Just wondering if anyone hunts with a 10mm auto, with what if any success. I shoot mainly .45 acps, but not for hunting. The Glock 20 looks interesting to me.

If you can find a decent bullet, I say go for it. The 10 MM is ballistically very similar to the 41 magnum, and that is quite a handgun round.


Good luck!

If you don't reload, Double Tap ammo (www.doubletapammo.com) has some good heavy hardcast loads for the 10mm that should work really well -- as long as the gun will feed them.

I too like the G20.

I have an EAA Witness Elite in 10mm. I use Montana 200grain hard cast bullets. Haven't killed anything (yet) with it. There are jacketed flat points available from 165 grains on up to 200 grains.
Peter.

Well, I hand load and make my own bullets, so that's not an issue. My friend Rick Jamison of 'Shooting Times' magazine tells me he uses one for wild hogs and really likes it. Just want to hear other opinions on the round for hunting.

I have a Glock 20 and a Kimber Target both in 10mm Auto as well as a S&W 610 10mm revolver. I run 200 grain FMJ or CMJ handloads through all of them at 1150 to 1175 fps velocities. I haven't shot anything other than paper and steel targets with any of them though. There were several sage rats who threatened to flank my varmint position, but they hardly count.

I am pretty sure a 1250 fps 180 grain or a 1150 fps 200 grain 10mm on a broadside shot will shoot straight through a deer inside 50 yards. I have read plenty of people's stories of doing exactly that. Either of those book source loads had at least 500 foot pounds of energy at the 50 yard mark when I ran the ballistics.

i USED to hunt with an EAA witness compact 10mm wonderfinish .. wickedly accurate, and, for full house loads, nice recoil .. i could head shoot pigs at 30-35 yards ...

COULD

until the day my wonderful wife shot it...
"can iah shuut yoh big ole guhn?"
and that was the end of it being MY gun.

and now I am hunting with a SW 625 mountain gun!

The factory Glock 10mm is a fine place to go with the 10mm Auto. They are light enough to carry easily, and you can stuff 15 rounds in a Glock 20 magazine. My factory 20's barrel has been decently accurate and its feeding is flawlessly reliable. The Glock 10mm has needed more attention when it came to reloading than any other 10mm I have though.

After having done it now myself and also reading a good deal on Glocks, I would say that you will want to get yourself an aftermarket barrel right away if you want to reload it. My stock barrel's chamber stretched the brass just above the web much more than my other 10mm chambers do, and from what I learned this is expected. The net result was I starting segregating and replacing the brass after almost each load until I bought an aftermarket barrel.

It is pretty to segregate Glock 10mm brass as the brass gets visibly bulged after each firing. It actually takes a bit of effort on my Dillon 550 handle to size it back down. The thought of all that sizing working the brass each time scared me out of wanting to save the brass. I really didn't want a case sidewall giving out at 37.5k psi (SAAMI max). After a couple bags of brass I bought a factory length KKM stainless steel drop-in barrel with a tighter chamber. Everything since then has been fine and the brass lasts as you might expect from a high pressure pistol load.

If I were to do it over I might get an 6" aftermarket barrel instead of the standard 4.6" length to gain a little bit of velocity. Something to think about since you were asking about hunting with it. The extra bit of barrel will get you the original Norma 10mm load performance of a 200 grain bullet @ 1200 fps but stay within the various current loading book maximum loads.

Hmm, you have given me something to consider. I may need to rethink the Glock in that case. Not really interested in having to purchase an extra barrel. I appreciate your comments and it makes sense.