Had my annual guns/food/ booze trip over that last few days, and it seems everyone showed up with at least one 10mm. Here are the contestants:
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Too to bottom: RIA commander sized 1911, my EAA Witness full size, Hi-Point, RIA full-size 1911, Kimber Stainless Target, S&W 610 6”
We shot the snot out of them from 5-85 yards and just had a blast. I ended up benching them all at about 15 yards with the old Ultramax ammo, and tried shooting groups. Here is the outcome:
RIA Commander 1911-
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This one hit a bit low for me, but was a great handling and solid little gun. Great trigger.
EAA Witness-
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My personal 10. It’s a CZ copy, so I am very used to the platform. Heavy, but soft shooting. I’ve shot better groups with this gun, so I was a bit suspect of the ammo at this point, but it could have been me after a bit of the previous nights overindulgence affecting my groups.
And the one we all wanted to try… Hi-Point 10mm:
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This is a sub $200 10mm. It did not jam on me, but the owner had a bunch of stoppages. Big, clunky, a spectacularly unpredictable trigger, gritty slide, and you could feel the slide slowly chunk along when shooting. Vertical stringing of the shots, and the sights were horrid. But… it’s a sub $200 10mm.
RIA full-size-
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I was surprised at the group here. This was the first 6 shots from the gun. Great sights and trigger, and I was really impressed by this one. After this, I was able to ring steel with it at 70 yards offhand.
Kimber Stainless Target-
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This one scattered the shots. It’s my brother’s gun, so I’ve shot it before, And know it can do better. I’ll blame it not liking the old bargain bin ammo. But it has a good trigger and great sights, and is just a smooth working gun.
S&W 610-
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Star of the show. Big, light recoiling, outstanding SA trigger, decent sights, and… it’s an N-frame smith in 10mm! Decent group with crap ammo, then I proceeded to the steel at 80 yards and only missed it twice out of 6 rounds offhand. This one is my brother’s gun as well, and he is going to try and get a deer with it this year. Everyone enjoyed this one and by brother had 2 people offer to buy it off him.
Highlights from the rest of the trip:
-Shooting a 93 year old Swiss K31 for the first time and ringing steel at 300 yards three times in a row with iron sights.
-Henry Frontier .22 suppressed with subsonic rounds. Just stupid quiet. And giggle fun shooting steel at 100 yards.
-connecting on steel at 620 yards with a bunch of different guns, most of them being not-really-made-for-long-range. I was able to hit repeatedly with the PSA KS-47 with cheap spam-can ammo with a 3-9x Primary arms scope, and several LPVO equipped ARs using cheap 55 grain bulk ammo.
-Hard drive “data deletion with 1pound tannerite blasts. It’s pretty amazing how high in the air a hard drive will fly
-Global Ordinance “can launcher” upper. It’s just a hoot.
To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
AKA ‘Admin’
