For what it’s worth, given your semi-snarky reply, here’s your other semi-snarky reply: you said you have no confidence in the gun as a carry piece and the company as a whole because of how it ran with steel case ammo, so do (did?) you plan to run the weapon with steel case defensively?
Hmm, wonder if the name comes from Ruger+Magpul but X is just cooler in the name.
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Dang, I never thought of that!
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Ruger “by” (X) MagPul
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BTW, the rear sight idea is epic, I have some Sig sights I’d written off, will try this out.
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UPDATE:
Since originally posting of the teething pains with this particular (green) Dagger Compact I thought an update may be appropriate.
I have hand cycled the slide many, many, many times - and short stroked it back and forth many, many times focusing upon that small segment of the slide’s travel where the gritty/grabby portion seems to be. I’ve cleaned, re-oiled, repeated the process several times over with the “clean” oil becoming black during these kitchen table cycling exercises. While there is still a little bit of “extra” resistance in the small portion of its travel where the grabby/gritty used to be, it now just sort of “squeaks” a little on that section. Even with eased forward sliding, it hardly hangs up anymore at the rough spot and no longer needs a nudge to go into battery. Cleaned and re-lubed then went shooting.
I used a mixed bag of magazines ranging from Glock OEM, P-Mags, “crappy” brands known for less than staller reliability - though nameless for now, as well as MecGar metal magazines with the smooth magazine catch/release pocket.
If all of this were not enough, I went so far as to use (please don’t hate me) commercial reloads.
Oh, one last thing, I limited this range session to only 115 grain FMJ rounds - brass case for the reloads and some (forgive me) steel case factory ammo.
RESULT: No problems whatsoever!
The formerly grabby/gritty portion of the slide’s travel is there, albeit to a much lesser degree, but considering my choices of magazines and ammo I think that I stacked the deck against the pistol as much as I could short of deliberate debris contamination, limp-wristing or other frivolities I thought unnecessary.
I can now say that despite the now much reduced rough spot, this Compact Dagger performs as well as my other Daggers.
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Oh no, NOT COMMERICAL RELOADS!!! Say it isn’t so…..
LOL!
Sounds like you are well on your way to having much more fun w/that Dagger. Curious, are you seeing wear on the slide/frame/barrel in one specific area?
Glad to hear it’s working out!
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Yes, a couple very small spots have the Cerokote worn away; very small spots - almost need a magnifying glass to see after wiping away the oil. The “rough spot” seems to be just as the slide resets the trigger - a gritty “two parts not happy with each other” feel … and it’s tight just before it goes into (full) battery. I lubed the trigged bar and area of interface with the slide that resets it and it does seem to help.
I think I got this, but still feel as though finish machining, Cerokote dimensional control and/or interfacing parts tolerance stacking was/is the culprit. If anyone would have so much as racked the slide manually before shipping this would have been noticed - IOW, the most modest level of manual QC would have caught this.
In sum, I do believe that I now have a functionally reliable pistol and its net cost was just a little more than half that of a Glock. In fact, the more Daggers I buy, the better the dollar delta compared to a lesser number of Glocks. RXMs, direct from an FFL retailer contra to a manufacturer-direct sale coupled with a transfer fee is the middle ground that cannot be ignored from a value standpoint. I only own one RXM and that one example was, IMHO, better than just about all of my Glocks. That being said, only time will tell if it is as anvil reliable.
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i’d have to disagree. only on the basis that every PSA firearm is test fired for functionality before it is shipped out of the factory to the consumer. therefore when the operators test fired this gun, they must have had no issues with what they fired… and honestly it is possible it ran right for 2-3 rounds for them, before they shipped it to you where it hiccupped. either way, im very delighted you got the rig to run well by smoothing it out with the old shake and bake rack attack plan 
well done! I never thought that the gun would be trash or unreliable.. just more of a break in was needed in the long run.
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