It was called the .41 magnum.
It is, jkingrph. And, I'm really enthused about it.
Just a standard Delta Elite that I "snuck up on" brand new at a good price in a small gun shop in Goldthwaite, Texas back in February of this year. Great cartridge and great package. The Colt 10mm is a well-mannered pony. Ought to be great for handloading fun when I have some time to devote to it.
As original.
With one of the styles of Altamont stocks, customized by them with a pair of Delta Elite medallions I picked up off of Ebay and sent along to them. Altamont's great to work with!
Can't do rubber on guns. It's an offense to the eye. 10mm recoil's not as ferocious as internet gun forums sometimes claim, being about the same as as a good stout .45 ACP handload. This close-up shows detail and the true color and hue of the stocks.
Check it out. The new with the old. The brand new stainless Colt juxtaposed with a (probably) pre-WWII Brill holster. I toted this combination to town beneath a sport coat one morning recently. Best 1911 holster for use that I've ever seen. Wish someone made an exact recreation of it for I'm reluctant to make serious use of the original.
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Back to the topic at hand. I really don't care what the Raiders or everybody else chooses to believe in and chooses to carry. 9mm is a perfectly acceptable, if a bit of a ho-hum cartridge within the pecking order of genuinely suitable personal defense cartridges. Terminal ballistics aren't especially enhanced simply because the bullet is fired from a 9mm pistol. The Glock 19 is a reasonable choice as a compact pistol, even if it wasn't handed down at Mount Sinai as so many in internet-land seem to feel. If I am to carry an automatic pistol that size, it's too easy to tote pistols chambered for cartridges with larger bores and heavier bullets. It's not a huge deal just to pack a full-sized 1911 gun. That's what I mostly take along if I carry an automatic. I admire the .45 and its heavy bullets more than I admire "lots-a'-bullets."
There are cartridges out there that are everything the 9mm is cracked up to be, yet isn't. Both the .38 Super and .357 SIG come to mind. I've certainly not sampled each and every 9mm factory load out there, but my paltry chronograph tests indicate that it's tough to find 125 grain 9mm ammunition that is truly capable of cracking 1100 fps until one gets into the +P and +P+ boutique manufacturers' offerings.
9mm guns live here. I might investigate a CZ 75 BD I'm keen on as a potential future "toter." If carried it'll be loaded with one of the 147 grain offerings.
All this is fun to consider and pontificate about. What's humorous is that I most frequently carry any of several plain 'ol .38 Special revolvers, stoked with +P 158 grain lead SWC-HPs or its handloaded equivalent. So, I don't admire the 9mm, yet carry its revolver equivalent.
OkieStubble and his threads he begins here on Badger & Blade are great!
I have been enjoying these posts and have learned alot. You really old timers, sure do know your stuff...
Sigh...these young whipper snappers these days.
My boar bustin' bullets arrived today...I'll sight in the old Blackhawk (load one, skip one, load the rest like my old Colt SAA) and show you what us old timers can do. But at the distance it will be probably used at the sights wouldn't matter...just point and click. I hope I don't hear a click.
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I've wanted a 6 1/2 inch barreled one in blue since...forever.
But, back to Rob's original thread.
That's just more proof, though not any fault of the troops, that the military is still FUBAR.
Here's a friend of mine from West Yorkshire, England lighting off one of the H110/220 grain handloads in the Model 57 .41 Magnum. A happy accident snapping the photo happened to catch it.
I'll post the results of sighting in my boar bustin' loads in my Wild Hogs thread.
Maybe a Magnum thread is in order.
What do you think, Rob? You little whipper snapper.
