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- From: nahst6+@pitt.edu (Nathan A Horstman)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Glock 10mm and CHP
- Message-ID: <2675@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 04:17:13 GMT
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- In article <MAILQUEUE-101.930126081318.288@english.as.ua.edu> DHORTON@ENGLISH.AS.UA.EDU (David A. Horton) writes:
- #I seem to recall that once the 10mm had been ruled out as a round due
- #to its heavy recoil and the 40 was accepted, the S&W 4006 that made
- #the 5000 round mark had a problem with a "creeping" firing pin. The
- #pin would work itself loose and had to be pushed back in with a
- #finger so testing could resume. While not ruled a product failure (
- #she kept on spitting out lead), it finally broke somewhere around
- #5200 rounds I think. Glock, as I understood it, had to scramble to
- #design a pistol capable of firing the 40 S&W and as such was
- #handicapped from a R&D perspective.
- #David A. Horton
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- I take it they use SW4006 now? Correct me if I'm wrong...
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- Nathan
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