Yesterday at the Puyallup Gun Show in WA, where I bought my Kel-Tec P-11, I was "fishing" for a 10 mm auto too..
I would like having a reliable 10 for "light" wildlife protection when I hike around the state, the worst you can encounter around here is a big cat or a black bear and there are 10 mm loads, I believe, more than adequate for that purpose...
I would like to avoid carrying my big long barrel 44 Mag, except when there is a possibility to meet something bigger...
Problem is that I cannot find a 10 mm pistol that I like or I can trust.
As many of you probably already know, I had a EAA Witness that gave me frequent jamming problems even after changing the magazine spring and recoil spring (Wolff) and I traded it for my S&W Mod. 29 44 Mag.
EAA Customer Service is horrible and they want me to pay for shipping to and from the service location...I heard of people shipping the gun back and forth many times at their expenses without the issues being resolved..on top of that my gun was the "rounded top" model and I heard from several sources that these slides tend to crack....the EAA gunsmith told me very clearly to do not shoot Buffalo Bore, Double Tap or Corbon (kind of defy the purpose of having a 10 mm IMHO) and he said that the rounded top is the newer model, the squared top (the one that many says are tougher) are not longer produced.
To sum it up, that is not very confidence inspiring to say the least, and it is hard to part with $400 with all these issues..
So yesterday the only 10 mm I could find were the EAA Witness rounded top like mine or the Glocks 20.....I could have get one of the 20 NIB for 450 after negotiation...I just "cannot" like Glocks...I tried them, just a funny feeling, I do not like pistols only DA, with polymer frames and no external hammer...I really cannot convince myself about buying one....I just got the P-11 because my main motivation for this purchase was the "pocketability"..so I had no much choice for that but I do not plan to shoot the P-11 that much anyway....is an emergency gun
There are really any other choices, reasonably priced in 10 mm??? I saw no Delta Elite at all for example at the show, and I heard that they can crack the slides too by the way....
So, in the end, there are any .40 loads with decent power to deal with big cats and blackies??? Buffalo Bore offer a load with some decent numbers (well over 600 ft/lb)...
I could use them in my Thunder .40 and forget forget my 10 mm love story.....
Suggestions or comments??
Thank you!!!
I would like having a reliable 10 for "light" wildlife protection when I hike around the state, the worst you can encounter around here is a big cat or a black bear and there are 10 mm loads, I believe, more than adequate for that purpose...
I would like to avoid carrying my big long barrel 44 Mag, except when there is a possibility to meet something bigger...
Problem is that I cannot find a 10 mm pistol that I like or I can trust.
As many of you probably already know, I had a EAA Witness that gave me frequent jamming problems even after changing the magazine spring and recoil spring (Wolff) and I traded it for my S&W Mod. 29 44 Mag.
EAA Customer Service is horrible and they want me to pay for shipping to and from the service location...I heard of people shipping the gun back and forth many times at their expenses without the issues being resolved..on top of that my gun was the "rounded top" model and I heard from several sources that these slides tend to crack....the EAA gunsmith told me very clearly to do not shoot Buffalo Bore, Double Tap or Corbon (kind of defy the purpose of having a 10 mm IMHO) and he said that the rounded top is the newer model, the squared top (the one that many says are tougher) are not longer produced.
To sum it up, that is not very confidence inspiring to say the least, and it is hard to part with $400 with all these issues..
So yesterday the only 10 mm I could find were the EAA Witness rounded top like mine or the Glocks 20.....I could have get one of the 20 NIB for 450 after negotiation...I just "cannot" like Glocks...I tried them, just a funny feeling, I do not like pistols only DA, with polymer frames and no external hammer...I really cannot convince myself about buying one....I just got the P-11 because my main motivation for this purchase was the "pocketability"..so I had no much choice for that but I do not plan to shoot the P-11 that much anyway....is an emergency gun
There are really any other choices, reasonably priced in 10 mm??? I saw no Delta Elite at all for example at the show, and I heard that they can crack the slides too by the way....
So, in the end, there are any .40 loads with decent power to deal with big cats and blackies??? Buffalo Bore offer a load with some decent numbers (well over 600 ft/lb)...
I could use them in my Thunder .40 and forget forget my 10 mm love story.....
Suggestions or comments??
Thank you!!!
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