What do you like shooting a 10mm with?

[Stevie-Ray]

Im not convinced at all that the Delta cannot handle original full pressure 10mm loads.

Well, I certainly have one that always could. Before I started reloading, the Normas, Silver-Tips, and PMCs were about all I could find. The PMCs were the lightest of these and were 170 gr HPs at 1200 fps, not exactly nuclear, but certainly not anemic. My Delta ingested thousands of these rounds, whatever I could get, with nary a "smile" and I saved all my brass, knowing I would eventually reload, since it was always a chore to find. Once I started handloading, I still never went below that PMC load performance-wise.

 

[Unlicensed Dremel]

Dan Wesson Silverback or maybe a Sig P220 Elite Stainless SAO

Fine choices, but for me the Witness (Hunter) wins, for my money.

I've had all of the following 10mms and none were as aesthetically pleasing and high-quality as this Witness Hunter:
Glock 29
Glock 20
Witness Steel (regular full-sized)
Colt Delta Elite
S&W 610

Yes, the last two surprised me that I didn't like them either. Smith had a hillary hole and a poor to mediocre trigger; the Colt had crappy sights and rather poor fit and finish, especially for the price you pay for it. Glocks are well, junky feeling frankly, to say the least, and uglier than warmed over death - but they work.

The Witness also has a better capacity than 1911s, the Sig 220, and 3rd Gen Smiths.

The trigger is SAO, and not as good as a 1911 though, of course.

Would love to have that C-Bob Dan Wesson however - what a concealed carry rig!

https://eaacorp.com/portfolio-item/witness-hunter/

 

[Bongo Boy]

I feel pretty much the same way about the Hunter, which to me should be the starting point for any manufacturer introducing any all-steel 10mm auto pistol. They nailed it with the frame, grip and frame-slide interface--and it's quite possibly the most comfortable handgun I have. I'd very much like to see the gun developed further, and offered in something more of a 5" configuration with a tighter trigger and a better, beefier rear sight. I wish I'd purchased 2 when I could--they are quite lovely. The very similar Bullseye/Gold Cup model seems to have vanished as well.

 

[bamaranger]

Glock

G20 guy myself, though I acquired it while searching for a Delta. Put a 3.5 connector in it, and carried on. For a while, the G20 got carried and talked about more than I ever shot it. Last couple of months, I've been carrying it to the range about every trip, no matter what else I'm doing, and running at least 1 mag through it.

Bamaboy did a brief stint with it, 2-3 matches, loaded down during his initial step up from a .22 Ruger. For him, we loaded it to sub .40 SW energy, and it still ran fine. For full power loads, had a small issue with a component change that gave me a really spooky high pressure experience, but got that figured out and back to nomal.

Normally, I don't run the G20 full bore, more like .40 SW +P.......a 180 truncated FMJ at about 1100 fps +/-. When I attempt to slay Bambi with it, I load it with factory ammo, Hornady 180 JHP, or more recently W-W 175 SilverTip. Have thought about getting a G21 slide and mags to have a switch slide arrangement, but have not done so.

 

[Bongo Boy]

If you're not familiar with Fusion Firearms you might ask around these parts about their products. I don't own anything they've built, but have heard only positive reviews online. What's nice, if you like 1911s, is that they offer pretty much any configuration can imagine from the CCO to the longslide hunter and everything in between. I think their prices are getting into the Wilson Combat/Les Baer stratosphere, but that doesn't seem to scare a lot of folks who enjoy that sort of thing. It's an option--and my impression is everything they produce they'll chamber in 10mm. Which is nice.

 

[979Texas]

The only pistol that I own, and have ever owned, is a Glock 20 Gen 4. This gun is 100 percent stock everything and I have never had any problem at all with it. Not one single jam, ftf, fte, stove pipe, ftl, or anything at all ever go wrong with it and I have shot everything from dirty dirt cheap target ammo to nuclear 200 gr Underwood loads and have never had one single failure of any type.

It shoots every time you pull the trigger. It is comfortable has a rhythmic trigger, and is an all around good gun. And it can take some pretty bad conditions and perform flawlessly.

One time a little before last Easter I was hog hunting and it was raining hard. I had my G20 in a plastic holster on my hip while I was crossing a creek. Anyway long story short I ended up falling in the creek on my back when I attempted to jump it. I had an AR strapped across my chest at the time to. So both guns took on lots of water and very gritty dark silt. But I'm confident in my rugged weapons so I keep on trudging and eventually run into a big boar out in the open and I manage to get off two shots with my AR, one of which dropped him temporarily ten yards away from me. And I got off 4 shots with my water logged and gritty G20, it fired flawlessly and it saved the hunt because I ended up making a 65 yard drop shot on the hog with it while the hog was at a dead run 65 yards away.

So after a performance like that after taking on all that muddy water and silt from beign temporarily submerged in the creek when I was down and then firing multiple times with no hitch and keeping the accuracy to drop a big boar at a dead run 65 yards away, without even field cleaning or any kind of cleaning or stripping of the G20 after the fall in creek, I couldnt ask for more in a trustworthy woods companion.

 

[Bongo Boy]

and besides the full pressure loads have to meet SAMMI specs to be sold

Where did you get that?

SAAMI doesn't publish 'specs' as far as I know, they publish recommendations, and I've not ever heard of any government regulations requiring adherence to a private, de facto standard. Are you sure about this?