Quote from: CtYankee on June 11 2021 09:08:07 AM MDT
You cast the chamber, for bullet size you want the barrel (or with revolvers, the cylinder throat). Lead bullets should be .001-.002 larger than the barrel.

There you go!
You must slugg your barrel, there are some vidoes on youtube showing it and it is easy to be done.

Then you add .0015 or .002 to the measured dia of your slug, that´s the dia you want for your bullet.

Barrel dias are very different even with the exact same gun model.
You must find your own and can´t overtake others.

The bullets always have to be bigger as the barrel, because otherwise they would slip over the twist, get damaged, lose accuracy and will lead your barrel immediately.

No magic, simple physics.

What Candice Owens said, and what makes a lot of sense to me:

Those states who want defund the police are looking for chaos, want to raise crime and lose control, so that they can call the Feds to take over.

They take the rising numbers of murder etc. into account to be able to give the control to the Federal government.
Just one step on the road to communism.   

The reason for the cut-outs is mainly to loose weight at the slide.

Less recoil and "faster" cycling (whoever can make up to it).

That specific glock had other specialities I liked about it (KKM barrel, Truglo-sights, etc.), but I canceled buying it anyways.

Thanks and shout out to you guys.

Hey guys,
I could get a Glock 20 with a Wolf barrel which has slide cuts.

Would you say that slide cuts are a no-go for a hunting hand gun, or doesn´t it matter?

As I stated above, I want it as a backup gun, which means, I will carry a rifle as my main gun anyways.
So a Glock 40 is to much / to bulky to carry it also in my opinion.

But new infos and thoughts.

I´m German and have opened such a thread in an Austrian forum, you know, where the Glocks all come from.

There is a Austrian dealer / Doubleaction from Vienna, who said you can´t ride a Glock 20 or 21 with full house loads in general.
Those two pistols, with the heavy slides, will cause damages with high pressure rounds after a while.

He says (I try to translate): "The slide gets bend after a while, and then the loading indicator gets thrown out every second or third shot."

Without giving any opinion to that, I´m just reporting what he said.
 

And also getting used to the red dot.

I´m a IPSC shooter and RO, and when I see someone rotating his gun in front of his face after the "BEEP!", I know exactly that he is not used to his red dot.

That´s what I mean, when I say I have to get used to it.
Pull the gun, present it to the target and the dot has to be there.
That takes some training.

Sage Dynamics has a great video about that learning process on youtube.


But BTT:
I´m still hoping someone who has a EAA P Match Pro (polymer pistol with DA/SA) will join this party.
I´d really love to hear how durable and reliable it is.

I´m used to the CZ plattform and love it (had and still have a couple of them).
CZ offers no 10 over here, so the Tanfo would be my first choice I guess.
But No. 1 is reliability and durability as a hunting back-up gun, so if someone could bring in infos/experience about that it would be a blast.

Quote from: sep on May 11 2021 05:25:39 AM MDT
Hope this helps.                 

Thank you, this helps a lot, every info about this pistols does so for me.

I´m 53 in 2 weeks, wearing glasses since 10 years and now have problems far and near.
I still can see the irons pretty good, but I realize it is getting worse every year.
Shooting with red dots is a whole new story and I try slowly to get used to it.

May I ask you how big your hands are, and if you´ve ever handled a SF-version?

Yes, you are correct with the powders.
When I started reloading (after training and exame, because Germany, you know  ) I cruised a lot through American forums and the first years I´ve used many American powders.
But then, from time to time, there were always phases you couldn´t get those powders over here, so I switched completely to European powders.

Vithavuori is very popular and Lovex too, as being a bit on the cheap side.
I totally excluded Lovex, when I got disqualified at the German Championship because I didn´t make the factor.
Lovex is very inconsistent, you have to measure every bottle you get, so I dropped it completely several years ago. 

Reload Swiss came up a few years ago and it gains more and more popularity.
https://www.reload-swiss.com/en/reload_swiss/produkte/index.php

So, that´s what I use now, VV mostly for the handguns and RS mostly for rifles.

P.S.:
I do have the 4-cavity as well, man, that´s a heavy sucker.

Well, the Glock 40 being "big" it´s not the weight what I meant, this thing is just huuuuge.
How or where will you carry it?
It is the only one of those I can get, which has a OR-option, but I just don´t see me carrying it.

Some tritium nightsights or something like it will do the trick too in the beginning I guess.
(Am absolutely new to the red-dot-on-pistols-thingy, have mounted my first red dot on a Walther and am still not sure if I like it. Will have to train more with it I guess, but like I said, I´m not getting younger, so ...)
Otherwise I would have getting the slide milled.

So you say, the Glock is the most reliable of it, which makes me wonder, if there are owners of the XDM oder the EAA which can report about the reliability of there guns.

I like the look of the EAA.
I have two CZs and had one Tanfo, which I like quite a bit.
And I´m not sure, if the high bore axis of the XDM makes it a bit snappy.
I would have to order the EAA and reserve the XDM, which means I would have to buy them, even without being able to handle them before.

So my best bet is, that you guys can help me with your experience.   
 

Quote from: Kenk on May 10 2021 10:59:41 AM MDT
Welcome Jayjay1...Enjoy, there's much to be learned here

Ken

Thank you, I´m sure it is.

Quote from: The_Shadow on May 10 2021 10:55:14 AM MDT...
Do you have the freedom to handload ammo for yourself over there?  10mm can be a great cartridge to load at various power levels of perfoormance.

Best regards and enjoy the forum! 

Thank you for the welcome. 

Heck yeah, I´m a reloader for over 20 years now and will of course reload the - over here - very expensive 10mm for sure.   

I make my own bullets as well, mostly using Hitek, and am having a Lyman .401"/175gr. mold on hands.
https://www.precisionreloading.com/cart.php#!l=LY&i=2670638 

I´ve used it in my .40S&W years ago, loading for IPSC.

But before, and that´s why I´m here, I have to find me a pistol, which can take me over half a year of waiting after ordering it.   

Hello guys,
I´m from Germany and want a 10mm pistol as a back-up gun for hunting.

10mm Autos are very rare over here and so the market is small for them.

For carrying it, weight is a thing (not the only one, but it counts) and so I thought I want a polymer-gun.

All I can get is:

- Glock 20 Gen 4
- Glock 40 Gen 4
- Glock 40 Gen 4 M.O.S.
- XD-M 10mm 4.5" (no OR or Elite, actually the importer says he has only 2 of them left, all others are 9mm)
- EAA / Tanfo Witness P Match Pro (not sure yet, the importer says 50:50

Well, Glock would be the easiest for me to get, but please don´t hate me, I had two Glocks and they were ok, but I never became a fan.
I have medium hands and the Glocks are my emergency nails.

Getting older I begin to shoot lately with red dots and would love to have the option.
But only the Glock 40 would give me that and in my opinion (call me wrong) it is just to big to carry it as a back-up.

Well, comparing those pistols, which one would you take as a hunting back-up gun?

Hello dear American fellas,

cheers from the "old continent", South-Germany.

If seen my 50th spring some years ago and am a sport shooter for over three decades now.
I´ve started my hunter-training (training because Germany, you know) a couple weeks ago and want to make my exame (exame because Germany, you know  ) hopefully this year.

Because shooting for a while I know some and have rifles already, but wanted a back-up gun for search hunting and such.

A 10mm pistol will be my choice and by searching for infos about it (those are very rare over here), i found you guys and this board here.

Greets from over the pond,
we will read us.