I have an XD-9 Service that I wanted a little work on so I decided to send it in to Springer Precision and let them tune it up a bit.
They offered me their FedEx discount, which was nice, so it was about 45.00 each way. They do this for all their customers by the way.

Services I had done:
Grip chop
Trigger job
Recrown barrel
Undercut trigger guard
Install my supplied sights(Trijicon HD)

Before you ask...no, I have not had a chance to shoot it yet. This review is just to show their handy work since when I was looking for pictures of some of the services they offered I couldn't find any of the things I wanted done. So, I decided to have them done on my pistol and then share it with anyone wondering what a particular service would look like once completed.

Now to the good stuff!


Finished product.


There is a bit of a gap that I wasn't expecting. I was expecting it to be a more precise fit, like from the factory. What you see hanging off the back is from the pinky extension.


Notice the gap.






Notice the offset. Both the compact and the full size mag have some side-to-side play in them but they do still lock in nice and tight and everything seems to be functioning ok to spite it.



The undercut of the trigger guard came out nice and smooth.

The grip chop came out a little rough in my opinion. I would have thought that paying someone to do it and having it done on a mill would have yielded a cleaner end product. I was able to clean it up pretty well with a Dremel and a nylon bristle wheel.

Real happy with the sights and how they turned out. The bright orange is a great contrast on the nearly all black rear sight and should make getting on point a snap. The tritium is bright and easy to pick up in the dark.





Barrel recorwning just 'cause. I think it turned out really well and looks slick.


All in all I'm please with the work they did. My only gripe would be the roughness left over by the mill on the grip chop. It took me all of 5 minutes with a Dremel to clean it up and I feel the extra effort to clean up their work should have been made.

The trigger job seems nice while dry firing it. The take up and reset has been greatly reduced. They said they set it at about 4#, which I have no way to test, but it is a bit lighter than the factory trigger. The biggest difference is not the weight of the pull but the length of it as well as the reset.

The barrel crown looks good, but you could have gotten Morgan to do it probably a lot cheaper. The sights could be installed by anyone with a pusher for around $20 bucks.

The under cut and chop look bad. I got a grip reduction, undercut, and stippling job done by a forum member on here. He did a awesome job. I can't believe Springer would let something leave their custom shop that looked like the chop. The under cut is smooth, but they could have made it look better. The inside of the magwell and gap are unacceptable to me and I'd be letting them know exactly how I felt about it.

Congrats on the custom pistol, but I'm sorry they did such a bad job.

yep, pretty sloppy work.

Yep, I made Kydex holsters for a time out of my garage. It is close to the same thing. I used a dremel and belt sander for the edges of my holsters to shape it. I always used sand paper and manually finished the edges and buffed the edges for a smooth finish. I would never let something like that leave my bench and go to a customer.

I know that if you can't say anything nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.

I would not be a happy girl, if one of my pistol's was returned to me like that.

They butchered it, I'm sorry.

I posted this same thread on another forum that the people of Springer Precision frequent so I'm sure they'll see it before I can find time to contact them personally, but I will.

There isn't anything they can do to correct the issues at this point but I will make them aware.

Was there a problem with the barrel? Having it recrowned just in case..... or looks. Looks good/BAD from this end.

No reason.
Just a cheap mod that I thought might look nice.