Summary: Learn how to wipe down the receiver back on a Springfield XD 9mm handgun in this free how-to video on proper maintenance care of a Springfield XD 9mm handgun.
Jason Boatwright has worked in and around the firearm industry for six years. Over the last two years he was a gun library specialist for Cabelas. He has also been a safety team...read more
"Moving on to the back of the frame, here, we're just going to do the same thing. We'll be cleaning up the hammer, the spring, we'll kind of look around make sure everything is good. At this point I'll kind of touch my hand to the trigger and keep my finger on the hammer here and I just kind of see if there's anywhere that maybe some excess oil may be coming out. I don't see any so I'm not going to worry about it. But, if you do the same thing, what you can do is you'll know that you'll need to spend a little extra time wiping there. You may move the trigger assembly just a little bit and something may come out. OKay! Now that we've got that all wiped up we're not going to worry much about the outside, our frame's Polymer. There's not a lot of metal parts on there. We've got our catch and our slide release, here, wiped down, just like we've got the inside of our frame wiped down. So, this is pretty good. The next thing that we're going to do is we're actually going to clean out our barrel with our bore snake."
eHow Article: Wiping Down the Receiver Back of a Springfield XD 9mm Handgun