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What do you think about the 10mm? I've hankered after ones for years. Lately a few companies are making special runs of them. Dan Wesson made the "Razorback" for a while, they are scarce as drop-dead gorgeous 30 year old virgins in these parts, put looked interesting. Kimber is doing a Custom Target model. Supposedly you can get the Tanfoglio/EAA Witness in 10mm but I had a store try to order one and after six months got my deposit back. Glock makes 'em but I don't like Glocks (yeah, I know they are great, etc). Anyway seems like a pretty ideal round that combines the penetration of a magnum with the frontal area of .40 in an auto pistol round.

Pretty impressive. I had a custom 10mm barrel for a Thompson Center Contender back in the Bren Ten/Colt Delta Elite days, but never went beyond that. Essentially, they offer the ballistics of a .41 magnum load in a 5-inch barrel autopistol. I've never worked with one extensively [the large frame glocks don't fit my hand real well either, or I'd still have my old Glock 21- the 9mm/.40 frame versions work better for me, but a lady friend has kind of attached herself to the last of my ugly Glock sisters, a 9mm model 17.

I was in Beirut, Lebanon in the mid 1990s and observed and handled but didn't shoot an AK 47 that had been converted to a 10mm SMG. It had apparently been a status piece for a local gang leader who'd had a Colt Delta Ten. They got him with an RPG-7 in his limo. I don't expect he had deer hunting in mind for it, and they weren't legal for that in Indiana at that time, either.

I had a Delta Elite and an Auto Ordnance in 10mm. Sort of wish I still had them. I honestly could never tell they kicked any harder than the regular .45.

The Auto Ordinance was considerably better than their .45 of the same time period. Probably because they needed to be more careful with the construction. I think they had both cast slides and frames but still seemed fine.