The 10mm is kind of a "magnum" load for auto pistols, and in its full power loading is too powerful for most defensive scenarios. Its popularity has been limited because of its recoil, and because it is hard on guns. The FBI helped keep the 10mm alive by adopting it for its issue pi...
This caliber is a little bigger that .22 and also a little more powerful. It was designed in order to at least duplicate the performance of the .22. The truth is, there are just a few guns that can use this size of caliber. Also, it is a little more expensive. The great benefit ...
the cap to the powder chamber. In the final form of this mechanism, a hollow-nosed percussion hammer came down over the percussion cap, thus eliminating the danger of flying copper when the powder detonated. Percussion cap ignition was easily adapted to existing flintlock muskets and pistols. ...
Bullets fired from rifles, pistols, and machine guns can penetrate flesh and often create terrible wounds by “tumbling” when they hit a hard substance such as bone. Shell fragments—jagged pieces of metal formed by the explosion of a grenade or artillery projectile—can inflict substantial ...
the cap to the powder chamber. In the final form of this mechanism, a hollow-nosed percussion hammer came down over the percussion cap, thus eliminating the danger of flying copper when the powder detonated. Percussion cap ignition was easily adapted to existing flintlock muskets and pistols. ...
Power and performance also depend on the weight and shape of the bullet and its velocity. For instance, a .257 Weatherby—the name of the inventor of the rifle and the cartridge—is considerably more powerful than weapons with larger bore diameters such as the .30-30, because the Weatherby...