Winchester Ranger One 147 Grain Bonded Hex-Vent: Sneak Preview


















































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Saw those advertised a day or two ago.

Looks neat, but the price is a deal-breaker for me.

hahahahahaha.
we will never get any.

I have 30000 rounds of Winchester on order from October.  
Most of it is practice RA9124N 124gr NATO FMJ.
7500 rounds is RA9124TP Ranger 124gr +P T-series JHP
and I ordered one case of 500 rds of this RA9B1 Ranger 1 to try.

I have had ZERO shipments delivered.

In February, I ordered 30000 rounds from Federal/Speer.  They told me 9mm is on a 12+ month delay.
Winchester won't tell me anything.

They owed me 30 cases of 357 sig from 2019, 25 cases from 2020 and 40 cases from 2021.  I canceled it all in 2022 and switched us to 9mm.  And we have only been able to qualify and get duty ammo from buying online instead of through our approved vendors.

Do your contracts not have mandatory delivery timeframes?  

Nope. Open ended. We don’t pay until it gets delivered.
At least Federal/Speer gave me a timeline.
I really want to try the Ranger One.

Have you tried Atlantic Tactical.  The are an authorized Winchester lLE distributor

I’ve seen all of those 9mm LE offerings in their Pa. Store

Let me guess. $1.50 a round?

Yes

Looking forward to it. I've started seeing this Win "Hex-Vent" stuff but in the 124gr. iirc and it was like $65 for 50.

Maybe in a few years when price and availability calm down I'll try some. I'm sure it will be good but I still prefer my HST for now.

It's the Lone Ranger's newest carry load!





Winchester is doing something rather interesting for this ammunition.  They're posting some of their lot test data for it online.  Unfortunately, they're only posting a cherry-picked 5-shot group for the accuracy.




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Unavailable for the unwashed masses?