Sig P220 10mm
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stagpanther
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It's equine easter--the dead horse has arisen!
stagpanther
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Sig, BTW, makes (or subcontracts out) it's own 10mm cartridges--which though not quite "full-blood 10mm strength" is still pretty stiff stuff--I've used to quite a bit of it and it's great ammo at a great price for the quality IMO.
I purchased my Sig P220 10mm as soon as they were released. It is an excellent pistol. I replaced the rosewood grips with some slimmer OD green Hogue aluminum grips, and they fit my hands perfectly.
If you own 10mm pistols, reloading is the only way to go. I just recently purchased 1000 180gr Gold Dot bullets from Wideners last month for $90. That was a steal!
Also, if you are looking for a holster, they are hard to come by. I dug through my box of no longer used holsters and found that a Blackhawk leather holster for a Springfield XDm .45 fit my Sig like a glove.
Here is a pic of my Sig P220 10mm-
Here is a pic of the Blackhawk XDm holster-
If you own 10mm pistols, reloading is the only way to go. I just recently purchased 1000 180gr Gold Dot bullets from Wideners last month for $90. That was a steal!
Also, if you are looking for a holster, they are hard to come by. I dug through my box of no longer used holsters and found that a Blackhawk leather holster for a Springfield XDm .45 fit my Sig like a glove.
Here is a pic of my Sig P220 10mm-
Here is a pic of the Blackhawk XDm holster-
Mike_Fontenot
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SAO or DA/SA?
dakota1911
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I also had a G20 years ago and sold it then got back into 10mm in 1911 land with a Colt and a DW. I have also been looking at the SIG P220 in SA and 10mm. It looks nice. If you reload then 10mm is not expensive.
Remington* and Amscor ammo I've found to be priced somewhat reasonably for 10mm Auto, and both seemed to shoot very accurately. No, neither are 'real' 10mm ammo in the sense of living up to the legend, but they're decent for getting started.
I owned a P220 45 Auto and have shot Sigs a bajillion rounds or so, and love shooting them. While I've never shot the 10mm Sig, I have to think it's a great gun, and you'll love it. For about 30% of the cost of that gun, roughly, you can probably set yourself up to reload 10mm, and you'll break even on shooting in a very short time.
My impression in a few years of hanging around the sites is that 10mm holds a very special place in the hearts and minds of shooters and shooter wannabe's alike: it's a cartridge that is believed to hold mystical ballisticals...like some sort of physics-defying round that has one Reality seldom if ever met since the time of dragons and magic swords.
Despite the silly fantasies of it being a polar bear killer, it IS a fantastic cartridge. To enjoy it to the max, I strongly second the notion that you really DO have to handload for it, if you want to a) shoot the cartridge loaded to something close to what it was intended to do, and b) not shoot expensive and potentially untested boutique ammo loaded to fantasy ballistics in the belief 10mm Auto was somehow intended to be 44 Rem Mag.
*I've found that the nickel-plated brass that Remington's 10mm Auto comes loaded in is very nice brass for heavy duty handloads. While I find Starline's 10mm auto brass squirts out of the chamber like Play-Doh from the Play-Doh Factory, even with 90% spec loads, the Remington brass will still look like brass. So, in some ways, it's almost worth it to buy that high-priced ammo for the good shooting and the good cases.
I owned a P220 45 Auto and have shot Sigs a bajillion rounds or so, and love shooting them. While I've never shot the 10mm Sig, I have to think it's a great gun, and you'll love it. For about 30% of the cost of that gun, roughly, you can probably set yourself up to reload 10mm, and you'll break even on shooting in a very short time.
My impression in a few years of hanging around the sites is that 10mm holds a very special place in the hearts and minds of shooters and shooter wannabe's alike: it's a cartridge that is believed to hold mystical ballisticals...like some sort of physics-defying round that has one Reality seldom if ever met since the time of dragons and magic swords.
Despite the silly fantasies of it being a polar bear killer, it IS a fantastic cartridge. To enjoy it to the max, I strongly second the notion that you really DO have to handload for it, if you want to a) shoot the cartridge loaded to something close to what it was intended to do, and b) not shoot expensive and potentially untested boutique ammo loaded to fantasy ballistics in the belief 10mm Auto was somehow intended to be 44 Rem Mag.
*I've found that the nickel-plated brass that Remington's 10mm Auto comes loaded in is very nice brass for heavy duty handloads. While I find Starline's 10mm auto brass squirts out of the chamber like Play-Doh from the Play-Doh Factory, even with 90% spec loads, the Remington brass will still look like brass. So, in some ways, it's almost worth it to buy that high-priced ammo for the good shooting and the good cases.
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stagpanther
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Sig itself makes an excellent quality 10mm round--not quite up to "true" full power (which I consider approximately 1300fps+ 600+ ftlbs) but very high quality, relatively strong cartridge,my guess is speer makes it for them, and it is usually cheaper at my LGS than many other brands.
Mike_Fontenot
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Full spec 10mm is near or above 700 ft-lbs.
stagpanther
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700+ is tough to find outside of loading your own, I think "full-power 10" is genrally considered to be around 650/675 ftlbs which is what the original production Norma was if I recall correctly.
Mike_Fontenot
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Take a look at Underwood and DoubleTap.
stagpanther
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I have--and I've used them.
Cosmodragoon
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That's a beautiful pistol. I didn't know they made it in a DA/SA configuration. Now I'm interested... How much did it set you back?