A question about 10mm

[Mooseman]

I don't own one and have only shot one once but I've always had a certain fascination with the round. I've heard that full power 10mm tends to beat up 1911 style hand guns. Is there any truth to that? How about polymer guns like the Glock 20?

Just for clarification, when I say full power I mean those in the middle of the spectrum, not the cream puff rounds nor the ye gods rounds.

[crazywolf]

there was some problems with the first 1911 but those problems have been worked out.replace your recoil spring and buffet as they need it and you'll be fine.I have a colt delta elite and it's a blast to shoot and it's my everyday carry gun.crazywolf

[Mitch10mm]

Naw, what he said ^. It is an awesome round. I liked my Colt DE more than my Glock 20 that's just me though.

[unclejumbo]

there was some problems with the first 1911 but those problems have been worked out.replace your recoil spring and buffet as they need it and you'll be fine.I have a colt delta elite and it's a blast to shoot and it's my everyday carry gun.crazywolf

Damn dude, where'd you get one of those?

[saleen322]

I don't own one and have only shot one once but I've always had a certain fascination with the round. I've heard that full power 10mm tends to beat up 1911 style hand guns. Is there any truth to that? How about polymer guns like the Glock 20?

Just for clarification, when I say full power I mean those in the middle of the spectrum, not the cream puff rounds nor the ye gods rounds.

Some early Deltas were lacking in case support as were some Glocks. Kimber's 10mm, also a 1911, is thought to be one of the strongest. The link below will give you a lot of pictures which will do a much better job of explaining it. The 10mm forum also has a lot of information on what works and what has shown some problems. Hope this helps.

http://10mm-firearms.com/10mm-semi-a...r-manufactuer/

[saleen322]

Here is my old 10mm. Had it for 20 years or so. I don't think of it as a target gun but this was 10 shots @ 25 yards so you can see they are pretty easy to shoot. This is one of my favorite loads, a 180 XTP @ 1252 fps. I also load a 210 cast bullet from 1000 fps to around 1120 depending what I want it for that shoots well.

[Mity2]

1911 tends to be less strong, due to some with rampless barrel Which provide no case support.

My RIA has ramped feed barrel and has been pretty damn decent

[EODguy]

I changed my Kimber Eclipse spring when I bought it, then every 3000 rounds there after, no science involved, springs are cheap. I did break an ejector once. My Kimber loves Winchester Silvertips 175gr. I have a few 10mm pistols and none of them have seen the use my Kimber has, and the ejector is the only issue I ever had with any of them. If you want to get into 10mm the S&W 610 is the best way into it, in my opinion, but not cheap, if you cannot find 10mm just load up some 40 S&W's with moon clips and off you go, and you can hunt with it! YMMV

[DucatiRon]

Have a Kimber, Glock 29, and an old S&W 1006. All 3 are 10mm and used in IDPA along with regular target shooting. Have had the Glock for over 5 years and the Kimber for 2 and the S&W for 3 or 4 yeas now. No signs of wear on any of them. I don't shoot cream puff stuff but most rounds tend to be in the 1200-1400 FPS range. Have a few thousand through each. Love the 10mm round.

[MOUNTAINORACLE]

I can only speak of my experiences with the Colts Delta Elites..when the 10mm Delta came out I was the first kid on my Block to order two Colts..

The Colts were the first of the Deltas offered to the public and I had to sent both back to Colt for frame modifications. The frame was subject to cracking and Colts official repair was to cut a piece of metal out of the frame and this solved that problem.

These Deltas were fed a diet of hot 10mm as the load I used then is the same load I use now the original Norma loading. I still carry one of these Deltas as EDC.