With the FIB going back to the 9mm, departments nationwide have been dropping the .40 Short and Weak in droves.
I'd challenge that "most law enforcement departments today" assertion.
The Glock 20 10mm is the go-to pistol in Alaska today for bear defense. The only point of contention is which ammo to use. One side believes heavy slugs, like the Buffalo Bore 220 gr is the way to go. The other side believes a lightweight penetrating round like the Xtreme Penetrator 140 gr is the way to go. But only older bitter clingers believe a large-frame revolver is better.
Ya, as soon as you can find ammo again and stock up on about 5000 rds....10mm might be a good idea.
10mm is best millimeter.
The word is “Versatile”.
Eagerly awaiting my XDm OSP on 10mm.
Cooper intended the .10 to be equivalent to a .41 mag. If you can find any proper loadings, it is.
Proof again why American Shooting Urinal is the most worthless, most inept gun website in existence.
Before the FBI adopted the .40 S&W, they were issuing a single-stack 10mm, the S&W Model 1076. Urban myth notwithstanding, the FBI never issued anything close to Col. Cooper’s idea of a “proper” 10mm load, only the 10mm “FBI Lite” load. Plus the all-steel 1076 empty weighs 10 ounces more than a Glock 20 so the fairy tails about FBI agents being intimidated by the 10mm’s ‘ferocious’ recoil are just that: fairy tales.
The proof of that is that the replacement .40-cal that the FBI selected fired the exact same bullet at the exact same muzzle velocity (= the exact same free recoil impulse) in the S&W Model 1006, a pistol that was only two ounces lighter than the 10mm Auto S&W 1076 but also was a full 15 ounces heaver that the full-size .40 S&W Glock 23.
Got that? The .40 S&W pistol that the FBI replaced their original 10mm with generated exactly the same free recoil as the 10mm FBI Lite load had, and the all-steel Model 1006 was a biscuit short of a pound heavier than the full-size .40 S&W Glock.
A POUND HEAVIER! And how many Soy Boys have you heard proclaiming the “petite” G23 too much of a handful to shoot?
For instance he does not even mention the .45 colt for which Cor-Bon sells a load that is 300 gr, 1,300 fps and delivers 1125.58 energy...according to the Taylor scale, not the scale used by most sources in which velocity is squared.
Now one can argue all night about which is the proper way to calculate killing power, but by the Taylor scale the Cor-Bon load has the killing power of the .45-70 which is the indisputable top bear killer.
Buffalo Bore has many more big calibers for those man enough to hang on to them.
This is a very interesting link. It discusses this very subject. https://buffalobore.net/Trail&CampGuns.pdf
My point is not to argue about what to carry but to point out that the person who wrote the article apparently is not very well informed.
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