6 Dead, Dying, and Soon To Be Obsolete Handgun Cartridges

.41 Mag I scored new brass & bullets to reload same years ago & have enough to last my shooting needs for my M57.

On .40/10mm just scored 1K FMJ 180 gr bullets on the weekend from a shooting buddy who got out of the ctgs recently.

Always good to stock up on components when/where available! :cool:

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rustynut1 said:
I just bought one in a Presentation Box. Pretty nice gun. Now I need brass and projectiles.
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I have never had difficulty sourcing .41 Mag brass. In fact, I am perpetually surprised at how easy it is to find.

Bullets may be a different story. I cast my own, and the only jacketed examples I have were picked up at pennies on the dollar when Wholesale Sports was dissolved.
 
If there was only 2 or 3 calibers in handguns, what excuse would you have to buy more handguns?
Not that I ever wanted a 40 cal.:confused:
 
.40 S&W is dying? Maybe for those who follow trends. Don't mean squat to me.

I've got brass, bullet molds, lead, primers and powder. How can it die? How can a cartridge that can throw 10 x 180 grains of lead at 1150 fps, out of a semi auto pistol, die?
 
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Except for the .357 Sig..i do not believe those other calibers will die. There is enough gun of those caliber around.
The .40 S&W might not be as popular as it was..but it’s far from dead.
The same people writing those ghost stories were predicting the passing of the 45 Colt, 44 Special, .38 special, 45/70, 30/06 and even .45 ACP.
In my book, this is just speculations. Not because it does not have the favour and colour of the day that those caliber are close to disappear.
 
Janeau said:
Except for the .357 Sig..i do not believe those other calibers will die. There is enough gun of those caliber around.
The .40 S&W might not be as popular as it was..but it’s far from dead.
The same people writing those ghost stories were predicting the passing of the 45 Colt, 44 Special, .38 special, 45/70, 30/06 and even .45 ACP.
In my book, this is just speculations. Not because it does not have the favour and colour of the day that those caliber are close to disappear.
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I think it depends on what measures you are using - is 40sw going to stop being produced anytime soon? Hell no, they still make stuff like 7.62 Nagant and 7.63 Mauser despite no pistols that I know of being chambered in either being made in damn near a century.

But is 40sw going to become less common now that LEOs are switching away from it? Will that drive prices up on ammo which will drive demand down on guns? Will the increase in popularity of the 10mm cut into 40sw's market share? All of those are distinct possibilities.
 
Myself I think the 40 is just about perfect. However since about 1849 Americans tend to prefer the smallest lethal package for daily use.
The energetic 40 cannot compete with those sub compact 9mms of the last dozen years. Much like 44 special someone is willing to buy them, so it won't become extinct.
 
marshall said:
People seem to think that the 32 ammo is prohibited, not the case, thee gun that uses the ammo is prohibited, with the target guns listed ( could did the list out, if some one wants it)
exempt for bullseye shooting. I don't think 32 rim, or rimless is stated in the act, but would have to did it out again to look.

Re The PPK , Russians never had it. The US army was there first and some solder picted it up and brought to the US.
Later Mr. Wright bought it from a US collector, He had a large German collection.
The collection was offered to the city when he passed, I am told and the city could not be bothered, Too much work? Value would be millions.
The city could have had it cheap.
So that pistol was sold , back to a US collector, And the collection was sold off
It was gold plated , engraved, at one time I seen the serial #, but forget, no question about the ownership of the gun .
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Do you have any source for that, any history text I've ever read says the pistol he killed himself with is long gone and no one knows where. Unless you are referring to one simply owned by Adolf Hitler and not the one used to shoot himself.
 
Of the six cartridges listed the only one I don't have a gun for is the 32 H&R magnum. I have lots of components for reloading all of them so "obsolete" isn't a term that bothers me much.
 
Craig0ry said:
Do you have any source for that, any history text I've ever read says the pistol he killed himself with is long gone and no one knows where. Unless you are referring to one simply owned by Adolf Hitler and not the one used to shoot himself.
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No I don't though I have seen info on it way back, and the pistol was on display.
I do not collect this stuff , although over the years I have dealt in some of it.
There was a good write up in local paper when the owner passed away.
"Sten Collector"? may know , as this is his wheel house, more than mine.
 
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