10mm Auto Handloads in Carbines

Handloading the 10mm Auto for carbines is easy, and the result is you can save money or simply shoot more for the same money.

BY LANE PEARCE

THE 10MM AUTO CARTRIDGE, INTRODUCED IN the early 1980s, was almost a flash in the pan—not because the exemplar Bren Ten pistol design was at fault and not because of the original Norma 10mm Auto factory-loaded ammo’s ballistics (200-grain bullets launched at a velocity of 1,200 fps). The problem was the company making the pistols was almost doomed from the start. The old adage “it takes money to make money” proved out, and the Dornaus & Dixon company made only about 1,500 pistols. Plagued with business troubles, by 1986, the Bren Ten project was dead. Two events revived interest in the 10mm Auto cartridge. The first was a tragic confrontation in Miami between two suspected bank robbers and law enforcement. During a violent shootout, both bad guys were killed but…

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Shooting Times (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2025

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