Social Loads For The 10mm Auto
Over at AllOutdoor Oleg blogs about his experience teaching a new shooter using a Kimber Eclipse II pistol chambered in 10mm ….
Recently, my friends and I taught a new shooter aged 17. In three hours, this slightly built girl went from shooting subsonic .22 from a suppressed pistol to ringing steel and knocking down small tree stumps at twenty paces with a Kimber in 10mm Auto. Watching her shoot this powerful gun with easy competency was fun. Shooting high-power loads from a subcompact Glock 29 I used to own gave me the memory of great torque and recoil, yet a teenage girl shot the same caliber with no great effort. How could that be? Curious about the increase of power from .22 subsonics to 10mm, I looked up the ballistics by brand and found something curious: the mighty 10 isn’t always as mighty as I remembered it.
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Why does she have two fingers in the trigger guard(lead off pic)???
The 10 has been catching on big time thanks to folks who pointed out its benefits and kept demanding ammo as well as gun choices. There is a lot to like and it's great the little lady can run one. The model 29 has more versatility than almost any gun out there and if you put a .22 slide on the Model 20 SF it is great fun. The barrels by KKM are first rate and interchanging the 10 with the .357 sig or even the .40 short and weak is worth while.