Them thar words call for a meetin of the switch and yon britchesless bottom.

My responses appear after your comments:

1) the 1006 has a longer barrel and generates more velocity. With most 10mm ammo these days a 1076 is essentially like shooting a .40. Pffft. Longer barrels also mean you need a stock in order to take advantage of the perceived extra velocity. Yeah, and where are you gonna put the stock? Extra barrel length offers nothing but future Sciatica pain. Besides... 1006 is not choice of FBI. 1076 was for 3 Glorious Years.

2) when you do shoot full power 10mm ammo, the bigger and heavier 1006 handles the recoil very well indeed. Blathering Balderdash. Bigger and heavier means men with girly mitts cannot handle the recoil. This is not good.

3) even if you carry the 1006--it's been done--it's really not any more difficult than carrying a full-size, all-steel 1911. I bet the 1006 is more comfortable than the 1911. Thus, it cannot be carried because according to Clint Smith a Gun is supposed to comforting, not comfortable.

4) if you are going to carry a Smith & Wesson automatic it pays to learn the Smith & Wesson manual of arms, which you'll learn on the 1006. The 1076 is a cobbled up attempt to emulate the SIG-style manual of arms without being a SIG in feel, thus one won't learn the S&W manual of arms nor will he truly get a feel for SIGs--which are the only family of pistols to operate the way they do.

Actually, the 1076's manual of arms was copied by SIG Sauer. This means it works much better than SIG's vaunted "De-cocker" system. Such a silly thing to do. Get an all steel gun and make it so it only fires 9MM. Such wasted potential.