out of the mothballs
Several years ago in my constant experiments I started playing with strange components to see what would happen. Some things didn’t work and some worked well. At the same time I was experimenting with some Glocks that were basically a leftover project (not mine) that is a hot rodded .40 S&W. The purpose was to get close to 10mm performance in a mid-frame gun such as a G22. The data looked promising and the pressures workable but they required minimum spec chambers to run. After receiving the barrels I put together 2 guns. Needless to say, the crazy thing worked. I used them to kill a few deer as part of the test. Of course there was no difference in shooting deer with these guns and my 10 mms. All of the data was based on the 180 grain XTP. From the long barreled gun they left the muzzle at 1330 fps or exactly what my 10mm loads were doing. I had to mark the ammo boxes with orange duct tape to keep from accidentally sticking one of these in one of my 10 other 40 S&W guns.
Simultaneously I was experimenting with sighting systems. Some were cheap and some were not. One of the cheap mounts (they ranged from about 10 to 40 bucks) looked very promising. At the same time Traditions quit making (importing) their handgun scope for their muzzleloading handgun. Their claim was it was suitable for extreme recoil. An ebay seller ended up with a bunch of them. They were cheap so I bought one. The optics were unexpectedly good. I had my doubts about the adjustments but that soon proved to be a non issue. As soon as I realized that they were an unknown treasure I went back to buy several for spares but they were sold out.
I mounted the cheap scope in a 35 buck mount to see what would happen. The gun shot 70 yard groups right at 2” and had sufficient power to hunt. That is exactly what I did. From 30 to a longest shot of 71 yards it killed deer fine and I had zero issues putting the bullets where they were needed. I retired that set up and the hot rod 40 project. Too big a risk of one of the hot cartridges ending up in a stock G23 or G22. Fast forward, I have pulled it from the mothballs. Not the 40+ not to be confused with +P, but top end pressure tested .40 loads including some loads with Cutting Edge bullets that are sufficiently powerful for 50 yards deer. So back from the dead is the Frankenstein Glock.
Here it is with a different barrel. This was a 71 yard shot.
