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Thread: Can I use a 10mm chamber reamer on 40 S&W?

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    Can I use a 10mm chamber reamer on 40 S&W?

    Everyone says that 40 is a short 10mm, is that really true.

    It is the only 40 barrel I ever plan to fit and I have a 10mm reamer (I do have 40 go/nogo gauges).

    Robert.
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    All I know about those two cartridges and their chambers is what's in the SAAMI specification book:

    • The major & minor diameters at their stop shoulders are identical at 0.424 and 0.401 inch, respectively.

    • The calculated included tapers of their chambers are very, very close to each other. The 40 S&W = 0.00518 inch/inch, included. The 10mm = 0.00514 inch/inch, included. That difference may be insignificant.

    • Their freebore diameters are identical at 0.401"

    • The major difference appears to be in the lengths of their freebores. The 40 S&W = 0.131 ± 0.006 inch. The 10mm = 0.114 ± 0.006 inch.

    While one cartridge may indeed be simply a shorter (by 0.142") version of the other, the freebore differences in the SAAMI specs tell me the chamber differences are not as simple.

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    When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. [Lord Kelvin]

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    Hi Niemi,

    Thank you.

    I am hoping that I won't need to ream the chamber but if I do it sounds as if I might "get away" with a 10mm finish reamer.

    Robert.
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