Colt Delta Elite ?

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A close friend with some serious health issues has offered to sell me a Colt Delta Elite in 10mm and it has seen very little use.
I know very little about the round and am wondering if anyone out there has one, if so could you tell me if it is a good pistol and is the 10mm a good round to reload.
Its been a few years since I have shot the gun and if I recall it was a good, accurate shooter and not hard to handle.
I have 45 autos, but very little knowledge of the Delta Elite.

Any info will be gratefully appreciated.. :)
 
the FBI considered switching to the 10 mm but found the recoil was a bit too much. The .40 S&W is actually a shorter, under-powered version of the 10 mm. So keep that in mind.

but for the specific gun, I have no clue.
 
For a reloader the 10mm is one of the most flexible rounds available for an auto loader. High end 10mm rounds are very close to 41 Magnum territory, and the round can be loaded down to 40S&W levels. There was an issue with some early Delta Elites developing cracks from firing large amounts of full strength 10mm loads. Lot's of folks here would like a Colt Delta, what's not to like, 10mm power and stainless 1911 goodness.
 
I ordered a Colt Delta Elite.... while i've been waiting I have rounded up the parts to build some 10mm auto with ease. Lots of options and brass is easier to find than I had thought.

Now Arms East send that sick pistol already!!
 
Its a great pistol and a great round to reload. If your buddy is offering you a deal, take it, you won't regret it. If you don't, send him my way! :)
 
the cracking was only in the very early frames, basically right where the square cut out for popping the slide release free of the frame when disassembling.

I would not worry about it as at the time the common 10mm load was 200gr @ 1200fps.... nowadys most common 10mm factory loads is nothing more then a barely warm .40S&W load, mostly 180gr.

if concerned the remington green box seemed the mildest to me followed by the winchester white box.... the AE was average and at the time fiocchi made a great round as did hornady if you can find some of the original 200gr @ 1200fps loads.

run, don't jump into buying it.... if you plan on reloading brass is going to be the harder item to find, another option is talk to gunnar @ Armco or barry at bit of pieces and have a 40S&W barrel fitted and use a lighter recoil spring.

frankly I would keep it 10mm and shoot the first 1k of factory rounds... to get the brass. or order some starline stuff from mystic precision.
 
I've got one, and am sad to say it's been a year and a half and I still have no range report to file. I gotta start working a bit less :(.

It looks and feels real purdy tho, it's one of the new generation manufacture.
 
I had one, sold it and now I have another, not going to sell it this time. Ammo is a problem, can be hard to find. Get as much brass as you can and reload to your hearts content. I just bought over 900 rounds of brass off of the EE, so it around.
 
Just curious, is it the new version, or the original? I have one of the original blued version. It's kind of a classic, so I don't shoot it a whole lot. I put a full length rod and shock bumpers on it. I've been shooting 10mm for over 20 years, and it's the best auto round out there. Very accurate, and powerful enough for wilderness carry. I shoot my Glock 20 more these days, but I'd have to be very down and out to part with the Colt.

If the price is right, you'll never regret buying it.
 
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