Posted: 6/21/2010 8:02:02 PM EDT
| I am trying to choose a load for my Glock 10mm and noticed Buffalo Bore has some hot stuff. Since it is a Glock I am stuck with the 180gr HP. This pistol is just a back-up woods and camp gun if I dont have my rifle. Will the 180gr Buffalo Bore be a good choice or should I go with another brand? |
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Doubletap has a 230-grain hardcast wide flat nose gas - checked bullet that comes out at a claimed 1120 fps from a G20. That's what I use for woods carry. ETA - It's a nonjacketed lead bullet, so you should get an aftermarket barrel. I use a 6" LW noncomped barrel. I've seen posts here and elsewhere that DT's quality and service have recently gone down, but I've had no problems myself. |
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There was a big discussion on the 10mm forum about the Hot rodded 10mm ammo and most people that were testing the bullets were finding bullet failure in the majority of the hot loaded ammo. Several of the guys on that site were reporting that most of the bullets would have sever jacket seperation and poor penetration. The general consensus was that the bullets that are being loaded into 10mm now days are meant for .40S&W and can not handle the higher velocities of the 10mm. They are designed to expand at lower velocities and end up failing in the 10mm. One of the guys tested many different rounds and posted that the 175gr Winchester Silvertip performed just as good or better in some cases than several of the hot loaded rounds. That load has been around since the 10mm and the bullet was designed for the 10mm velocities. Now the bullets that exceeded the Winchester load were from Double Tap and they were the 200gr XTP load as well as the 180gr controled expansion. If you had a aftermarket barrel I would recommend Double Taps 200gr. Hard Cast. It out performs their 230gr. bullet but we won't get into cast.
My personal experience with my handloaded 200gr XTP and the Factory Winchester load were pretty good. The Winchester load penetrated well in wet phone book and held together. The XTP of course out performed the factory load but I was also pushing them a little harder so it isn't exactly a fair comparison. The Winchester ammo actually performed pretty darn good in my opinion. Would I feel comfortable using it as a defensive load against animals? If I couldn't use my personal loads, then yes I would feel comfortable using them. My suggestion to you would be to buy a few different types of ammo and shoot them through your pistol. Make sure your pistol will digest the rounds without any malfunctions. I would then buy which one you feel the most comfortable with. If it happens to be the plain jane Winchester silvertips than so be it. |