I've never fired a S&W.40, what Uncle Ted calls them "S&W Short & Weak" or the "10mm Too Short"; I am just going by a mix of the article and what my kid told me. I certainly am no expert; just an Old Man with a keyboard.
leVieux
laVieux,
FYI, that makes 2 of us as EOFs.
"Uncle Ted" thinks that the .44 SPL as loaded by COL Whelen is "only borderline acceptable" for SD, so you can take his opinion with a cup of salt..
I gently suggest that you look at the BUFFALO BORE 180 grain factory load & point out the 541 FPME to your kid.
(Not only does it easily exceed my beloved .45ACP in power but in a considerably smaller/lighter handgun, too.)
As I said earlier, I suspect what your kid is talking about is the "not much more than .38SPL" load that some left/right coast/BIG CITY bureaucrats/LIBTARD morons INSISTED that LEOs should carry in their new .40 cal. handguns.
The ORIGINAL factory load is a "hoss of a different color".
yours, satx