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Bought 300 180gr .40 winny hollowpoints. Anyone know much about consistency and performance? The are nearly half the price of Hornady XTP and I was just wondering why. Aside from looking a bit rougher they are nearly identical.
 
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The Hornady's are premium bullets..meant for when your ass is on the line. and the bullet just has to perform, (read expand reliably), when 'inserted into carbon based lifeforms'.
The Winchesters....not so much...
For paper punching, the Winchesters are a much better deal.
I have loaded and shot both..the Winchesters perform adequately on the 'one-way range.
 
That doesn't really answer my question. Is it thicker copper? Better QC? I see little difference in design, but a huge difference in price. If you were just punching paper how do you know they don't expand reliably?
 
Jacketed bullets are too expensive to be shooting regularly. No HP handgun bullet will give 100% reliable expansion. Premium or otherwise. However, when you buy Hornady bullets, you're paying partly for the name and to a certain extent the stability of the company.
Winchester has gone through several ownership changes in the last 20 years or so. They seem to be marketing lower end products these days.
 
Short answer: QC + Hype = More expensive product
Long answer: (Destructive + Non-destructive testing on 1000 rounds) +
Compare Expansion vs. Non-expansion on 1000 rounds in Ballistic Gelatin (or test animal of your choice) = Master's Thesis on What's the Difference.
I'm betting on the Short Answer being close enough to give you the answer.
 
I bought a box of cheapest Remington JHPs to try in my guns, went to the range and saw the jackets peel of completely on impact; thou I have to say they were very accurate and no feeding issues (100rds).

From what I hear, Golden Sabers, Gold Dots, XTP and SXT are good JHPs; former two seem to be the better ones.
 
I have weighed each type of bullet I have used for reloading in my pistols / revolvers ....

The ONLY manufacturer that I have found to be the most consistent (at least in regards to weight) is Hornady. ALL of their bullets are exactly the weight they are marketed as (at least according to my RCBS chargemaster). I have yet to find one that is not the exact advertised weight.

Other manufacturers have constant variation in weight with the worst I have found being the CMJ ones from Frontier. That being said.. I do not formally compete so the variation in bullet weight and the proportional change in ballistics resulting in a change in accuracy do not mean much to me for shooting at steels or plinking.

The Hornady's, IMHO, have the best QC.

That being said.... I really have nothing bad to say about the other manufacturers but again... I do not formally compete so the discrepancies in weight are meaningless to me. They all function fine and produce the same end result... punch a hole or clang off the steels.

With regards to the quality of the HP's.... their effectiveness will depend a lot on the velocity at which you reload... too slow and NONE of them will expand reliably no matter who makes them, what weight and what handgun they're used in. In a hypothetical situation...... (excluding law enforcement / legal self defense use where permissable ...Canada or not) I fail to see how a 90% expansion in gelatin would make any difference as opposed to a 100% expansion. Canadian citizens can only use these at the range ( with some lucky sods being allowed to wilderness carry) so I certainly wouldn't loose sleep over how well one brand expands as compared to another. If I were competeing I'd worry more about accuracy than care what the bullet looked like after impact with the target.

Just my opinion....

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