I almost came home with a MOS glock 20? But I'm a suckered for a wheelgun. Smith 686 was calling to me, and they had EXACTLY what I asked for and after some hard negotiating they agreed to a straight across swap. I think everybody is happy with the deal.

Gun is gone. Traded off. Full disclosure on issue. Still broke even.

Plenty pictures, can't get anything to post without file size error

I do handload, for every gun I own with the exception of rimfire. Shooting lighter loads is fine, and the brass doesn't swell nearly as bad.

I bought my Delta Elite this past fall. I didn't have much time to get used to it and I didn't find any legal rounds to hunt with when I got it, so I ran half a box of factory loads and reloaded those with Berry's plated 180s. I had a quick workup of the load and went to the woods opening morning with the delta in the holster and .270 over the shoulder.

At my hunting spot, my grandpas farm, I had nothing ready due to a very heavy workload. I was carrying a new hunting blind in with me to set up while out. So opening morning I show up early and head in. No quicker than I get out of the truck an hour and a half before sunrise I start seeing deer. I had a little 6 point yearling in the field and he wasn't running away so I go sit down and wait. I figure if nothing else he can go in the freezer if I don't see any does or bigger bucks, but deer in the field usually draws other deer to the field.

Skip forward until shooting light, my little buddy is still there. We are basically having a staring contest. His friends start coming out every few minutes until I have 6 small bucks in front of me. They are running, jumping, snacking, napping, playing, fighting, etc. Apparently I was in deer daycare. About 8 am things changed. A bigger buck came through and chased everybody out of the field. He came in fast, ran back and forth through the field at full speed a couple times, then disappeared behind me. So here I am...no deer in sight, no stand set up, no blind set up, nothing. I'm contemplating moving on to where I planned to hunt because I'm barely out of my grandpas back yard. I'm 30 ft off of a paved road in the edge of a cedar thicket that runs parallel to the road. While I'm trying to decide what to do I heard tapping on the road surface. Sounded a lot like horses when the Amish come through, then I see a brown blob. One of the little deer coming back to hang out with his buddies? Different deer late to the party? Then antlers...then big antlers are visible through the thicket. The deer lays down 10 yards to my right, and belly crawls through this thicket like he has done it a million times. I put the .270 down and pull the pistol. Cocked, aimed where I think he will come out. As he gets to the edge he sees me snd has and freezes for a second as he starts to panic. The hammer falls with this buck at 7 yards. He lunges forward and crosses in front of me at 5 yards. I get 2 more shots as he crosses. At 35 yards he slows down and staggers, turns towards the road and starts walking. Hunkered, slow, but still standing. I can't cross the road to retrieve the deer, so .270 comes up and the deer offers a quartering away shot. He lunges forward again but goes down in the row of pine trees separating the back yard from the field. I go tell my grandpa I got one and grab the truck to pick the deer up. My parents drive by and stop when they see me in the truck. So I tell a bit of a fib...small buck down, would be nice for a little help to load him. My dad and grandpa ask to hear the story so I explain the whole morning to them. Then we go pick the deer up. 119 inches of bone. Probably 250 pounds on the hoof. Approximately 80 pounds of meat in the freezer.

Now, I am a good shot. I don't brag, but I can shoot well, and I seem to do best under pressure. When I hang the deer to clean him I find 4 bullet holes in the chest. 2 nearly touching that hit heart, one slightly further back that got lungs, then the .270 which decimated everything in the chest.

Keep getting files I've errors so...here's the post that led me here. http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=798901

I bought a used Delta Elite, blued, 99% condition, no box or paperwork last fall. I got it for what I felt was a good enough deal at 750 out the door. I'm starting to regret ever laying eyes on it though as the unsupported chamber is making me very concerned about shooting it. I have about 125 rds through it now, but it is put away until I get some things figure out and/or fixed. The chamber is totally unsupported for the .251 inches from the face of the slide/face of casehead to the point where the ramped barrel contacts the case when in battery. It bulges badly with factory ammo, luckily I reload everything and I only bought factory loads to get useable brass from. Reloads running at 2/3 between start and max loads start showing slight swelling, factory loads bulge out to .441. I know I can load ammo that is safe to use, but to do so I am giving up a whole lot of room for power.

Pics below if I can figure out how to.

New guy here, sad to say but I'm not happy to find this site, but I'm hoping some folks can help straighten out my first Gen blued delta elite. I posted some pics on TheHighroad.com and was sent to you guys for better info and help. Unsupported chamber which I feel like you guys probably know all too well.

As a side note though, I love odd guns and odd cartridges, which is partly what brought me to the 10mmauto. I found the delta and fell in love which now seems to be heading towards divorce if I can't get comfortable with the gun being safe to use. I will go find the right place to dump the photos and description of my issues now.