10mm out of style?

For me, the 10mm just came en vogue. I bought a Glock 20 a few months ago and have been shooting the heck out of it (totally reliable, of course).
I got the dies and brass and I am reloading for it. This round is a reloaders dream. The brass lasts forever, it is cheap to reload, it is easy to make good loads (lots of room to work with), you can make 10mm lite loads, or super-ass-kicking 10mm hunting loads. You reload using .40 caliber bullets, so those are easy and cheap to find. I am told that you can use .40 caliber brass and load it light and long if you want to. It holds 15 rounds + 1. It is the most powerful stock service handgun on the planet right now (16 rounds of 10mm can't be beat). The chamber is the most supported of all the Glocks, and the gun is built like a tank.

Ballistics can't be beat in a service gun. It puts out the most foot pounds of energy of any service gun on the market AND the most power factor. The round just kicks ass, nothing can touch it in a stock service handgun.
Having a 10mm means that you never have to feel like you don't have enough. You want energy? 700-900+ foot pounds ought to do. You want momentum and power factor? 200gr bullet a 1250 fps will suffice and then some.
No matter what you want out of a service cartridge, the 10mm offers it in large helpings.
Me, I like Proload's 155gr 10mm loading. A 155gr Gold Dot moving at 1350fps and 617 foot pounds of energy is going to do the job.

For many reasons, the 10mm has recently become my round of choice, so, it is far from "out of style" in my book. In fact, looking hard into the world of abllistics, it seems to me that anyone that really knows anything about ballistics would be hard presses not to admit that the 10mm is far superior to any other stock service pistol cartridge on the planet.
The only people that don't like the 10mm are the people that are wussoes (spelled with a capital "P") that are afraid of a little recoil. And, in reality, these people have probably never even shot a 10mm, but are just going off of the rumors and they are too afraid to try it.
There is no reason that it is not the most popular service cartridge in the world except that the world has too many wussies who are afraid of a gun that has a little recoil. But, guess what....the gun recoils in your hand for a reason: imagine what it feels like on the receiving end!

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[This message has been edited by DerGlockenpooper (edited August 09, 2000).]
 
My second time posting this today.

"The firepower, penetration, and hard-hitting potential of a 10mm MP5 is greater than a .45 ACP Thompson submachine gun. At any range, the projectile fired from a 10mm MP5 has nearly twice the energy of a comparable 9mm, .40 S&W, or .45 ACP cartridge. "
I took this statment from the Heckler & Koch webpage. One of the most objective I can find now-a-days about the 10MM cartridge(my favorite). How the American shooting public was duped into believing "the 10MM is not a excellent cartridge" is beyond me. It has better ballistics than the 357 magnum. In fact, in the late 80s (early 90s) the 10MM was noted as demonstrating low end 41 magnum ballistics.

Of course we could not have began to experiment on the 10MM with a worst choice of cartridges, the NORMA 200 grain Truncated medal jacket. I was in Germany when the Delta Elite (that's another story) came out and bought the first one that hit our Rod & Gun Club. It didn't take long before the Norma ammo had left a bad taste in most shooters mouths. Not that the bullet weight was totally wrong but apparently little research went into the development of the NORMA 10MM 200 grain ammo. Recoil was much too excessive and everone was lead to believe that this was the nature of the 10MM ( I dissagree with that premise).

To make matters worst, COLT put a "PLASTIC" recoil spring guide in the "DELTA ELITE" (what were they thinking?) which the NORMA ammo beat to death at about 100 rounds. This made some people think the gun was no good, I just thought it was flawed. I took it to a German Gunsmith and had him mill a duplicate recoil spring guide out of 416 hardened steel (I kept the 2 spring configuration), tighten the slide/frame fit on a diamond press, and adjust the trigger pull to 4 lbs. The NORMA ammo was so expensive, I was forced to take up reloading. I used SPEER 190 grain truncated medal jacket bullets with 6.7 grains of Herc "UNIQUIE" gunpowder. What a sweet combination!! Try it sometime if you're fortunate enough to still own a 10MM handgun.
Now I know what you're going to say, "Charles, you just reinvented the 45 cartridge..." WRONG ANSWER! The nature of the 10MM is much different from the 45. The report is sweeter and much more toleratble, the recoil is more controllabe, and l consistantly experienced greater accuracy with much less effort( that is, concentrating on stance, sight alignment, breathing, trigger pull to get off a perfect shot every time).

Today, my "DELTA ELITE" has been modified to perfection (for me). The list includes: WILSON's full length recoil spring guide w/ 2 spring configuration and shock buff, flat mainspring housing, combat hammer, Walnut presentation grips; KING's extended slide safety, extended slide stop and model 104 (I believe) grip safety; original barrel (crowned), trigger( adjusted to 4 lbs and sights (never touched). I would "checker" the front strap but the gun feels perfect in my hand as it is. I can put a smiley face under the 10 on a pistol target at 25 yards any day. Although I seldom shoot this weapon. It has become more of a trophy that flies in the face of conventional wisdom to me than an everyday carry gun (I possess a North Carolina "Concealed Carry Permit" ).

Although I do carry it when I'm feeling real special. On those occasions it is accompanied by only the best accessories, i.e. a "Galco Concealable" holster cut for a Colt Officer's model( I like the look of that inch or so of steel sticking out the bottom of the holster), Wilson 9 rd 10MM magazines stuffed with COR@BON 150 grain 10MM JHP(1250 fps with a muzzle energy of around 620 ft/lbs of energy) . About the COR@BON 150 grain 10MM JHP ammo. I believe this is some of the most effective conventional ammunition available to the shooting public.

If Heckler & Koch would fit the "USP COMPACT .45" platform for the 10MM cartridge, I would be in shooter's heaven!! The Glock 29 just doesn't do it for me. I believe it would revive interest in the 10MM and do a lot to increase sales of gunbook magazines *_*
 
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