Frank Black
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Ironic perhaps, but the 10mm AUTO, and later its larger offspring, the 10mm Magnum, were both initially premised on operating off autoloading platforms, not revolvers ... and yet here we are in 2021 talking about their ballistic performance from wheelguns, or 'converted' wheelguns in the 10mm Mag's case.
With the 10mm AUTO, a myriad of semi-auto platforms now exist, many more so than at any other time since Norma introduced the cartridge back in 1983. We've got 10mm 1911s, Glocks, Sigs, CZs/Tanfoglios, Springfield XDMs, that one Yugoslav gun (forgot the name, Grand Power P40?), plus all the old S&W 10XXs still floating around, et.al., and no doubt some other makes I'm forgetting.
So it would be interesting if, say, Glock came out with a dedicated, beefed-up, long slide model, similar to the G40, but chambered for the 10mm Magnum. Maybe the same length and dimensions of G40's 6.2" slide, but with a 7.2" barrel. Possibly factory-ported, as they used to do with the early G20Cs.
Or possibly, a new version of the old-but-beefy Grizzliy 1911 pistols could be made to work for the 10mm Mag, if one wanted a 1911-platform. No doubt they'd come with higher Q.C. than anything AMT/IAI cranked out, ... although AMT still deserves some amount of kudos for giving us at least one gun chambered in 10mm Mag, the AutoMag Mk IV.
Otherwise Taffin couldn't have penned his very fine, and now historically significant, article detailing his experience shooting it and handloading for it.
With the 10mm AUTO, a myriad of semi-auto platforms now exist, many more so than at any other time since Norma introduced the cartridge back in 1983. We've got 10mm 1911s, Glocks, Sigs, CZs/Tanfoglios, Springfield XDMs, that one Yugoslav gun (forgot the name, Grand Power P40?), plus all the old S&W 10XXs still floating around, et.al., and no doubt some other makes I'm forgetting.
So it would be interesting if, say, Glock came out with a dedicated, beefed-up, long slide model, similar to the G40, but chambered for the 10mm Magnum. Maybe the same length and dimensions of G40's 6.2" slide, but with a 7.2" barrel. Possibly factory-ported, as they used to do with the early G20Cs.
Or possibly, a new version of the old-but-beefy Grizzliy 1911 pistols could be made to work for the 10mm Mag, if one wanted a 1911-platform. No doubt they'd come with higher Q.C. than anything AMT/IAI cranked out, ... although AMT still deserves some amount of kudos for giving us at least one gun chambered in 10mm Mag, the AutoMag Mk IV.
Otherwise Taffin couldn't have penned his very fine, and now historically significant, article detailing his experience shooting it and handloading for it.

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