fares at 25 to 50 to 100 yards, more out of curiosity than anything else, but other than the need to periodically check the tightness of the mounting screws, IMHO the test was successful and a lot of fun!
