In 1998, the S&W revolver was reintroduced as the 610-1, then again in 2001 as the 610-2 which offered a distinctive unfluted cylinder and 4-inch barrel. Between 19, the first generation of 610s were limited to around 4,500, and featured 5- or 6½-inch barrels and fluted cylinders. Since producing their first 10mm handguns, S&W has been ahead of the game. Photo by Michael Anschuetz Third Time’s A Charm Like all recent Smith & Wesson revolver designs, the new Model 610-3 features a frame-mounted firing pin, as well as a transfer-bar safety. In extreme circumstances, the 10mm has successfully taken large and heavy game to include Africa’s Cape buffalo. In all cases, the bullets exited and achieved quick, ethical kills. I have also hunted a fair bit with the cartridge, taking few feral hogs and whitetail deer with it. I own two 10mms, both semiautomatics, and have tested several others. 41 Magnum (designed in 1964) was also intended to be a cartridge to give law enforcement officers more power, but it only found real success among the private sector. 41 Remington Magnum, and often with less barrel length. In terms of power, the 10mm nearly reaches the velocity of the.
The white-outline adjustable rear-blade sight is familiar and typical of the adjustable sights found on other Smith & Wesson sixguns. 40 S&W ammunition can be fired in 10mm revolvers, but moon clips are required for the cartridge to headspace properly. 40 S&W offspring, the 10mm uses large-pistol primers to ignite the larger powder charges used. 400-inch (10.17mm) bullets with current factory loads ranging in weight from 125 to 230 grains. Rimless 10mm cartridges can be single-loaded or charged using one of the three included steel moon clips. Today, the 10mm enjoys reasonable and growing popularity, and a number of firearm and ammunition firms are producing at least something for this cartridge. The 10mm teetered on obsolescence until other loads were developed for recreational shooters and hunters who embraced the round. Their efforts were soon abandoned for everything except submachine gun use (i.e., the HK MP5/10), as it became apparent that the cartridge was too powerful for many agents to master. The Bureau had been seeking out a more powerful cartridge, spending a considerable amount of resources doing so. It was standardized as a factory load by Norma in 1983 for the ill-fated Bren Ten pistol, and later adopted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1989.
40 G&A wildcat, a cartridge developed by staffers of this magazine in the early 1970s and first built on a shortened. The history of the 10mm is well-documented. It’s a stainless-steel revolver that first debuted in 1990. Among their newest offerings is the N-frame Model 610-3 chambered in the capable 10mm Automatic cartridge, and capable of firing the. Though sales slowed to a trickle in the 2000s, the revolver market is seeing a resurgence, and the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company is steadily reintroducing its legendary sixguns. Double-action (DA) Smith & Wesson (S&W) revolvers have been a mainstay of the shooting world for a century.