Winchester Black Talon - 1992

I found one of those left along with a bunch of empty brass on the range after the cops had been doing some training a few years back.
 
Light Infantry said:
Didn't they rename them Ranger and change the colour to copper?
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They kept the projectiles black for several years but changed the name to SXT. Everyone said that stood for “same exact thing”. They did eventually change to just plain copper colour. Still called SXT. Ranger is just the LE line of ammo. Includes 12ga and 223.
 
In one of the "Die Hard" movies refer to these boolits as Cop Killers ?
Not sure if it was the Winchester ammo brand, but something along the lines .
Then again the early 90's where a bit of a blurr...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Rob
 
FLHTCUI said:
In one of the "Die Hard" movies refer to these boolits as Cop Killers ?
Not sure if it was the Winchester ammo brand, but something along the lines .
Then again the early 90's where a bit of a blurr...
Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Rob
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Lethal Weapon 3, hollow point bullets that somehow penetrated a front end loader bucket.

Also CSI Miami had an episode referring to them as "Death Talons", cause the petals opening up caused war crime like injuries. And this was before the whole multi episode arc with the "Fused Alloy" bullets that expanded in soft targets, but somehow also hardened against armor plating.
 
Killed lots of moose with Black Talon. One of our gang head shot a cow moose at about 25 yards (all that she would show him) with a .300 WM. Blew the head clean off. Lol, just kidding.
Bullet did not exit the head but the bullets was recovered against the hide at the back of the skull. 180 gr Failsafe ended up weighing 168 gr after going through the skull. We probably shot 8-10 moose and a couple black bears with Black Talon, that was the only bullet ever recovered, eveything else passed right through with a good size exit wound.
 
The_Shmoo said:
Lethal Weapon 3, hollow point bullets that somehow penetrated a front end loader bucket.

Also CSI Miami had an episode referring to them as "Death Talons", cause the petals opening up caused war crime like injuries. And this was before the whole multi episode arc with the "Fused Alloy" bullets that expanded in soft targets, but somehow also hardened against armor plating.
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I dont think they ever claimed they were HP in LW3, you Might be thinking of LW1 where he keeps a HP round for himself.
Here's a picture of the Lethal Weapon Cop Killers.

Heres my small collection of black Talon as well as some Black Talon SXT and Regular SXT's that I've fired. Both are almost Identical. New Ranger ammo though is not. It doesnt open into sharp petals like the Old SXT does.

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maynard said:
Killed lots of moose with Black Talon. One of our gang head shot a cow moose at about 25 yards (all that she would show him) with a .300 WM. Blew the head clean off. Lol, just kidding.
Bullet did not exit the head but the bullets was recovered against the hide at the back of the skull. 180 gr Failsafe ended up weighing 168 gr after going through the skull. We probably shot 8-10 moose and a couple black bears with Black Talon, that was the only bullet ever recovered, eveything else passed right through with a good size exit wound.
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I have one last box of nickel cased 300 gr .375 H&H Failsafes for my work rifle in great bear habitat.

In case of a terrible presentation angle at 25 yards.
 
dont think they ever claimed they were HP in LW3, you Might be thinking of LW1 where he keeps a HP round for himself.
Here's a picture of the Lethal Weapon Cop Killers.
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Very entirely possible. I haven't seen that movie all the way through in years and my brain was probably mashing it together with the stupid CSI Miami stuff when I think about the shooting the loader bucket scene.
 
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