Pistols designed specifically for the .40 S&W cartridge?

[Sylvan-Forge]

I can only think of the Heckler & Koch USP and the
Smith & Wesson 4006.

Any others?

 

[The Lone Haranguer]

SIG P229 and the .40 version of the Browning Hi-Power. The machined stainless steel slide used on most newer SIGs was introduced on this model. The .40 Hi-Power has a third locking lug on the barrel, a heavier slide and a stiffer recoil spring. Although Glock managed to pull it off fairly successfully, you really can't just bore a bigger hole down the barrel of a 9mm and call it a .40.

 

[roscoe]

Cz40b?

 

[otomik]

Any others?

yes, one of your first indicators will be a magwell suited to .40 so that a fullsize gun has a capacity around 15 rounds rather than 12 or less. Smith and Wesson Sigma, M&P, Beretta Px4,

SIG P229

interesting design for the mags on that gun, backward compatible with P228 mags.

 

[ccmdfd]

HK P7M10.

cc

 

[fastpat]

The SIG P239 in .40 S&W is different than the same model in 9mm making it designed for the .40 caliber round.

 

[Ric]

S&W 410 and a 4013

 

[dscottw88]

Glock 22, Glock 23, Glock 27...

 

[Coronach]

Many of the latest generation of duty pistols are specifically designed for the .40, as opposed to being overbuilt 9mms, as was common for previous generations. The M&P, for instance, was designed first around the .40, with 9mm and .45 versions being follow-ons.

Mike

 

[PO2Hammer]

Glock 22, Glock 23, Glock 27...

Not really. I think he meant pistols designed from the ground up as .40's. In fact the Glock .40's are 9mm's that have been changed three or four times in order to handle the long term beating the .40's deliver.

Then they had to reinforce them again to deal with the .357sig. (longer frame rails).

I like Glocks in 9mm or 10mm, but not .40.

 

[Hauptmann]

Steyr M/M-1A pistol. Designed around the .40S&W initially, then modifications were made to chamber it in 9x19mm, 9x21mm, and .357sig.

http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg45-e.htm

 

[threefeathers]

The Sig 229, great gun.

 

[DiN_BLiX]

cz 40p?

 

[boomstik45]

HK USP, Sig 229, S&W M&P, CZ (they always do it right).

 

[Grayrock]

Is there a 1911 based .40 S&W version? If so, who makes it?

 

[BamBam-31]

You mean like a comp gun? Like STI?

 

[Sylvan-Forge]

Thanks for all the great input folks

I'm kind of surprised the Steyr M-A1 was designed for the .40 originally.
Pretty cool.


Grayrock, I think kimber and Para make a .40 cal. 1911

 

[dscottw88]

Oh haha, my apologies... Take the glocks off the list than, my apologies!

 

[ABBOBERG]

I thought all the pistols chambered in .40 were designed for .40.
If they weren't, they would not shoot .40.

I would think the only exception would be a company that could not afford a designer and would take a 9mm gun and then thin up the barrel and expand the magazine.
This would be very high risk on the manufacturers part since the barrel would now be significantly thinner, and be expected to handle the higher pressures of the .40 S&W.

The proper way to offer a .40 is to first thicken the chamber by the difference between 9mm and .40, and then add some more material for increased pressure. Then the slide needs to make room for the fatter barrel. Once built, proof tests and durability tests must be made. This requires design effort, so I am assuming that all guns that run .40 were designed for it!

 

[Martini13]

Walther's new PPS





Common Sense...The Rarest Of All Senses

 

[Lonestar49]

Beretta

...

Px4 40cal with rotating barrel and, IMHO, the gun speaks for itself..

100% reliable, forgiving in recoil, once the right grip is in place.


LS