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Can I put a 40 barrel in my Delta 10 and shoot 40 cal bullets. I know why would I want to? The answer is I have thousands of 40 brass, so I was wondering if I put a 40 cal barrel I utilize all that brass, beside 10 mm brass is hard to come by now:(
 
Yup, no problem.

You may find feeding from 10mm mags dicey. You could have the barrel throated and load your ammo long, or you can get the proper 40 mags with the spacer at the back.
 
.40 S&W barrel for a Colt Delta would be cool

The trick is to find a "drop-in" barrel in .40 S&W that you can use and still maintain your Delta as a 10mm with the factory barrel... :eek: If you find a source for such a barrel, let me know... as I have a Colt Delta and find myself in the same situation as you. Access to literally thousands of fresh once fired .40 S&W brass...:cool:

And I can tell you from personal experience.... the .40 S&W ctg will feed fine from the factory Colt 10mm magazines... ;)
 
Cool I will be on the hunt now. How about the firing pin does it have to be changed, cause the 10 has large primers and the 40 small primers?
 
In my experience, some brands of ammo would not feed reliably. The issue was once the rim of the case left the feed lips, it would nosedive upwards and fail to chamber properly about 5% of the time. This was with CMC and Metalform mags.

In my gun, I just had Barrette throat it, and loaded 180 and 200 gr bullets to nearly 10mm length.
 
It's pretty viable, and makes a neat conversion. .40 barrels (good ones) without a ramp are hard to come by, so what I occasionally do is just turn a ramp off the .40 barrel in my lathe and fit the chamber mouth correctly to the frame. Works very well. I have had very few issues with .40 rounds in 10mm mags (even fairly short ones). I feel it's usually a feed ramp issue, assuming good quality mags.

Gunnar

www.armco-guns.com
 
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