Pick up a box of Remington 10 mm from the sporting goods shelf. Read the back of the box. It says 180 grains at 1150 ft pers. Now take that box to the range, load it into your Glock 20 and run it across a chronograph. 950 maybe 980. Roughly 200 ft pers slower than what you paid for.
That’s not a manufacturing variance. That’s not a bad lot. That is the standard condition of factory 10mm ammunition from most major manufacturers in 2026. The box says 10 mm. The chronograph says 40 S and W. And you paid 10 mm prices for 40 caliber performance. Jeff Cooper’s original specification for the 10 mm auto was a 200 grain bullet at 1,000 ft pers. That’s 444 ft-lb.
a flat shooting 45 ACP with better trajectory. A medium velocity combat round. Norma loaded the first commercial 10 millm ammunition to 1,200 ft pers instead of 1,000, 50% hotter than Cooper asked for. Nobody told him until the rounds were shipping. That normal load is the origin of the full power 10 mil that Underwood and Buffalo Boar sell today.
Cooper never wanted it. When the Bureau adopted the 10 mm in the late 1980s, agents couldn’t qualify with the normal loads. Too much recoil. The bureau downloaded it to 950 ft pers with a 180 grain bullet. Smith and Wesson looked at the downloaded load and realized the reduced charge didn’t need the full length case.
They shortened it, called it the 40SW. The 40s SNW at 1,000 ft pers is closer to Cooper’s actual specification than any factory 10 mm on the shelf. The caliber everyone mocks as 40 short and weak is mathematically closer to what Jeff Cooper designed than the ammunition stamped with his cartridges name. And here’s where it gets worse.
Most major manufacturers never stopped downloading. They kept loading the 10 mm to roughly 40 S and W pressures in a longer case because it was cheaper to produce, easier on the gun, and nobody with a chronograph was checking. The average buyer reads 10 mm on the headstamp and assumes he’s getting full power. He’s not.
He’s getting the round the Bureau rejected in a case that’s too long for what’s inside it. Subscribe. A reloader who’s been loading his own 10 mm for over 17 years wrote five words about factory ammunition. I have never had faith. 17 years. That’s how long he’s known. He chronographs his own loads.
He knows exactly what his 10 mm does because he built it himself. He doesn’t trust factory ammunition because factory ammunition has been lying since 1,990. If you shoot factory 10 mm and you’ve never chronographed it, you don’t know what caliber you’re actually firing. You might be carrying a 40S and W in a larger gun with more recoil and less capacity than a Glock 23.
That’s not a value proposition. That’s a markup. Your 45 ACP doesn’t have this problem. Federal HST 230 grain is advertised at 830 ft pers. chronograph it 830 maybe 840 what you pay for is what you get been that way for 120 years nobody has a financial incentive to change it because the spec works and the pressure is low enough that there’s no reason to cut corners here’s the angle nobody in this debate addresses honestly and it should scare anyone carrying a 10 mm for home defense conducted a wall penetration study standard sheetrock panels spaced to
simulate interior walls. Every common defensive caliber fired from standard barrel lengths at 7 ft. With defensive hollow points, the 45 ACP went through at least six walls of sheetrock. Three interior walls consistent with 9 mm and 357 Magnum. The 10 mm went through over 10. 10 walls, five interior walls, almost double.
Think about what that means in your house at 3:00 in the morning. Every wall that bullet passes through is a wall between the threat and someone you love. The velocity that makes the 10 mm lethal against a grizzly makes it lethal against drywall. Same physics, different target, one you chose, one you didn’t. Inside a structure, the 10 mm is a liability.
The 45’s wider, heavier bullet sheds energy in barriers faster. does enough to the threat, doesn’t do too much to the walls behind it. Subscribe. Recoil. Not the which one kicks harder version of this conversation. This is about your second, third, and fourth shots. Because in a fight, you’re not firing once. A 45 ACP pushes. Slow rise.
The muzzle climbs gradually and the gun rolls back into the web of your hand. Predictable. The sights come back to where they started. Follow-ups land where you expect. Full power 10 mm snaps. The muzzle whips upward before the recoil spring finishes cycling. Your sight picture doesn’t just disrupt. It jumps.
And it doesn’t come back to the same place because the snap introduced rotation that the push didn’t. Slapped versus shoved. Both move you. One lets you recover. The other makes you chase the sights. For a first shot from a prepared position, it doesn’t matter. Both calibers are accurate on the first pull. For the third shot in 2 seconds under adrenaline, the 45’s push allows faster sight reacquisition than the 10 mm snap. That’s not an opinion.
time shooters of similar skill level on splits between the two calibers and the 45 produces tighter groups in rapid fire consistently. And the downloaded factory 10 mm, the one running at 40S and W velocities, it recoils closer to the 45 ACP because the velocity is lower. You paid 10 mm prices for 40 SNW ballistics, and you’re not even getting the recoil reduction that a purpose-built 40SW platform delivers.
A Glock 22 and 40S and W is lighter, slimmer, and holds the same number of rounds as a Glock 20 in downloaded 10 mm. The downloaded 10 mm is the worst version of both calibers simultaneously. Let’s talk money because this decides it for more people than any ballistic chart ever will subscribe.
A round of 45 ACP Federal American Eagle 230 grain costs roughly 30. A round of 10 mm Cellier and Bellot 180 grain costs roughly 45 50% more per trigger pull. over a year of practice at a 100 rounds per month. The 45 ACP costs roughly $360. The 10 millimeter costs roughly $540. That’s $180 more per year for ammunition that chronographs at the same velocity as a 40s and Wu, unless you’re buying the boutique loads.
The boutique loads, the ones that actually deliver full power 10 mm performance, cost 65 cents to a dollar per round. Underwood, Buffalo Boar, Double Tap. At a dollar a round, a 100 rounds of practice costs $100. Nobody practices at a dollar a round. You buy one box of 20, load your carry magazine, and shoot cheap stuff at the range, which means you’ve never actually fired the load you’re trusting your life to under rapid fire conditions.
You’ve practiced with downloaded ammunition, and you’re carrying full power ammunition you’ve never shot a full magazine of. And here’s the trap nobody talks about. Your 45 ACP training ammunition and your carry ammunition feel the same in the gun. 830 to 890 ft per second, regardless of what’s in the chamber. You practice with what you carry.
The 10 mm velocity window runs from 950 to 1,400 ft per second. Cheap range ammo at 950. Carry ammo at 1,200 or more. Those feel like two different guns. You’ve been training on a 40s and W and trusting your life to a magnum you’ve barely shot. One more thing, and this one’s personal. Jeff Cooper is the most influential combat pistol thinker of the 20th century, codified the modern technique, founded Gunite, championed the 1911 and 45 ACP for decades.
the loudest, most credible voice in the world, saying the .45 ACP was the gold standard for a fighting handgun. Then he designed a cartridge to replace it. Cooper didn’t hate the 45 ACP. He loved it. He wanted it to shoot flatter. He wanted better trajectory at 50 yards. He wanted a 45 caliber push with better ballistics.
So, he designed the 10 millimeter auto. That 45 push with better trajectory, medium velocity, 1,000 feet per second with a 200 grain bullet. Norma ruined it by loading it hot. The bureau ruined it by downloading it. Smith and Wesson ruined it by shortening the case. And the ammunition industry ruined it by selling downloaded rounds at full price for three decades.
Cooper spent his career championing the 45 ACP and then designed a replacement that the industry turned into something he never wanted. The cartridge bearing his vision was loaded wrong from day one, downloaded by every agency that adopted it and shortened into a caliber that became a punchline. The 45 ACP survived all of it.
The 10 mm went through three identity crises in its first decade and still hasn’t settled on what it wants to be. The boutique loaders say it’s a Magnum. The factory loaders say it’s a hot 40. The bears don’t care. And your chronograph knows the truth regardless of what the headstamp says. Subscribe. The verdict.
This time is different from the first video because the question is different last time. Which caliber performs better? Depended on application this time. Which caliber lies to you less? The 45 by a margin that isn’t close. What’s on the box is what’s in the gun. Walls stop it before it reaches the room you didn’t aim at. Range ammo and carry ammo feel identical because the velocity window is narrow.
You don’t need to spend a dollar a round to get the performance the headstamp promises. The 10 mm at its best is the better caliber, but its best costs three times the price. You never practice with it, and the factory version you actually carry is a 40S and W in a bigger case. At any price point, the 45 ACP is the more honest cartridge.
And in a market where the label on the box is the only information most buyers see, honesty is worth more than ballistics. If you carry a 10 mm and you’ve never chronographed your factory loads, buy a chronograph before you buy another box because the first number that the screen shows you is going to change how you think about everything in this video and everything in the last one. Subscribe.
10mm vs 45 ACP: The Biggest Lie in the Gun Industry (Part 2)
Pick up a box of Remington 10 mm from the sporting goods shelf. Read the back of the box. It says 180 grains at 1150 ft pers. Now take that box to the range, load it into your Glock 20 and run it across a chronograph. 950 maybe 980. Roughly 200 ft pers slower than what you paid for.
That’s not a manufacturing variance. That’s not a bad lot. That is the standard condition of factory 10mm ammunition from most major manufacturers in 2026. The box says 10 mm. The chronograph says 40 S and W. And you paid 10 mm prices for 40 caliber performance. Jeff Cooper’s original specification for the 10 mm auto was a 200 grain bullet at 1,000 ft pers. That’s 444 ft-lb.
a flat shooting 45 ACP with better trajectory. A medium velocity combat round. Norma loaded the first commercial 10 millm ammunition to 1,200 ft pers instead of 1,000, 50% hotter than Cooper asked for. Nobody told him until the rounds were shipping. That normal load is the origin of the full power 10 mil that Underwood and Buffalo Boar sell today.
Cooper never wanted it. When the Bureau adopted the 10 mm in the late 1980s, agents couldn’t qualify with the normal loads. Too much recoil. The bureau downloaded it to 950 ft pers with a 180 grain bullet. Smith and Wesson looked at the downloaded load and realized the reduced charge didn’t need the full length case.
They shortened it, called it the 40SW. The 40s SNW at 1,000 ft pers is closer to Cooper’s actual specification than any factory 10 mm on the shelf. The caliber everyone mocks as 40 short and weak is mathematically closer to what Jeff Cooper designed than the ammunition stamped with his cartridges name. And here’s where it gets worse.
Most major manufacturers never stopped downloading. They kept loading the 10 mm to roughly 40 S and W pressures in a longer case because it was cheaper to produce, easier on the gun, and nobody with a chronograph was checking. The average buyer reads 10 mm on the headstamp and assumes he’s getting full power. He’s not.
He’s getting the round the Bureau rejected in a case that’s too long for what’s inside it. Subscribe. A reloader who’s been loading his own 10 mm for over 17 years wrote five words about factory ammunition. I have never had faith. 17 years. That’s how long he’s known. He chronographs his own loads.
He knows exactly what his 10 mm does because he built it himself. He doesn’t trust factory ammunition because factory ammunition has been lying since 1,990. If you shoot factory 10 mm and you’ve never chronographed it, you don’t know what caliber you’re actually firing. You might be carrying a 40S and W in a larger gun with more recoil and less capacity than a Glock 23.
That’s not a value proposition. That’s a markup. Your 45 ACP doesn’t have this problem. Federal HST 230 grain is advertised at 830 ft pers. chronograph it 830 maybe 840 what you pay for is what you get been that way for 120 years nobody has a financial incentive to change it because the spec works and the pressure is low enough that there’s no reason to cut corners here’s the angle nobody in this debate addresses honestly and it should scare anyone carrying a 10 mm for home defense conducted a wall penetration study standard sheetrock panels spaced to
simulate interior walls. Every common defensive caliber fired from standard barrel lengths at 7 ft. With defensive hollow points, the 45 ACP went through at least six walls of sheetrock. Three interior walls consistent with 9 mm and 357 Magnum. The 10 mm went through over 10. 10 walls, five interior walls, almost double.
Think about what that means in your house at 3:00 in the morning. Every wall that bullet passes through is a wall between the threat and someone you love. The velocity that makes the 10 mm lethal against a grizzly makes it lethal against drywall. Same physics, different target, one you chose, one you didn’t. Inside a structure, the 10 mm is a liability.
The 45’s wider, heavier bullet sheds energy in barriers faster. does enough to the threat, doesn’t do too much to the walls behind it. Subscribe. Recoil. Not the which one kicks harder version of this conversation. This is about your second, third, and fourth shots. Because in a fight, you’re not firing once. A 45 ACP pushes. Slow rise.
The muzzle climbs gradually and the gun rolls back into the web of your hand. Predictable. The sights come back to where they started. Follow-ups land where you expect. Full power 10 mm snaps. The muzzle whips upward before the recoil spring finishes cycling. Your sight picture doesn’t just disrupt. It jumps.
And it doesn’t come back to the same place because the snap introduced rotation that the push didn’t. Slapped versus shoved. Both move you. One lets you recover. The other makes you chase the sights. For a first shot from a prepared position, it doesn’t matter. Both calibers are accurate on the first pull. For the third shot in 2 seconds under adrenaline, the 45’s push allows faster sight reacquisition than the 10 mm snap. That’s not an opinion.
time shooters of similar skill level on splits between the two calibers and the 45 produces tighter groups in rapid fire consistently. And the downloaded factory 10 mm, the one running at 40S and W velocities, it recoils closer to the 45 ACP because the velocity is lower. You paid 10 mm prices for 40 SNW ballistics, and you’re not even getting the recoil reduction that a purpose-built 40SW platform delivers.
A Glock 22 and 40S and W is lighter, slimmer, and holds the same number of rounds as a Glock 20 in downloaded 10 mm. The downloaded 10 mm is the worst version of both calibers simultaneously. Let’s talk money because this decides it for more people than any ballistic chart ever will subscribe.
A round of 45 ACP Federal American Eagle 230 grain costs roughly 30. A round of 10 mm Cellier and Bellot 180 grain costs roughly 45 50% more per trigger pull. over a year of practice at a 100 rounds per month. The 45 ACP costs roughly $360. The 10 millimeter costs roughly $540. That’s $180 more per year for ammunition that chronographs at the same velocity as a 40s and Wu, unless you’re buying the boutique loads.
The boutique loads, the ones that actually deliver full power 10 mm performance, cost 65 cents to a dollar per round. Underwood, Buffalo Boar, Double Tap. At a dollar a round, a 100 rounds of practice costs $100. Nobody practices at a dollar a round. You buy one box of 20, load your carry magazine, and shoot cheap stuff at the range, which means you’ve never actually fired the load you’re trusting your life to under rapid fire conditions.
You’ve practiced with downloaded ammunition, and you’re carrying full power ammunition you’ve never shot a full magazine of. And here’s the trap nobody talks about. Your 45 ACP training ammunition and your carry ammunition feel the same in the gun. 830 to 890 ft per second, regardless of what’s in the chamber. You practice with what you carry.
The 10 mm velocity window runs from 950 to 1,400 ft per second. Cheap range ammo at 950. Carry ammo at 1,200 or more. Those feel like two different guns. You’ve been training on a 40s and W and trusting your life to a magnum you’ve barely shot. One more thing, and this one’s personal. Jeff Cooper is the most influential combat pistol thinker of the 20th century, codified the modern technique, founded Gunite, championed the 1911 and 45 ACP for decades.
the loudest, most credible voice in the world, saying the .45 ACP was the gold standard for a fighting handgun. Then he designed a cartridge to replace it. Cooper didn’t hate the 45 ACP. He loved it. He wanted it to shoot flatter. He wanted better trajectory at 50 yards. He wanted a 45 caliber push with better ballistics.
So, he designed the 10 millimeter auto. That 45 push with better trajectory, medium velocity, 1,000 feet per second with a 200 grain bullet. Norma ruined it by loading it hot. The bureau ruined it by downloading it. Smith and Wesson ruined it by shortening the case. And the ammunition industry ruined it by selling downloaded rounds at full price for three decades.
Cooper spent his career championing the 45 ACP and then designed a replacement that the industry turned into something he never wanted. The cartridge bearing his vision was loaded wrong from day one, downloaded by every agency that adopted it and shortened into a caliber that became a punchline. The 45 ACP survived all of it.
The 10 mm went through three identity crises in its first decade and still hasn’t settled on what it wants to be. The boutique loaders say it’s a Magnum. The factory loaders say it’s a hot 40. The bears don’t care. And your chronograph knows the truth regardless of what the headstamp says. Subscribe. The verdict.
This time is different from the first video because the question is different last time. Which caliber performs better? Depended on application this time. Which caliber lies to you less? The 45 by a margin that isn’t close. What’s on the box is what’s in the gun. Walls stop it before it reaches the room you didn’t aim at. Range ammo and carry ammo feel identical because the velocity window is narrow.
You don’t need to spend a dollar a round to get the performance the headstamp promises. The 10 mm at its best is the better caliber, but its best costs three times the price. You never practice with it, and the factory version you actually carry is a 40S and W in a bigger case. At any price point, the 45 ACP is the more honest cartridge.
And in a market where the label on the box is the only information most buyers see, honesty is worth more than ballistics. If you carry a 10 mm and you’ve never chronographed your factory loads, buy a chronograph before you buy another box because the first number that the screen shows you is going to change how you think about everything in this video and everything in the last one. Subscribe.
10mm vs 45 ACP: The Biggest Lie in the Gun Industry (Part 2)
Pick up a box of Remington 10 mm from the sporting goods shelf. Read the back of the box. It says 180 grains at 1150 ft pers. Now take that box to the range, load it into your Glock 20 and run it across a chronograph. 950 maybe 980. Roughly 200 ft pers slower than what you paid for.
That’s not a manufacturing variance. That’s not a bad lot. That is the standard condition of factory 10mm ammunition from most major manufacturers in 2026. The box says 10 mm. The chronograph says 40 S and W. And you paid 10 mm prices for 40 caliber performance. Jeff Cooper’s original specification for the 10 mm auto was a 200 grain bullet at 1,000 ft pers. That’s 444 ft-lb.
a flat shooting 45 ACP with better trajectory. A medium velocity combat round. Norma loaded the first commercial 10 millm ammunition to 1,200 ft pers instead of 1,000, 50% hotter than Cooper asked for. Nobody told him until the rounds were shipping. That normal load is the origin of the full power 10 mil that Underwood and Buffalo Boar sell today.
Cooper never wanted it. When the Bureau adopted the 10 mm in the late 1980s, agents couldn’t qualify with the normal loads. Too much recoil. The bureau downloaded it to 950 ft pers with a 180 grain bullet. Smith and Wesson looked at the downloaded load and realized the reduced charge didn’t need the full length case.
They shortened it, called it the 40SW. The 40s SNW at 1,000 ft pers is closer to Cooper’s actual specification than any factory 10 mm on the shelf. The caliber everyone mocks as 40 short and weak is mathematically closer to what Jeff Cooper designed than the ammunition stamped with his cartridges name. And here’s where it gets worse.
Most major manufacturers never stopped downloading. They kept loading the 10 mm to roughly 40 S and W pressures in a longer case because it was cheaper to produce, easier on the gun, and nobody with a chronograph was checking. The average buyer reads 10 mm on the headstamp and assumes he’s getting full power. He’s not.
He’s getting the round the Bureau rejected in a case that’s too long for what’s inside it. Subscribe. A reloader who’s been loading his own 10 mm for over 17 years wrote five words about factory ammunition. I have never had faith. 17 years. That’s how long he’s known. He chronographs his own loads.
He knows exactly what his 10 mm does because he built it himself. He doesn’t trust factory ammunition because factory ammunition has been lying since 1,990. If you shoot factory 10 mm and you’ve never chronographed it, you don’t know what caliber you’re actually firing. You might be carrying a 40S and W in a larger gun with more recoil and less capacity than a Glock 23.
That’s not a value proposition. That’s a markup. Your 45 ACP doesn’t have this problem. Federal HST 230 grain is advertised at 830 ft pers. chronograph it 830 maybe 840 what you pay for is what you get been that way for 120 years nobody has a financial incentive to change it because the spec works and the pressure is low enough that there’s no reason to cut corners here’s the angle nobody in this debate addresses honestly and it should scare anyone carrying a 10 mm for home defense conducted a wall penetration study standard sheetrock panels spaced to
simulate interior walls. Every common defensive caliber fired from standard barrel lengths at 7 ft. With defensive hollow points, the 45 ACP went through at least six walls of sheetrock. Three interior walls consistent with 9 mm and 357 Magnum. The 10 mm went through over 10. 10 walls, five interior walls, almost double.
Think about what that means in your house at 3:00 in the morning. Every wall that bullet passes through is a wall between the threat and someone you love. The velocity that makes the 10 mm lethal against a grizzly makes it lethal against drywall. Same physics, different target, one you chose, one you didn’t. Inside a structure, the 10 mm is a liability.
The 45’s wider, heavier bullet sheds energy in barriers faster. does enough to the threat, doesn’t do too much to the walls behind it. Subscribe. Recoil. Not the which one kicks harder version of this conversation. This is about your second, third, and fourth shots. Because in a fight, you’re not firing once. A 45 ACP pushes. Slow rise.
The muzzle climbs gradually and the gun rolls back into the web of your hand. Predictable. The sights come back to where they started. Follow-ups land where you expect. Full power 10 mm snaps. The muzzle whips upward before the recoil spring finishes cycling. Your sight picture doesn’t just disrupt. It jumps.
And it doesn’t come back to the same place because the snap introduced rotation that the push didn’t. Slapped versus shoved. Both move you. One lets you recover. The other makes you chase the sights. For a first shot from a prepared position, it doesn’t matter. Both calibers are accurate on the first pull. For the third shot in 2 seconds under adrenaline, the 45’s push allows faster sight reacquisition than the 10 mm snap. That’s not an opinion.
time shooters of similar skill level on splits between the two calibers and the 45 produces tighter groups in rapid fire consistently. And the downloaded factory 10 mm, the one running at 40S and W velocities, it recoils closer to the 45 ACP because the velocity is lower. You paid 10 mm prices for 40 SNW ballistics, and you’re not even getting the recoil reduction that a purpose-built 40SW platform delivers.
A Glock 22 and 40S and W is lighter, slimmer, and holds the same number of rounds as a Glock 20 in downloaded 10 mm. The downloaded 10 mm is the worst version of both calibers simultaneously. Let’s talk money because this decides it for more people than any ballistic chart ever will subscribe.
A round of 45 ACP Federal American Eagle 230 grain costs roughly 30. A round of 10 mm Cellier and Bellot 180 grain costs roughly 45 50% more per trigger pull. over a year of practice at a 100 rounds per month. The 45 ACP costs roughly $360. The 10 millimeter costs roughly $540. That’s $180 more per year for ammunition that chronographs at the same velocity as a 40s and Wu, unless you’re buying the boutique loads.
The boutique loads, the ones that actually deliver full power 10 mm performance, cost 65 cents to a dollar per round. Underwood, Buffalo Boar, Double Tap. At a dollar a round, a 100 rounds of practice costs $100. Nobody practices at a dollar a round. You buy one box of 20, load your carry magazine, and shoot cheap stuff at the range, which means you’ve never actually fired the load you’re trusting your life to under rapid fire conditions.
You’ve practiced with downloaded ammunition, and you’re carrying full power ammunition you’ve never shot a full magazine of. And here’s the trap nobody talks about. Your 45 ACP training ammunition and your carry ammunition feel the same in the gun. 830 to 890 ft per second, regardless of what’s in the chamber. You practice with what you carry.
The 10 mm velocity window runs from 950 to 1,400 ft per second. Cheap range ammo at 950. Carry ammo at 1,200 or more. Those feel like two different guns. You’ve been training on a 40s and W and trusting your life to a magnum you’ve barely shot. One more thing, and this one’s personal. Jeff Cooper is the most influential combat pistol thinker of the 20th century, codified the modern technique, founded Gunite, championed the 1911 and 45 ACP for decades.
the loudest, most credible voice in the world, saying the .45 ACP was the gold standard for a fighting handgun. Then he designed a cartridge to replace it. Cooper didn’t hate the 45 ACP. He loved it. He wanted it to shoot flatter. He wanted better trajectory at 50 yards. He wanted a 45 caliber push with better ballistics.
So, he designed the 10 millimeter auto. That 45 push with better trajectory, medium velocity, 1,000 feet per second with a 200 grain bullet. Norma ruined it by loading it hot. The bureau ruined it by downloading it. Smith and Wesson ruined it by shortening the case. And the ammunition industry ruined it by selling downloaded rounds at full price for three decades.
Cooper spent his career championing the 45 ACP and then designed a replacement that the industry turned into something he never wanted. The cartridge bearing his vision was loaded wrong from day one, downloaded by every agency that adopted it and shortened into a caliber that became a punchline. The 45 ACP survived all of it.
The 10 mm went through three identity crises in its first decade and still hasn’t settled on what it wants to be. The boutique loaders say it’s a Magnum. The factory loaders say it’s a hot 40. The bears don’t care. And your chronograph knows the truth regardless of what the headstamp says. Subscribe. The verdict.
This time is different from the first video because the question is different last time. Which caliber performs better? Depended on application this time. Which caliber lies to you less? The 45 by a margin that isn’t close. What’s on the box is what’s in the gun. Walls stop it before it reaches the room you didn’t aim at. Range ammo and carry ammo feel identical because the velocity window is narrow.
You don’t need to spend a dollar a round to get the performance the headstamp promises. The 10 mm at its best is the better caliber, but its best costs three times the price. You never practice with it, and the factory version you actually carry is a 40S and W in a bigger case. At any price point, the 45 ACP is the more honest cartridge.
And in a market where the label on the box is the only information most buyers see, honesty is worth more than ballistics. If you carry a 10 mm and you’ve never chronographed your factory loads, buy a chronograph before you buy another box because the first number that the screen shows you is going to change how you think about everything in this video and everything in the last one. Subscribe.
