As to the wheel gun......ask alf, or Haz,....some folks would rather have the reliability of a platform that has proven itself with minimal mechanical interaction....
There's soft toilet paper?
There's soft toilet paper?
Relatively.
And QUIT squeezing the damn Charmin Timothy ! ;D
Why ?
If it took 40 and 10mm it might sell, as it is it's just a waste of steel and advertising.
It would have had more market appeal had it been built for both the .40 and the 10mm! It's a SS frame, should be built stout enough for the hotter cartridge I'd expect!
What's the difference in case length/cartridge length, about .020-.030"?
I know there is a cult following for the 10mm out there.
But .38 spcl to .357 mag is .135"!
What's the difference! The datum reference being the bottom of the cartridge (primer end), wouldn't the headspace ratio be similar to the .38/.357?
.38 and .357 head space from the rim, it's bigger around than the hole in the chamber so there's no way the rounds can move forward from that point.
.40 and 10 mm don't have rims, their largest case diameter is basically the same as the smallest case diameter, so traditional revolver head spacing at the rear of the cylinder won't work.
What they did with previous guns was machine a step in the chamber that left the forward portion larger than the bullet, but smaller than the case so they could headspace from the case mouth .
Ruger did a similar thing years ago with 9 mm. They used a wire spring arrangement. Gun didn't sell. Pecos
If I'm not mistaken Federal tried some years back to put a rim on the 9 MM cartridge, and called it the 9 MM Federal, in an attempt to be able to shoot it in a revolver. I forget who made the revolver, but it flopped. I don't understand the gun companies sometimes. Ruger also had the .327 Federal "Magnum" and the .480 Ruger which was nothing more than a shortened .475 Linebaugh.
I never was attracted to the .40 S&W because I looked at it as a sort of backward development. In 1935 in an effort to give police a more powerful cartridge, Smith & Wesson lengthened the .38 Special, and in the process gave us the .357 Magnum. At the time it was the most powerful handgun cartridge made. Then, because evidently cops have trouble with powerful guns these days, they turned around and took the 10 MM and shortened it to give us the less powerful .40 S&W. So now you get twice the recoil of a 9 MM with about a 20% increase in muzzle energy. Not to mention it's about $4.00 to $7.00 a box more. If I want an auto pistol more powerful than a 9 MM I'll grab a .45 ACP and be done with it. If there is a need for more than that, I'll go with a 10 MM in a Glock.
Vast improvements in bullet design have changed the performance characteristics of the calibers involved and allow some of the ones that failed the test to now pass.
Back to the OP!
It's a good cartridge in an inexpensive revolver made by an American company manufactured in the United States!
Charter backs their firearms with a Lifetime Warranty! Any questions?
One of my supervisors at T/C once told me, "I don't care if it's right as long as we make the delivery date. We can always replace it later."
I think of that every time I hear some one bragging about their "Life time Warranty".
My Remington is 43 years old and never need anything more than a cleaning.