crestoncowboy
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and factory 10MM is watered down to almost 40 S&W speeds.
Some is, no doubt. But it's far less of an issue than it was 10 years ago. Ammo makers have let speeds creep back up. It wasn't uncommon to see 180s running 1050 fps 10-20 years ago now most if not all of it is over 1200 at least. Now that was some bs back then. I bought 10s of thousands of them simply because they used good brass and I could get them cheaper than I could buy Brass/Bullets and primers. I still use brass I got from Georgia arms and BVAC (before they started using armscorp) 20 +years ago. At the time winchester Silvertips (or talons) or a left over box of norma was the only way to get anything close to a 10mm round without handloading. I dont know if buffalo bore was around back then but I'm almost positive double tap nor Underwood was. Even if they were it was pre internet for the most part and it wasn't in the big cabelas catalogs so I never heard of it.
The funniest thing about it, and it goes to show how much gossip plays a role in perception, is that even 10-20 years ago I could hand people a little Glock 22 with 180s running 1000fps and a Glock 20 or 29 with 180s running 1000fps and they would talk about how stout a 10mm is and how recoil was worse than their choice of carry. Even though the big fat heavy slide and mass of the gun actually should have tamed the round even further than the 40.
I like the 10mm as a hunting round. If big thick coats are an issue I might carry the 10mm but I'm just fine with my 40/357sig. I have 9mms, 40s, 357 sig, 10mm and 45. I would feel no less protected with any of them. I have others like 5.7, 25, 380, 22 etc that I do feel is a good bit of a trade off but among the others mentioned I dont think there is a wrong one nor do I think there is enough trade off in any direction to matter