General GunTuber thread

[Lupo Akane]

I have a soft spot in my heart for .40, my dad got me an old taurus pt 100 lol. Damn thing was made on Dec 1 1991 but it still works fine to this day.

 

[DocAwe]

I have one .40, it might be a G23.
It also may currently have a 9m dagger upper on it right now.
Nothing wrong with .40, the 2 main advantages of 9mm that I can think of are capacity & price.
You can usually get .40 when everyone spergs out and 9/45 is nowhere to be found.
I think one of the advantages to owning a popular pistol in 40S&W is you basically just swap barrel and can shoot 3 different calibers. (9mm, .40 S&W, .357 SIG)
.40 isn't dying and won't be for a long time.

 

[Yours Truly 2095]

Duelist1954 is a based boomer. He can chew my bare balls any day.

Also the level of autism about making good black powder in Like Fire and Powder is amazing (by Brett Gibbons of the Paper Cartridges channel). GOEX fans on suicide watch.

Always happy to see Duelist mentioned, he's kinda around my area. Gave me some advice on a shop before in comments, very based. I'd suggest CapandBall too. Comfy hungarian black powder goodness

 

[WhoBusTank69]

I would recommend TheKoba49 but the man's swinging at the windmill that is YouTube half the time and some videos are pulled or privated.
Advice on handloads, a deeper dive on old guns, and some dry humor. That tremor he's got is depressing though.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Every guntuber I watch swears up and down 40 S&W is dead, and yet it is not only still here, but my friend that I got into firearms over the past year is planning on buying one and won't have his mind shifted one bit, despite shooting 9mm and 38 special. I also can attest 10mm is overhyped, gun shops rarely have ammo in my area, and when they do, slim pickings.

40 S&W persists specifically because of ammo shortages, when ammo is plentiful everyone trades them in, when ammo is scarce people clamor to buy them. At least that's how it is in my neck of the woods.

 

[WelperHelper99]

40 S&W persists specifically because of ammo shortages, when ammo is plentiful everyone trades them in, when ammo is scarce people clamor to buy them. At least that's how it is in my neck of the woods.

Same over here. It is the reserve currency, so to speak, you can't go wrong keeping one in your safe, so when everyone goes "where's all the 9mm" you can sit back and laugh in your piles of 40.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

Same over here. It is the reserve currency, so to speak, you can't go wrong keeping one in your safe, so when everyone goes "where's all the 9mm" you can sit back and laugh in your piles of 40.

Eh, I have enough piles of everything else I really don't need to introduce another cartridge. Besides, I've got a G32 so if I ever get bitten by the .40 bug I'll just get a barrel and recoil spring for that.

 

[DocAwe]

Eh, I have enough piles of everything else I really don't need to introduce another cartridge. Besides, I've got a G32 so if I ever get bitten by the .40 bug I'll just get a barrel and recoil spring for that.

The 19, 23, & 32 all use an 18# spring.
You should be ok.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

The 19, 23, & 32 all use an 18# spring.
You should be ok.

The more you know, all I need is the barrel then. I've tested the mags in a 23 and they are literally identical.

 

[DocAwe]

The more you know, all I need is the barrel then. I've tested the mags in a 23 and they are literally identical.

The 23 and 32 use the same mags, capacity is also the same.
9mm is OK from a 40/357 mag but would get G17/19 mags just to be sure.
My understanding is other than the markings & barrel the 23 and 32 are the same gun.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

The 23 and 32 use the same mags, capacity is also the same.
9mm is OK from a 40/357 mag but would get G17/19 mags just to be sure.
My understanding is other than the markings & barrel the 23 and 32 are the same gun.

The 23 and 32 are identical besides the markings and barrel, that is correct. And yeah I'm gonna get 19 mags if I ever get a 19 barrel for it, but I already have other nines that I like way better than the 19, I really do not like the G19 tbh and I don't have any reason to do that.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

I'm still a believer in .40, I went away from 9mm unless it was a PCC/collectors item/SBR.

 

[HumptiDouji]

the "better" 10mm is fucking shit unless you buy one of like three loadings on the market that actually bothers to try load to 10mm pressures, which they all claim they do.

I keep getting told by people that it's not underloaded anymore, but just looking it up you can see that most still is. It's bizarre to me that a cartridge hyped for its power gets underdelivered on by most manufacturers.

I have a soft spot in my heart for .40, my dad got me an old taurus pt 100 lol. Damn thing was made on Dec 1 1991 but it still works fine to this day.

Perhaps it was my imagination, but having once looked at and handled a couple of Taurus pistols from around the 80s and early 90s, they seem a good bit nicer put together than later production ones I remember.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I keep getting told by people that it's not underloaded anymore, but just looking it up you can see that most still is. It's bizarre to me that a cartridge hyped for its power gets underdelivered on by most manufacturers.

There is a reason for that: the FBI are pussies, and even though they eventually got .40 ( a blessed cartridge that still lives on, especially in South America, much to TFBTV chagrin) they came up with the "FBI load" which unlike the FBI load for 38 special, is not based, and is just 40 with a long case, all so they could use those shiny new 10mm pistols they bought.

 

[HumptiDouji]

Right, I know that, but why haven't we gone past this? Like why even continue making 10mm Auto if you aren't even gonna do it right? You can run Buffalo Bore in a Colt Delta Elite contrary to what people insist, as long as it's not one of the really early barrels with less case support, so it's not like people are at risk to blow up any guns.

 

[DocAwe]

10mm is like 6.5 CM, the current MEME caliber.

 

[Corn Flakes]

There is a reason for that: the FBI are pussies, and even though they eventually got .40 ( a blessed cartridge that still lives on, especially in South America, much to TFBTV chagrin) they came up with the "FBI load" which unlike the FBI load for 38 special, is not based, and is just 40 with a long case, all so they could use those shiny new 10mm pistols they bought.

Most feds (and police in general) barely ever get any kind of firearms practice to begin with. For most of them their pistol is just a paperweight they get to pull out when they're scared.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Most feds (and police in general) barely ever get any kind of firearms practice to begin with. For most of them their pistol is just a paperweight they get to pull out when they're scared.

Sadly that's why we got the cucked versions today. They'll still drop you dead, but they aren't bear killers. If you want those you either have to search hard or load them. Still, at least most of the new pistols coming out are rated for the hot loads, like that Smith 2.0 I like.

 

[Dvsilverwing]

.40 ( a blessed cartridge that still lives on, especially in South America, much to TFBTV chagrin)

I'm guessing there are similar laws to Mexico where you can't own the military's chosen calibers? IE 38 Super, .40, and .45 take the place of 9mm?

 

[WelperHelper99]

I'm guessing there are similar laws to Mexico where you can't own the military's chosen calibers? IE 38 Super, .40, and .45 take the place of 9mm?

From what I've gathered, the police, of all agencies, really fucking like it still, especially in Brazil. They literally made a Steyer Aug SMG in .40 just for them.