45 acp vs 10mm rifle,
- Thread starter Jdiep
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Only downside I see over a 9mm for either is the ammo cost. I reload for 10mm , but I'm still hesitant on getting a Ruger 10mm PCC. Thats the biggest reason for me on not getting a Ruger 5.7X 28 PCC .
I could see 10mm being a really impressive round for a longer Bbl PCC if your chasing performance through reloading in a PCC platform over a 45 ACP.
I could see 10mm being a really impressive round for a longer Bbl PCC if your chasing performance through reloading in a PCC platform over a 45 ACP.
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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
10mm is way more fun to shoot than .45acp I find, but that’s just me, would pick the 10mm over .45 if I was buying a newer pcc. They’re both expensive to shoot if you don’t handload, if you don’t load I don’t know if they are worth it.
Assuming you're thinking about the incoming LC carbines? Depends on what you're gonna use it for. A 10mm carbine with hot hard cast/bonded loads would likely be a decent enough piece if you're tramping about in bear country. On the other hand, a .45 carbine doesn't really do anything better than a 9mm to justify it's cost/weight/mag availability penalty (.45 lc carbine comes in at the roughly the same weight as the 10mm, 7.1 lbs. Meanwhile the 5.7 one is 5.9 lbs and a PC Backpacker weighs in at 6.2 lbs.) Where I think a .45 would really shine is as a suppressor host, as .45 loads are usually subsonic (unfortunately a moot point for us). So if you're not already invested in .45, I'd go 10mm. Similar weight in a blowback platform, more power, and the only downside is more expensive training ammo.
A 12ga shotgun would likely be the same weight or lighter - 7.4lb for the LC in 10mm...
I have no love for 45acp, so I would go 10mm if I was picking between the two. But I'm pretty satisfied with 9mm for PCCs, anything else is too expensive to feed for me.
