jc, you can make bulleted lists and regurgitate the same stuff over and over again, but until you provide evidence, it is nothing more than an echo. You still haven't provided one lick of data that supports your conclussion that the more popular rounds are better LE/defense rounds.
I never said that the 10mm Auto didn't push bullets to the upper end of their velocity spectrum--it most certainly does. But I did provide an email from a Speer representative stating that, in my case, the bullet in question was designed to perform at those velocities. Everything you have said afterwards has been pretty hollow--which is maybe why it echos so well.
Go ahead and tell the topic starter that "you think" the other rounds are better for strictly LE/defense, but you have no real evidence to support this. Don't go spouting it off like it is fact. In fact both the bullet manufacture and the ammunition manufacture provide evidence to concluded the ammunition does perform, I have no reason not to believe them. The physics involved isn't exactly rocket science. And unlike you, I don't claim to know more about a bullet than the company who designed and marketed it.
Popularity is overrated. The internet means I have an unlimited suppply of ammunition in a variety of bullet weights and styles at my finger tips. All I have to do is order in advance and stockpile. I know a store that stocks the Silvertips enough that when I run out of Double Tap, I have a decent backup on hand. Until then, I use Double Tap because I have no reason not to believe it will not perform as advertised--and you have yet to provide any.
If the other cartridges are better for that particular role, we are going to need evidence. The 10mm Auto may not be perfect, but if you try to detract from it without anything but the hot air exiting your mouth, some people are bound to call you on it. I just didn't think it would take you long enough for 90+ posts to accumulate still presenting opinion as fact with no evidence. The point here is that the cartridge may not be as popular as some other rounds, but I think it is due more to people spouting nonesense about it than any real fault of the cartridge itself. If the cartridge was given its due, it could be as popular as the .45 ACP. Maybe more so.
You can twist and stammer and studder but all you've done for three pages or more is say the same stuff over and over again and it is still as unsupported as when you first said it. And all I have done is ask you to provide something that supports it. Rinse and repeat doesn't work here. Evidence is what I am after, not seeing how many times you can say the same thing over and over again in how many different ways while avoiding the entire point. I did notice, however, that you dropped the question of who brought up the LE/defense role of the cartridge first. It was pretty well documented and foolish for you to even attempt to deny credit/blame for that. Like John, I was anxious to see how you would attempt to wiggle out of it.
