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If you were in the market for a 1911 in 10mm what would you buy? I like what I have heard about the Colt Delta Elite, and a couple of the Dan Wesson's. Any others?

It’s been said the Ruger is a good one, just saying.

Forgot about Ruger, I did hear they came out with a 10mm. Thanks viking.

I have had a Kimber for 16 years, like it alot.

I just picked up a Springfield TRP RMR long slide and it is an excellent build.

Have had 1911’s in 10mm from Ruger, Colt, Dan Wesson and STI (2011). Plan to be buying the Springer 6” TRP RMR in the next week to so.

I have had 1911 10ms in Sig, Kimber, RIA, Colt, Dan Wesson and just bought a Springfield RO Elite. The RIA sucked and the Kimber had a few issues. I have not tried a Ruger yet but imagine they would be good to go. I would rate the Dan Wesson at the top and then Springfield nd Sig

Only own a Kimber Target II. No longer made, but they did come out with a 6" Target this year. Mine is very very accurate. Shoots fast. Feeds well. Highly recommend the Kimber.

I don't think you can go wrong with any of them...just depends on how much you want to spend and what features you like...

If this is going to be a Target/Hunting/Plinking/Range gun then I would suggest an adjustable target sight. For carry/hoe defense the Novak night sights.

Some like a checkered front strap and other, like me, like smooth.

Colt I believe is the only maker that doesn't have a ramped barrel.

Some have the Colt style Series 80 firing pin safety some don't.

Then you have to decide on a 5 or 6" barrel...the new Kimber Stainless Target is a 6" target sighted, smooth front strap, no firing pin safety model that is a bargain at $900 street price...

I have a Kimber Stainless Target II, PARA-USA Elite LS Hunter (now the Remington Hunter) and a RIA Combat Commander. All will put rounds in very small groups...

Good luck with your search....

Bob

I just remembered, doesn’t Remington offer some too?

https://www.remington.com/handguns/model-1911-r1/1911-r1-10mm-hunter

that's one, at least.

I'd suggest reading this thread before buying the Ruger.

http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=265073

I read the thread and I don't think it would worry me much. Sounds like isolated incidences of tooling getting out of adjustment. We will never know of course, but all three guns reported could have had the parts made on the same day on the same machine/operator even if the guns themselves weren't completed in the same year..

I am a big 1911 fan, but if get a 10mm, it'll be an XDm 5.25.

That pistol feels like it was custom made for me.

As for the final outcome, it's too bad that the owner of the problem gun didn't ever try the simple solutions offered by 1911Tuner. Or if he did, he never reported it. I've followed his posts on a couple of forums, and it's rare that he doesn't have the fix.

He definitely knows 1911s .

I've had a post in the classifieds for a day now for a Delta elite post 2004 and no responses. Tells me a couple things, either everyone loves their Colt Delta's, or there are not a lot of them out there. Either way. I probably am going to have to pay up for one

I had a Kimber good shooter no issues with that one. I use a DW Bob for my carry, good weapon, installed all new parts recently including Bar-Sto barrel. I try to stay away from real Hot ammo with that one, have a Fusion 6" no issues there, accurate, dependable. Have an STI 2011, best shooter of the bunch, will handle anything I throw at it. My woods gun is a Sig P220. That one is a beast. Trigger not quite as good as the others but its accurate, dependable, easier by far to strip and clean, feeds everything, has a rail as does the Fusion. If I had to pick one, it would be tough to decide. If the STI had a rail it would be that one, but I guess if I didn't want to customize it and wanted it for just the woods it would be the Sig.

Nobody's ever gonna look at your Yaqui holster at the range and ask "Wow! Is that a Ruger?"

Get the Delta. You deserve it.

If you're not going to buy a Baer, Wilson Combat or Ed Brown, I'd go Dan Wesson all day everyday, I'm no pistolero, but I cant tell any difference in fit, function and accuracy from my DW 10mm and LB 45 ACP, both very tight well made arms.

Ruger Nightwatchmen, or Springfield TRP.

Check budsgunshop.com for a Delta Elite. I bought one from there a while back at a good price with fast delivery. I did try the Glock 20 and 20C before the Colt was purchased. The Colt is still here and the Glocks are long gone.

NICE! Congrats.

Searching gunbroker today, there were some nice looking optics ready Kimbers.

Once you have a pistol, you may find the Mech Tech carbine conversion to be lots of fun

I couldn’t stand it any more and have a Springfield TRP RMR headed my way.

BALLER!

Only because I qualify for LE/Mil and it’s about $500 less then Msrp. Grabagun.com will sell one to anyone for $1775 which isn’t much more then LE/mil.

To my eyes I prefer the rmr to sit into the slide for looks and extra protection which ruled out the g40. By the time I buy an LE G20, have it cut for rmr and refinished, buy the Trijicon RMR even at LE rate and add a barrel and trigger kit it’s pretty much same money as the TRP RMR. That and I’m really a 1911 fan.

I just have the cheap Ruger 1911 with adjustable sights in 10MM caliber. It goes bang.

I bought a TRP RMR 6” 10 days ago, one range trip and its already back at Springfield. I hope you have better luck. I checked it for feeding from both mags provided with the pistol and another mag from my Delta at home before I even attempted a range trip and I had an inkling something was wrong when it wouldn’t feed factory, Hornady 180 xtp, Amrscor 180 gr FMJ, Sig 180 gr FMJ’s. The rounds hung up, whether partially beginning to chamber but not fully or a slight nose dive. I stripped the pistol and checked extractor tension and it was perfect. I don't know if the feed ramp and chamber were out of spec, but I am disappointed for such an expensive piece. I have Colts, Rugers, and a Nighthawk, all in various sizes and chamberings for the 1911 platform and I have never had this issue. At the range I put 100 rounds through it and approx 80 of them required assistance in chambering properly. I am not saying its a piece of crap because stuff happens, and Springfield was easy and quick to work with given their lifetime warranty. I hope to have it back in a few weeks so I can run it properly. I hope it is an isolated issue and yours runs great.

Spent a ton on the 9mm Operator last year.....it hung up on be forever with the Remington bucket ammo. Pretty underwhelmed for a $1200 pistol. Gives me pause to cough up $1600 after taxes and shipping for the 6" 10mm Operator.

That's why I am gonna opt for the XDm in 10mm and upgrade to Powder River trigger and beat the hell out of it for $800 all done

I've owned a few. The Colt Deltas will feed anything, out of any mag, IME. But you can't load as heavy with a non-ramped barrel.

The Kimber needed tuning, but runs okay now. Les Baer is making them again. If money is no object that's my choice, or a Nighthawk. Below that, a DW Silverback.

I did buy a Sig P220 SAO in 10mm, and was underwhelmed with it. Available grips are too big, limited selection of magazines, and trigger was not that great.

Grocks?

I have two EAA Witnesses, but my first 1911 in 10mm is a RIA, haven't [bleep] it much yet, but I like it.

Mike

Nice.

Here's mine:

Nice! Have you shot it much? Any full house loads>

Congrats on a VERY nice Delta Elite. I often wish that I had purchased one much earlier than I did.

I ran about 200 standard fmj loads in mine to break the gun in. Since then I've run various Georgia Arms full power loads, Federal Premium Trophy Bonded 180 JSP, Double Tap 200 gr hardcast, Double Tap 135 JHP, Winchester 175 ST, Hornady 155 and 200 XTP HP, El Dorado Starfire 180 JHP and Underwood 140 gr Extreme Penetrator. My primary use for this firearm is for carry in the woods at camp.

Currently shooting 10 in Glock, Delta, Kimber and RIA 16.

Might be interesting to you.

After reading the rugerforum post

The ruger and ria have tapered cone barrels and the others fit with barrel bushings.

Back in the days when action shooters were making major caliber with 40s using tapered cone compensators.
This included non ramped and ramped barrels.
Usually 200 gr bullets were used

many lugs were sheared at various locations

thought to be from the torque, because in variations in the lockup between the cone and the slide opening for the barrel.

other sources blamed the barrel material and manufacture.

I had a Springfield comp die this way.


Currently watching the ria , no trouble yet.

as a side note ria shoots to the left

Forgot to add

no pics.

theres some good material on the net if you want to search and see pics.

https://forums.1911forum.com/showthread.php?t=973758

Probably bad ammo but that is why I like the 1911 over the Glock...with the Glock the frame would have probably split... Even with the unsupported chamber of the Delta only minor damage...

+1

A man needs good tools that he's proud of.


They also hold their value more than all the others.

Untold thousands, never kept count. Full house means different things to different people but let's say I've tested the limits of the design. Broke one extractor.

SOTG, that's a beauty! Liking that oversize safety. Lefty here.

Thank you LD.

Lefty here too, can work around about anything but the safety. Trigger finger works the slide and mag releases just fine.

Speaking of 1911 10mm's, I shot a big old wild black boar at 534 yards yesterday morning with my heavy 300 win from the back porch, he made the 15 yards into the thick brush, I put my DW 10mm stoked with 200gr XTP's in my pocket and headed up to find him, I parked the 4 wheeler and walked the last hundred yards up to where he was hit so I could hear, i went into the thick pines, mud and down steep bank, there he lay, it was a rainy, windy crappy morning, I felt plenty well equipped with that 10mm going into a chitty muddy thicket with what may have been a still alive and pissed off boar.

Handled a 10mm SR1911 yesterday after examining an XDM in 10mm (sadly, the XDM won't work for me with my hand issue,, and I thought of this thread. Which prompted me to review the linked rugerforum thread. It strikes me that an awful lot of guys seem to think that a heavier recoil spring is a potential cure for a host of feed problems in a 1911. But that's a subject for another thread.

While considering a 10mm for myself, I'm apparently limited to one with a single stack mag and slim grip, such as the 1911. What other pistol fits that description?

To me, my EAA Witness pistols compare well with a 1911.

Mike Holmes

FreeMe...only other one I can think of the SIG P220...have not handled one for a long time so not sure how much bigger around than a 1911 is...

That said, what's wrong with a good 1911....lots of them out there from $500 RIAs to $4K Nighthawks...

Thanks for the response, RJM. Nothing wrong with a good 1911 at all, and it's also what I'm most familiar with outside of DA revolvers and the Kahr. It's been years since I handled a Sig 220, and I honestly don't remember what I thought of it. I'll have to check that out. Pretty likely I'll go with a 1911 though.

I have a Sig P220 in .45 ACP that I like well enough I'd really like one in 10mm!

Mike Holmes