It is an amazing combination of rifle and cartridge. 0 recoil, fantastic accuracy and 243+ performance on game.
First group from the rifle with 87gr factory vmax. I ran 5 rounds in 11 seconds and stayed 1.25"@100.
I have a compact dagger frame and am waiting for the slide I want to go on sale. It is significantly more comfortable in the hand than any glock I have or had. The slightly wider grip allows my larger sized bear mitts to get a full purchase with my support hand. Other than the gen1 M&P style...
I would probably pass on this unless you are planning to run them in a rifle. There are a multitude of people here on ODT that are selling name brand 9mm ammo for ~$20-30 more than what this ammo would run you. I know $20 is not an amount to sneeze at, however that is a lot cheaper than $200 for...
I used them on my Winchester model 70 for 20+ years. Never shot a deer with them, but did target practice to stay in tune. I think they were a perfect solution when the days of QD mounts were not on everything. You drop a rifle, break the scope, still need to shoot in a hurry....bam, it works...
If I were only viewing EDC, then no. However I was simply comparing cartridge to cartridge in their over simplified generalities. For example a 3" 44mag in an older Taurus tracker or similar style gun will weigh comparably to the 10 in a full size 1911, will size comparably, will still have...
The 10 is a phenomenal cartridge on paper....however in real world applications it is a little anemic compared to something like a brenneke fed 12 gauge.
On a serious note, I think the 10's biggest short coming is it does not do enough different from the plethora or other cartridges available...