Gentlemen,
It's a well known fact among my friends that I collect hollow-point ammo for handguns. Don't know why, but I love it.
I have been doing this for the last couple of years and have found some pretty cool stuff, most of it in guns shops in AB. Allot of it is just a box or two that shops have bought from either estate sales, auctions...whatever. Some of my most prized bullets have been found when shops go in and reorganize their ammo and find a box of something old and put it up for sale.
I think what started my current obsession is after a ton of research and reading, most of it done on the internet, I was reading about the "Winchester Black Talon" rounds that had a "Lubox" coating on the bullet, making it black. Their was a huge movement in the early 90's, before I was even able to buy guns or ammo, to ban this ammo because anti's figured that the "Lubox" was some type of Teflon coating that enabled the black talon rounds to penetrate Level 1 and 2 body armour. After immense public pressure, Winchester discontinued the "Black Talon" name and the "Lubox" coating.
They still make the SXT bullet, which is essentally the Black Talon bullet sans coating and I have found these quite readily available at most gun shops. I have not seen any original Black Talon ammo, that was, until today.
Needles to say, they are not the original Black Talon's, but it's close enough!!!!
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It's a well known fact among my friends that I collect hollow-point ammo for handguns. Don't know why, but I love it.
I have been doing this for the last couple of years and have found some pretty cool stuff, most of it in guns shops in AB. Allot of it is just a box or two that shops have bought from either estate sales, auctions...whatever. Some of my most prized bullets have been found when shops go in and reorganize their ammo and find a box of something old and put it up for sale.
I think what started my current obsession is after a ton of research and reading, most of it done on the internet, I was reading about the "Winchester Black Talon" rounds that had a "Lubox" coating on the bullet, making it black. Their was a huge movement in the early 90's, before I was even able to buy guns or ammo, to ban this ammo because anti's figured that the "Lubox" was some type of Teflon coating that enabled the black talon rounds to penetrate Level 1 and 2 body armour. After immense public pressure, Winchester discontinued the "Black Talon" name and the "Lubox" coating.
They still make the SXT bullet, which is essentally the Black Talon bullet sans coating and I have found these quite readily available at most gun shops. I have not seen any original Black Talon ammo, that was, until today.
Needles to say, they are not the original Black Talon's, but it's close enough!!!!
