And how does that summation explain what Glock did? Glock not only went right on ahead making the Glock 20 (and selling it, I'll have to assume), they went further and built the G29 in 1997 and sold them also. And sell them both still, to this day, to decent demand.
I'm not trying to sit here and convince anyone that 10mm pistols are all the rage... they are not, they are a drop in the bucket. But I disagree that sales were the prime motivator for S&W's decision specifically on the 10xx series. They made 50,000 of them, no small number, and after they quit, they introduced 10mm in a revolver! Why would they do that if they thought nobody wanted a 10mm?
It's not because nobody wanted a 10mm.
It was because S&W didn't want anyone/anything to draw attention away from the .40 S&W round.
As I said, it's hard to argue with what they did... they sure seemed to have done well with it. But how horribly difficult would it have been for S&W to keep producing the 10xx pistols given the fact they they were still building many metric tons of the 4506?
Kentucky and New Mexico were certainly still using them long after those wusses at the FBI went to the wimpier round.
And recent history is littered with guns that were discontinued even though most everyone LOVED them. See Colt and any of their revolvers, and a half dozen more from different gun makers.
I'm not trying to sit here and convince anyone that 10mm pistols are all the rage... they are not, they are a drop in the bucket. But I disagree that sales were the prime motivator for S&W's decision specifically on the 10xx series. They made 50,000 of them, no small number, and after they quit, they introduced 10mm in a revolver! Why would they do that if they thought nobody wanted a 10mm?
It's not because nobody wanted a 10mm.
It was because S&W didn't want anyone/anything to draw attention away from the .40 S&W round.
As I said, it's hard to argue with what they did... they sure seemed to have done well with it. But how horribly difficult would it have been for S&W to keep producing the 10xx pistols given the fact they they were still building many metric tons of the 4506?
Kentucky and New Mexico were certainly still using them long after those wusses at the FBI went to the wimpier round.
And recent history is littered with guns that were discontinued even though most everyone LOVED them. See Colt and any of their revolvers, and a half dozen more from different gun makers.
