Word from SHOT is the 10mm Colt Delta Elite is back!
Out this year with a bull barrel, FLGR, low profile three dot sights, and wood grips. It appears to be a Series 80 gun with an extended single sided thumb safety and the duck bill grip safety. More at the 1911 forum.
I also hear Colt has a DAO New Agent.....?!!!
I already have a DE...what if I don't want a bull barrel and wood grips?
ReplyDeleteThe improvements to the safeties are nice, though.
What I really want is a CZ-97 in 10mm
Quite a SHOT Show this year. The reintroduction of the Delta Elite, Ruger selling Mini-14 20 round mags to the common folk, the ressurrection of the 5mm Magnum Rimfire, Mossberg and Henry bringing out lever action .30-30s, and S&W bringing out large bore airweights.
ReplyDeleteSuddenly I am excited by this news!
ReplyDeleteBut then I realized the new Delta Elite will probably cost as much as a used one.
We don't need more new 10mm pistols, we need affordable 10mm ammunition! Heeyaah!
I want one!!! I had one back in the 1980's when they first came out. I like the idea of a bull barrel simply because I think it will hold up better to hot handloads.
ReplyDeleteThis is truly a good thing. My DGC and DE are two of my favorite pistols; I only own 45 ACP pistols because 10mm brass is pricy and gets lost easily. The 10mm is accurate, powerful and versatile; doing everything the 45 will do much better.
ReplyDeleteThe 10mm is a highly misunderstood pistol cartridge. I consider it the finest of the conventional handgun rounds available and the Delta series the best of the packages it comes in.
For a vaildation of the 10mm; no less an authority than Elmer Keith mentioned in his book "Sixguns" that a .40 caliber bullet of 180 - 200 grains in weight at approximatley 1200 FPS would make an ideal handgun round. That's a 10mm. Of course, Elmer wanted it in an N frame S&W wheelgun.
Nice information regarding 10mm ammunition.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing such a useful information.
Please keep it up.
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