Firearm BS thread

I carried my uncles son deer hunting with me when he was 10. He brought that sks. We get to the blind and he hands me a stripper and ask how to load it. I said dang if I know, never been around one. We finally figured it out and long story short, he missed a deer with it and I wound up killing one with it

 

That friend I mentioned earlier took his deer hunting but made the mistake of trying to use the FMJ, didn't work well. He got some of the soft point and it worked great of course.

 

I lived in southwest Virginia for the first 28 years of my life, everything is illegal there!

 

That's seems crazy. I've never been to Virginia before but West Virginia and there it seems nothing is illegal! At least 20 some years ago

 

In the county where I lived, if your vehicle was not stock, you would get pulled over by the state police. But if you had a truck with a V8 and straight pipes, headlight/taillight burnt out, busted windshield you were good to go. Make sense? That was Scott County, I miss where I grew up, just not the BS.

 

Wasn't it early 90s when everyone lost their mind over those?
Then someone came out with pretty much identical loads with a different name.
They also had black talon rifle rounds. Took a few elk with those.

 

Early-mid 90’s, back before I had discovered America.
The rifle rounds were re-marketed as “Winchester fail safe”, I don’t know when they stopped production of those.

 

I think the PDX bullet is as close to the Black Talon now I think

 

Last Dec when they had the Nations Gun Show @ Dulles these Black Talons were bringing $90 a box and people were buying them up....

 

I sold a couple boxes of 9mm to a guy who really wanted them bad years ago , for a similar price.

kept a bunch of 45acp and 44 mag talons , both work well on deer . I’m down to my last magazine of 45

 

I have a couple of boxes of those!

 

Once Winchester introduced those, the media freaked out, and ran their now-usual smear campaign. They talked about how coroners would get injured removing these bullets from dead perps - yes, I'm serious. Along with other BS, they created so much bad press that Winchester pulled them.

A year or 2 (or more?) later, they were "redesigned" and introduced as Ranger SXT. IIRC, revolver calibers were not part of the re-introduction.

I have a couple of bullets I shot into phone books or water, don't remember which. They are definitely nasty. Winchester had a really good idea, and it worked very well.

 

That will make your day go bad in a hurry

 

Yea, definitely nasty.

 

you might have already come across this, but in the event you have not, if you ever want to dig into sks info this site here is pretty good: http://chinesesks.weebly.com/dating-the-chinese-sks.html

 

.....same round at the black talon, remarketed as the PDX-1. Nice round, but he Federal HST and Winchester Ranger T out perform it.

https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests/#9mm

 

I'm a BIG fan of the Federal HST .45 and 9mm