But if doing slow precision shooting, then the stock white sight allows a crisper outline, where as the brightness of the fiber optic over powers the outline of the sight a little.īoth these guns are great at the range, and can also be concealed carried. If taking a red dot setup out of consideration, for action shooting the fiber optic is real nice, because the eye picks it up so easy. But I wanted to compare the stock white front sight, to the red fiber optic front sight, to the red dot. This part of my comments has nothing to do with the guns, themselves. When shooting the Glock with the red dot, I'm a little bit faster and more accurate. I say that even though I overall like the Glock more. If never having shot the guns before, and I would have favored the XD. I shoot the Glock a lot more, so am very familiar with it. While doing so, I definitely appreciated and favored the XD trigger and the after market fiber optic red front sight. I shot the XD and Glock iron (plastic) sights the same, same speed, same accuracy. Most of the shooting I did was from IWB concealed, at 12 yards, at an 8 inch circle, 10 rounds, as fast as I could getting all hits. Lighter and crisper than the Glock trigger. That XD design while still being a striker fire, is pretty nifty.

The real difference between the two is the XD single-action with grip safety. This is why my wife likes the XD as 'hers'. However, the XD has a shorter trigger reach and grip circumference, even compared to using my G17 without any added grip piece. The G17 is lighter, at 25.1 ounces, while the XD feels a little top heavier at 28.2 ounces.

The barrel lengths are both nominally around 4', but while the G17 is just over, the XD is just under. The G17 and XD grip lengths are about same, but in standard capacity the G17 holding 17 and the XD holding 16. I think of the XD as being closer to the G17 than to the G19. The Springfield XD 9mm has a fiber optic front sight that the camera doesn't capture too well, but is bright as heck outside.

Shot the Glock 17 gen4 9mm both as an iron sight (stock sights), and as a red dot (with supressor height front sight). Just some side by side shooting today of these 2 guns.

Springfield xd 9mm vs glock 19