I have one of the first xd-40's.

I tried to get one of the HS-2000's, but there were none to be found anywhere at the time. 

Been a good gun.

Yeah, tariffs are gonna suck for everyone.  I understand with all the trade deals and stuff that screws us, why he's doing it. And I hope it helps turn things around, but it seems that we're pissing up a rope.  Every time a new president gets in, they undo all the progress of before.

But, it's gonna suck for all of us poor folks. 

As for buying powder locally, I have only a few ffl's in my town.  And none of them carries powder. If they do, it's stuff no one wants and sits on the shelf forever because they don't know really what they're ordering.

There is a new shop that's opened locally.  I keep meaning to stop in there, but haven't yet.

Very good.  Hopefully will see a larger influx once the search engines start seeing more traffic.

If I'm not mistaken, there are ways (or companies) who can automatically bump search results more towards the front.  if that's an option you're interested in.

After all, the more people know about it, the more are liable to join and participate.

And there seems to be a pretty sizable interest in 10mm right now.  Hope it takes off.

I have a 365.

Don't really like it much.

And I certainly don't think it's a $500 gun either.

mushy trigger and striker.  While I've never had a light strike in that gun, it's amazing that some of them haven't considering how lightly dimpled the brass is.  I've chambered 223 brass in AR's before that have left deeper indentations in the primer of some of those 9mm bullets.

Also noticed several times after getting the gun out of my pocket, the safety is off and the gun is ready to fire.

I really don't care for it to be honest.

I've been around a few 5.7's but never have fired one to the best of my recollection.  I always thought they were more akin to 22 magnum magnums 

I'm glad you were able to join the forum buddy.   

As we've talked about in emails, the magpul afg seems as though it would be comfortable and a pretty good choice. 

I'd wait to shoot it first to see what you thought about the sights.  They'll probably be OK at the distance you'll be shooting the gun.  Plus, the other advantage to irons is the batteries don't ever go dead on them. 

Unsure at the distances you'd be shooting, or the lighting around where you may be using it.  A red dot may help in very low/no light if you think you may be using the gun in that manner.

Myself, I'm just using a set of backup irons with a small 1.5x prism sight on my 10mm carbine since I don't see myself shooting long ranges with it. You already know that I don't get long shots so more magnification is a handicap for me.  Almost all of my guns these days if they have a scope on them, are all low power 1-4's and the like.

But I do like the 1.5x prism because it does have backup illumination for night on a small circle dot but the reticle is etched for use in the day like any traditional scope so no illumination needed for that.  They also offer 2, 3, and 4x prisms if you think you may need an occasional longer shot.  The modern prisms these days are not much larger than those 30mm red dots from just a few years ago so they don't take up much rail estate.

If it's going to be one of your first grab for bumps in the night.  Maybe a low/lumen light just for target ID, but I'm not sure if that's one of the guns that are earmarked for that purpose because like most of the guys here, you probably already have a dozen others that you've been relying on for that for decades.  I don't have a light on a woods gun or truck gun.  But that's just me.  Only the guns I'd grab in the middle of the night get lights.

Of course, ammo and mags are never a bad choice.  But since you already have the 10mm glock, I'm sure you have several to swap out between them. 

How does it shoot?

Just curious because everything I have seen from bear creek are luck of the draw.  Some have good experiences with them, some are just terrible if you look at their BBB rating.

One of my sons tried one of their uppers and even the replacement they sent was wrong.  So my opinion of them is dismal.

But if you got one of the good ones, it should do well. 

I've used the kaw valley 10oz buffer and a 308 caliber flat coil spring.  They do work.  And realistically, if you're already running a 9 oz buffer, adding another ounce probably isn't going to make a world of difference either.   If it were me, I'd just buy one of the AR10 flat coil springs first and see if you're happy with it.  If it does nothing else, the flat coil springs will still remove the sproing and some of the noise while adding some pressure to the rear of the bolt. 

If you load really hot though, they still eject the brass rather "enthusiastically" (lol).

The 308/AR10 caliber flat coil springs are being sold by different companies at the moment.  Strike Industries and Wilson Combat are generally less expensive flat coil springs than the Tubbs/Superior shooting brand if you're trying to save a few dollars.  I believe the tubbs springs are still better though.  But only marginally.

Which is much of the reason that I made my latest buffer to accept common 1911 springs so I could switch them out and tune it to the loads that I'm shooting.  I believe the 20, 22 and 24 pound springs would be the most common for 10mm caliber.  Though, some of the powder puff stuff that intentionally tries to download it into 40S&W subsonic pressures, you may need an 18 pound spring for that probably.  But I don't personally know anyone that are running loads like that in their carbines though.  Nor why the would, other than to try to impress the ladies at the gun range at how quiet their gun is but that's probably a whole different conversation.   

Tagging for interest.

Especially if you're going to start talking about 45smc.  I have a 45acp upper and some 308 brass.  But that's as far as I've gotten with that particular project.

Still not sure how many folks are making 10mm AR's these days given that so many companies are making factory built carbines right now, but since the forum went dark, I again changed my buffer layout and thought I'd share for any of you that may be going down that path.

I made it similar to how the armaspec stealth buffer is but obviously I had to make multiple changes to the design to work in a PCC.

For starters, my 10mm AR bolt (direct blowback) has a weight added to the rear of it.  This prevents the armaspec stealth buffer from being compatible at all with PCC bolts because there's no way for the buffer spring guide rod to protrude up inside the rear of the bolt as it cycles. So this would preclude me from using one of theirs even if I wanted to.

But since I am using a longer rifle length buffer tube, that gives me more room necessary for everything to work together.  Instead of the guide rod needing to protrude into the bolt, I made my guide rod so it only protrudes up into the longer buffer and doesn't need to fit inside of the rear of the bolt at all.

Here's a picture of how that looks while the buffer is fully compressed.  As you see, the front of the guide rod stays inside the buffer weight.



I made the buffer from 12L14 steel.  That grade of steel has lead added to the mix to not only make it easier to machine but is a little heavier as well.  This one was just short of 11 ounces.



I had initially considered using another standard AR buffer spring on the outside circumference of the zytel rod and the rear of the buffer and is the reason for the groove in it but so far haven't tried that yet though I may soon.  It would be nice to be able to tune it so the brass lazily ejects out the side and lands beside of my feet.



Combined with the longer stroke rifle buffer, and heavy spring, makes this really nice to shoot and also helps tame some of the recoil better too (compared to a carbine tube).

Speaking of the spring, I did something that I've never known any company doing for PCC's.  I made it with a 1/4" guide rod so I could use wilson combat 1911 flat coil springs to the various weights they offered so I could better tune the action to the load I was shooting.



I personally like how flat coil springs work because they last longer and don't over compress when they're all the way back and they come in weights from 12 pounds all the way up to 24 pounds. 

Since I only shoot the hottest handloads out of that gun, I'm currently using the 24 pound spring in my gun and it feels really nice to shoot.  It still ejects the empty cases out into low earth orbit and they land in the next zip code, but they typically land in a nice tight circle.  She's a little kitten on the muzzle rise though.  It's certainly a nice lightweight brush gun for sure.

I always crimp last.

Yeah, that's why I wanted the carbine. The one I made is light.  Makes for a dandy woods and brush gun.

The 10mm can really shine with a 16" barrel with the right powder and bullet choice. 

Realistically, I like the hardcast better due to the whole "two holes are better than one" that many don't get while using HP's, but if it's not broke.....

I know that the common consensus is fat and slow.  And I'm good with that.  Most of the time, I'm shooting 175 Lee (hard) cast or 180 gr jacketed.

But with that said, the load that I worked up for deer hunting in mind, I use the 155 gr because it is nothing short of amazing.  I'm using the no. 9 powder, 155 hornady xtp and in my gun (carbine barrel) and it's just impressive to me.

I'm getting around 1770 fps out of them.  That's a whopping 1078 foot pounds of energy.  That's more energy at the muzzle than a 223 at 2950 fps.

Also, I don't hunt long ranges.  Most of the shots that I would see are within 50'ish yards or less.  With any luck, half of that from my tree stand.  So I'm not worried as much about bullet drop or energy loss at long ranges.  The increased velocity and energy out of my barrel makes up for it in my opinion.

Compared to 180 gr bullets which can get around 1550 fps out of my barrel.  And 960 ftlbs of energy at the muzzle.  neither loads are wimpy or skimpy.

While some claim they'd never use less than 180 gr bullet to hunt with, realistically, that 155 bullet is only .057th of an ounce lighter.  Yep.  You read that right.  Well less than the weight of a modern dime.

If anyone would like to claim that an animal is really going to know the difference between the two, at the distances that I tend to shoot, that's going to be a very interesting conversation that we can have about it.

My camping loads are generally 175 gr hardcast though.  Mostly for big bears.  Big cats.  Sasquatch.  Haints.

Nice to see some old friends and the forum back.

Blowback generally tends to have more recoil.

However, if it's tuned properly, isn't as bad as some people make it out to be.  When I shoot PCC's, I generally shoot several hundred rounds at a time and enjoy every bit of it.