Question regarding .40S&W

[dwsmithjr]

I would not even bring this up on other forums because there would be a resulting firestorm with a great deal of heat and very little light. However, here I feel it's safe and I'll get a reasonable and measure response.

At some point in the ten years I've been shooting and trawling gun forums, I picked up a less than positive view of .40S&W. It seemed like it got a lot of bad press. It was sort of a bastard cartridge, a solution looking for a problem and so on.

However, recently I was reading how it came about and I thought all the bad press was rather misplaced. So, let me hear, what you do think of .40S&W? I know it's not 10mm, but......