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TL;DR: I bought a 10mm Glock 20 SF. Check out my pics.
So I've been thinking about 10mm ever since I started handloading. The round is appealing to me as a fun, fairly hard-hitting round then has a very high marginal savings when compared with factory, off the shelf ammunition.
As a non-exempt person, your 10mm choices are awfully limited. On roster choices, it's Glock or Kimber. Even if you wait around and try to PPT on of the "other tens," you pay the off-roster premium - which I really struggle with. I'm buying this as a shooter, not a display piece. If I felt there was something better, worth the premium, then I would consider it. But if the masses are any indication, the 10mm world loves the Glock.
This leads me to my choice: a Glock 20 SF. I'm not a huge Glock fan, honestly. They aren't much to look at, and every model pretty much looks the same. It is a tool that lacks much of the character of some other fine firearms. But they just run. It takes a lot to kill a Glock and especially with the 10mm round choice, I want a platform that could take a long-term beating of stout full-house loads.
I already own a G19 with some of the basic mods. In my case, it's a range toy that also serves double-duty as my HD. If I ever had to use it for defense, I wouldn't want to get into the trigger modification arguments. It has talon grips and dawson sights. That's it for that one.
I realize as I am typing this that I never took a picture in fully stock form. Oh well, I think by now everyone here knows what a stock Glock should look like. Now on to the fun stuff.
Step one was to add talon grips. Some people love 'em, some don't. I personally like having a strong purchase on the gun and feel the gen 3 stock grip is fairly slippery. Again, especially with full-power 10mm ammo, I want to hold on.
You hear members of this forum and others mention "glocked" brass or a "glock smile." While a certain looseness in the chamber support department can make for a reliable, fighting gun that Glocks are known to be, it also creates a chamber support issue for someone like myself who intends to re-use the brass many times. Even with certain tools to remove the glock smile, the case will never be as strong where the brass stretched. That's just a fact. Queue a lone wolf barrel. Better chamber support and the ability to run cast bullets, should I ever get the inclination. Not that this is a reason to get another barrel, but I think the black on silver look is pretty slick too.
To properly cycle and eat full-house 10mm loads, I need to address the recoil spring. You probably could just leave it alone, but the spring is fairly light. I don't need to beat up the slide of the gun unnecessarily, and my brass would fly into another zip code. I went with the stainless guide rod and a 24# spring from the lone wolf sight. Seems that many of the 10mm guys suggest either a 22# or 24#. No pics of that specifically, but it is installed in the pic above.
That's all for now. I just picked her up this past Monday and will get a chance to take her to the range first thing tomorrow morning. I've bought a couple boxes of underwood to run through and will also be working up a ladder of my own 10mm to test out. Here she is as she sits. You can see I really put that stock barrel to good use
.
More to come... I plan to address the sights, maybe some trigger parts, holster, accessories, etc. after I put some rounds through her! Also a range report to come over the weekend after I run 'er through the paces.
So I've been thinking about 10mm ever since I started handloading. The round is appealing to me as a fun, fairly hard-hitting round then has a very high marginal savings when compared with factory, off the shelf ammunition.
As a non-exempt person, your 10mm choices are awfully limited. On roster choices, it's Glock or Kimber. Even if you wait around and try to PPT on of the "other tens," you pay the off-roster premium - which I really struggle with. I'm buying this as a shooter, not a display piece. If I felt there was something better, worth the premium, then I would consider it. But if the masses are any indication, the 10mm world loves the Glock.
This leads me to my choice: a Glock 20 SF. I'm not a huge Glock fan, honestly. They aren't much to look at, and every model pretty much looks the same. It is a tool that lacks much of the character of some other fine firearms. But they just run. It takes a lot to kill a Glock and especially with the 10mm round choice, I want a platform that could take a long-term beating of stout full-house loads.
I already own a G19 with some of the basic mods. In my case, it's a range toy that also serves double-duty as my HD. If I ever had to use it for defense, I wouldn't want to get into the trigger modification arguments. It has talon grips and dawson sights. That's it for that one.
I realize as I am typing this that I never took a picture in fully stock form. Oh well, I think by now everyone here knows what a stock Glock should look like. Now on to the fun stuff.
Step one was to add talon grips. Some people love 'em, some don't. I personally like having a strong purchase on the gun and feel the gen 3 stock grip is fairly slippery. Again, especially with full-power 10mm ammo, I want to hold on.
You hear members of this forum and others mention "glocked" brass or a "glock smile." While a certain looseness in the chamber support department can make for a reliable, fighting gun that Glocks are known to be, it also creates a chamber support issue for someone like myself who intends to re-use the brass many times. Even with certain tools to remove the glock smile, the case will never be as strong where the brass stretched. That's just a fact. Queue a lone wolf barrel. Better chamber support and the ability to run cast bullets, should I ever get the inclination. Not that this is a reason to get another barrel, but I think the black on silver look is pretty slick too.
To properly cycle and eat full-house 10mm loads, I need to address the recoil spring. You probably could just leave it alone, but the spring is fairly light. I don't need to beat up the slide of the gun unnecessarily, and my brass would fly into another zip code. I went with the stainless guide rod and a 24# spring from the lone wolf sight. Seems that many of the 10mm guys suggest either a 22# or 24#. No pics of that specifically, but it is installed in the pic above.
That's all for now. I just picked her up this past Monday and will get a chance to take her to the range first thing tomorrow morning. I've bought a couple boxes of underwood to run through and will also be working up a ladder of my own 10mm to test out. Here she is as she sits. You can see I really put that stock barrel to good use
.
More to come... I plan to address the sights, maybe some trigger parts, holster, accessories, etc. after I put some rounds through her! Also a range report to come over the weekend after I run 'er through the paces.
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