Follow-up post. Went back yesterday and picked up the XDs the wife reserved for me. Just got back from the range after test firing both of them (hers and mine  ). Attached are a couple pictures. I was using an experimental load (nowadays one loads whatever components one can find and experiments to ensure adequate velocity, reliable function, accuracy, and safe pressure in the resulting mix) which explains the chronograph. The weather was looking iffy so I set up under one of the facades w/overhead and put the target stand at 15m. Shot a couple magazines through each pistol and then shot a 10 round group with each XDs, hers on top, mine in the middle. The bottom target is a 23 round group with the XDm 45 to establish baseline and validate the ammo. Looks like I have a new primary CCW pistol. It's pretty much everything I anticipated. Not as snappy as the Kahr P40 I've been using and as accurate as should be expected from a Springfield pistol. I'll need to spend some more time with it to get used to the trigger and the grip, NTM I still need to run a variety of defense ammo through it to see what it likes. I found the XDs' easy to shoot; we'll have to see how the wife likes hers. (If she doesn't I get to be a real "pistolero" - one for each hand!  ) Thanks to those of you who kept my curiosity alive until I could finally "join the club". I do intend to get the seven round magazines though I'm not looking forward to spending $40 each for them.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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