Assembling the Barrel of a Springfield XD 9mm Handgun

Video Transcript

"So, here we are, we've got everything cleaned up, we've got our barrel swabbed out, we got our guide rod scrubbed and wiped down, we got our slide scrubbed and wiped down, the same thing with our lower receiver. Our first step back in to reassembling this is we're just going to do this in a reverse order that we originally did. We're going to take our slide, here, and I'm going to just, this is just by habit and I think it's a good habit to create. I'm always kind of looking over everything to make sure things are where they should be. That, and I'm kind of looking to make sure there's nothing in here, like maybe I had a piece of a patch or something. So, I'm just going to do that, look it over. Bolt face is looking good, the inside of my frame rails are clean, they're obstruction free. So the next thing to do is just take the barrel, and remember that the flat end of your barrel, the top of your barrel, because in actuality your barrel's going to sit like this, but inside the frame. We're going to turn it upside down because we have our frame, here, upside down. We're just going to repeat the process, we're going to come in at an angle. You can see right here at the front of the slide your barrel hole, the barrel catch. We're just going to slide our barrel right into that, and then really, you can just kind of take your left hand and just lower that barrel. You just wiggle it and you can see right here it can kind of catch. You just touch it and you'll feel it fall in. When it's in correctly, there's nothing to make noise, there's no rattling, there's no shifting. Now, if I move my barrel forward, it will get up and slide forward. But when it's set inside, here we are, we know we're in our locked position. Now that we have the barrel in here, I've looked, I made sure it's not moving, I looked for obstructions, there's no obstructions. So the next thing we're going to do is we're going to put our guide rod back in."