10mm Ready to Party y/n?

[41mag]

as a novice handgunner long ago, IHMSA revolver iron sight matches toppling 50# rams at 200 yards, introduced me to the notion of 'maximum power' loads.....eventually I tired of the muzzle blast, recoil and noisome barrel leading each match requiring continual remedy....

That experience made me long for the to-be-discovered pleasures of being able to shoot 2 days in a row without RotoRooter/Hoppes9 service truck on call. Driving 44 mag hot loads ever faster without suffering sudden expensive unpleasantness involving barrel fragments & hot bits of ballistic steel frames became just too edgy for my novice level skills.

The simpler yet ever-more joyful reality for my own loads now, is finding ones I can accurately place on the target often enough to please myself with 'group' identifiable, rather than my previous random collection of specs resembling rat turds in a dresser drawer.

It took years to untrain the flinch. There still lurks traces of it on certain loads.

 

[Ura-Ki]

I see an average 1360 FPS out of a 5 inch 1911 and 1410 FPS out of a 6 inch 1911! @13.4 Gr Blue Dot! Safe? In my Arms yes ( Would not recommend testing in any Glock), yours, Handle with care!!! I have found a fairly consistent 80 FPS increase with every inch of barrel increase all the way to 16 inches which seems to be the max barrel length a 10 mm benefits from!

 

[pinne65]

I see an average 1360 FPS out of a 5 inch 1911 and 1410 FPS out of a 6 inch 1911! @13.4 Gr Blue Dot! Safe? In my Arms yes ( Would not recommend testing in any Glock), yours, Handle with care!!! I have found a fairly consistent 80 FPS increase with every inch of barrel increase all the way to 16 inches which seems to be the max barrel length a 10 mm benefits from!

Interesting!
You're saying no glock because of the unsupported chamber, or another reason?

Too bad it looks like Lone Wolf no longer does the 9" barrel for 10mm

 

[Ura-Ki]

Correct on the Glock! There are aftermarket barrels for this, but i havnt converted mine over, so i dont know how far you can lean on them!

 

[pinne65]

Unfortunately Lonewolf barrels don't look any different in support than Glock's own. I might look into another brand.

 

[mkwerx]

Storm Lake?

 

[pinne65]

It took years to untrain the flinch. There still lurks traces of it on certain loads.

I'm still working on that. When I get too close I dig out the .454 SRH and fire of a couple of 300grainers loaded over some 29grains of H110.

 

[pinne65]

Storm Lake?

IDK, them, KKM or Barsto are the brands that I have heard mentioned. But I don't know anything about them.

 

[Ura-Ki]

I use Schulman barrels on most of my builds, I never looked to see if they do a Glock barrel, and if they did, if it was supported or Not!

 

[pinne65]

Looks like Schulman only do 1911s. I might give Storm Lake a try. They claim their GLock barrels are fully supported.

 

[Levetti]

It's an old pic, so I don't know if this is even relevant to contemporary offerings. Bar Sto seems to have the best support.

 

[Boboclown]

There are people who reload with brass fired in a Glock without issue.

 

[Ura-Ki]

My G-20 dosnt mangle brass. I also don' push if very hard. Back when I got it, quality ammo was rare, and expensive!

 

[mkwerx]

First Glock I ever bought was a police trade in G22 - it bulged damn near every case I ever fired from it. Not a big deal to me since I don't reload, but did make me skeptical of running hot 40s in a Glock. I actually kinda sorta miss that gun, Buuuut I learned to hate 2nd gen Glocks when I bought a 2nd gen g22 (my first was an early gen 3) - gen 2 .40s without finger grooves, the thumb shelf, or grip texture were basically bars of soap. The difference was striking. My grip probably had a lot to do with it.


And @Medic! My earlier post was sarcasm of course Everyone loves ze German Luger round, with maybe the exception of @No_Regerts , including me. But this is 'Murica, and we still don't like that funky, easy to grasp, sensical metric system. Thats for limp wristed, pink panty wearin' yuuropeein's. Cooper should've called the round the .40 Cooper Magnum Automatic. And maybe worked with a better gun company to build a gun to harness its time barrier sheering power the S&W 1006 was / is a good gun. Maybe they shudda built Cooper's dream gun.

 

[pinne65]

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It's an old pic, so I don't know if this is even relevant to contemporary offerings. Bar Sto seems to have the best support.

Thanks - gives me something to go on.

 

[Ura-Ki]

I did find a Glock 20 barrel from Numerich, the description says it's a supported chamber, but the photos don't inspire confidence!