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I still prefer .40. As a hunter and reloader, I use oddball cartridges and find most of the vanilla stuff boring. Also as a hunter, I don't hunt dangerous animals with something "adequate with propper shot placement". I like a little more margin of error and bigger bullets going just as fast as smaller bullets are never not better. Recoil is negligibly greater and capacity is a round or two less, yet double what a 1911 provides.
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Perhaps if you like hunting with a handgun and also like the 40 caliber, you might like the 10mm over the 40. It shoots the same bullet at significantly higher velocity and has a better reputation as a hunting caliber. Just a thought.
I bought a 40 S&W several years ago but after shooting a little over 250 rounds, I decided that the recoil impulse was not doing good things to my fore arm, so I sold that gun and bought a 10mm. I get a much longer somewhat softer recoil impulse from the 10mm. The down side to that is the 10mm weighs almost half again as much as the 40.