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Old 08-20-2009, 07:23 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by skinnymofo View Post
everything i had heard about the gov and the 10mm was that they felt the 10mm over penetrated and thus circumsized it and made the bastard child 40cal by cutting the case length and thus powder.
I thought that the very reason that they wanted it was to give them extra penetration when shooting through things like car doors etc, and the reason they discontinued using it was that the recoil was preventing double tapping, or at least timely, accurate second shots. Also the frame cracks...
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