You can shoot 10mm or 40's with no changes.
Wow, that destroys what I thought I knew about how straight-walled, rimless pistol cartridges headspace.
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You can shoot 10mm or 40's with no changes.
You take it correctly. That's just another "You'll shoot your eye out" writeup.
Yes, the 40 is shorter than the 10 and in theory, the rimless cartridges headspace on the case mouth.
In reality, when the cartridge is stripped from the magazine it's caught under the extractor and headspaces on the extractor no matter what the chamber length is.
If by some miracle it drove the cartridge ahead of the extractor (Which has never happened to me) it wouldn't fire because there isn't enough firing pin protrusion to reach the primer.
There are some pistols that were made for multiple cartridges that used a double extractor for that very purpose.
I've only fired 800 or so 40's in my ten and about the same number of 45ACP's in my 460 Rowland...so yes it does work despite what the safety first folks say.
Now he is right that there is some freebore and the 40 is less accurate in the 10 chamber. The answer to that is seat the bullets a little further out or since the 40 is just a cheap plinking round to me....just ignore it.
The 40's cycle the 10 slide/spring just fine for me. Maybe the case isn't ejected quite as far, but it is ejected.
In the Rowland which is in a whole different power universe, I was getting a fair number of FTE and stovepipes so I dropped from a 22 pound spring, to a 20. Problem solved.
I can confirm the above as I have done it many times myself...
Aha! Just as I suspected--way too much free time.
Would you please put some of that time into shaving them hairy legs or finding trousers instead of shorts!]/b]
Aha! Just as I suspected--way too much free time.
Would you please put some of that time into shaving them hairy legs or finding trousers instead of shorts!
Why are you looking at his legs?:uhoh:
Why are you looking at his legs?:uhoh:
I planned on going there today to get a shotgun of the tactical persuasion! I was considering used until I saw this thread. I'm thinking Mossberg or Benelli! Any one want to meet me there and help me spend all my Washingtons?
When I walk, I occasionally look down for tripping hazards. At that point it becomes a sort of Medusa situation--what has been seen cannot be unseen.
Not going to lie. I just want to hear the sweet sweet sound of BOOM!....CHK...CHK.
there may be better reasons to choose a pump but there could be worse reasons.
I like pumps too and like Mossberg but just so you know, if you pump a Mossberg upside down, which is necessary at times, it will not feed right.
An 870 is a better gun.
Not going to lie. I just want to hear the sweet sweet sound of BOOM!....CHK...CHK.
there may be better reasons to choose a pump but there could be worse reasons.
That's supposed to be CHK...CHK...BOOM!
As often as that lie about the sound of a pump-action shotgun being so horrible that it will cause BGs to run away while spoiling their drawers, I have never, ever run across anything that confirms it. I had the opportunity to talk with a few inmates ended up being shot by a pump shotgun fired from the other side of the wall/door/window and not one of them said they heard the shotgun's pump action being racked. Trial transcripts showed that the racking of the shotgun was clearly, plainly, and repeatedly mentioned - usually in regards to demonstrating the evil, viscious, brazen criminal behavior of the defendant.
I invite anybody who actually believes that the sound of a pump shotgun being racked will scare away a BG to come stand outside my door while I rack my 870 from across the room. (I'll even allow folks you appoint there with me to ensure that the shotgun is not loaded and all I am doing is racking the action.)
stay safe.