Winchester Ranger 9mm

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dnr1128

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I recently bought a box of Ranger 9mm 147gr SXT bullets from Cheaperthandirt.com Anybody familiar with this ammo? Is it decent for personal protection? What does the SXT mean? It looks the same as JHP, what is the difference?
 
The running joke is that SXT stands for "Same Xact Thing" as they are the same general design as the old "Black Talon" rounds, renamed for public relations reasons. They have changed a few things over the years, but it was mostly a name change.

They are indeed jacketed hollowpoints (JHPs), they just have a specific brand-name.

It's good ammo, shoot up some to make sure your gun likes it and go from there.
 
SXT stands for Supreme Expansion Technology that uses Winchester's 'reverse taper' jacket design, meaning that the jacket is incorporated into the bullet's wounding mechanism. The outside of the jacket is folded into the hollowpoint cavity


When Ranger Talon expands, its copper jacket peels back to form six sharp claws. These claws protrude outward just slightly beyond the smooth outer edges of the mushroom-shaped lead core shoulder.

Upon impact with flesh Ranger Talon performs identical to conventional hollowpoint bullets. However, as it penetrates and slows it does not suffer a decrease in effective bullet diameter. This is because tissue that stretches and flows around the smooth shoulder of the mushroom-shaped lead core comes into contact with the sharp copper jacket claws and is lacerated.

These lacerations contribute little to overall wound severity.

However, if Ranger Talon happens to pass very close to a major cardiovascular structure, instead of merely shoving it aside as it passes by, one of the six claws might be in position to cut the wall of this structure to cause profuse bleeding.

This additional cutting mechanism gives Ranger Talon the potential to be approximately 3% to 5% more effective than other expanding bullets of the same caliber. In one out of every 20-30 shootings, Ranger Talon might make a difference.

In order for Ranger Talon's increased wounding potential to be realized, at least two conditions must be met: 1) the bullet's wound track must pass close enough to a major blood vessel to physically touch it, and 2) one of the talons must be in the right orientation to physically contact the wall of the blood vessel as the bullet rifles past. If one of these two conditions are not met, the wound will be no more severe than any other JHP expanding bullet.

This very slight advantage could be just enough to save the life of a police officer who has to shoot a psychotic, enraged or chemically intoxicated attacker who is oblivious to being shot.
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http://www.firearmstactical.com/briefs2.htm

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The photo shows a Black Talon expanded bullet and cartridge, but Ranger T and SXT look pretty much the same except that Ranger T has longer 'talons', and has a gold-colored Lubalox coating instead of the evil black color..
 
There was a guy who got shot in the back of the arm in his house by some retard messing with a glock that was sitting on the bed. He posted the story and pics on AR15.com a year or so back.

The ammo was Ranger SXT in 9mm. Not sure of the bullet weight, but the injury was horrible and the bullet completely expanded.

The guy was sitting back to the weapon at the computer and the bullet impacted back in the tricept area. He ended up being medevaced by helicopter. The pics of the injury were harsh.
 
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There was a guy who got shot in the back of the arm in his house by some retard messing with a glock that was sitting on the bed. He posted the story and pics on AR15.com a year or so back.

The ammo was Ranger SXT in 9mm. Not sure of the bullet weight, but the injury was horrible and the bullet completely expanded.

The guy was sitting back to the weapon at the computer and the bullet impacted back in the tricept area. He ended up being medevaced by helicopter. The pics of the injury were harsh.
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Ouch
 
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The OP wanted to know if they're good for personal protection. The example above shows that the bullet expanded really well in a real body.... In addition to the tons of ballistic gel testing that already indicates that Ranger ammo is very good for Defense.

The bottom line is YES... they're great for defense.
 
thanks for all the info ya'll! I took the ammo to the range and my glock 19 ate it quite well, so now that's what's loaded.
 
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