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Top Federal 10mm Ammunition Loads
- Thread starter Mike H.
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HansGruber
Ronin
It’s nice to see loads with bullets actually designed for 10mm, and not just overdriven bullets designed for .40 S&W velocities.
If I was going to run a 10mm for defense, those HST loads would be my choice, hands down.
If I was going to run a 10mm for defense, those HST loads would be my choice, hands down.
The link for the swift A frame shows 1175 FPS.
Talyn
SAINT
The 10mm Auto, in its original "Norma" form, launched a 170gn JHP at 1,300fps and a 200gn JTC at 1,200fps.
From the Dornaus & Dixon 1984 Bren Ten catalog:
The Norma factory loaded 10mm Auto cartridge is a center fire, rimless, brass cased, straight walled, large caliber pistol cartridge. It measures 1.250 inches in overall length with the bullet measuring 10.16 (.40") millimeters in diameter. It uses a special Norma powder designed expressly for optimum muzzle velocity while maintaining safe chamber pressures, and uses a standard .210" diameter large pistol primer. The bullet is a copper alloy full jacket, lead core design, and has a truncated cone shape (Jacketed Truncated Cone or JTC). Bullet weight is 200 granis (13 grams practical). Out of a Norma 5" test barrel (the length of the Bren Ten barrel, full-sized models), muzzle velocity is 1200 feet per second, and produces a moderate average chamber pressure of 37,000 c.u.p. (copper units of pressure). Kinetic energy at the muzzle is 640 foot pounds. Relative Stopping Power on the Hatcher Scale is 72 (30 R.S.P. on the Cooper Short Form). The 10mm Auto moves the striking pendulum farther than the .45 ACP from the same distance, out of the same gun (the Bren Ten shoots both rounds). Because of the unique design of the Bren Ten, the 10mm Auto cartridge has the felt recoil of the .45 ACP 230 grain hardball round out of a Colt Government Model, yet it retains more kinetic energy at 100 yards than the .45 ACP has at the muzzle. The large bullet cross sectional density, along with the velocity and kinetic energy, combine to produce a truly effective cartridge. Ballistically, the closest comparable cartridge to the 10mm Auto is the .41 Magnum. The 10mm Auto cartridge has been designed and developed to be the optimum combat pistol cartridge.
I typically carry HST or XTP in 10mm myself.
BangBang
Professional
XTP in 10mm is a great round. For both 2 and 4 legged things.
CO conservative
Operator
Prefer the sig v crown in 10mm, 1250 fps. Also check out the “woodsman” by G9 research, 145 gr copper projectile 1450 fps
HansGruber
Ronin
Agreed; 180 or 200gr for quad, 155 for bi.
Took a nice doe at about 25 yards using a hard driven 200gr XTP out of a Glock 20 with a 6” ported KKM barrel quite a few years ago; first deer I took with an auto, in fact.