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New Winchester Ammo, USA Ready Defense, Looks Promising

With this introduction from Winchester ammo, USA Ready Defense is but one more contender in the mix to consider for your defensive handgun needs. This ammunition, is being touted to maximize stopping power through  consistent penetration and reliable expansion when fired through popular concealed carry pistols.

Winchester Ammo With Insert In Hollowpoint

USA Ready Defense ammunition features a distinctive Hex-Vent™ bullet design. Nested inside the jacketed hollow point cavity is the revolutionary Hex-Vent rigid insert.

That insert shields the hollow point from obstruction while channeling material flow for positive bullet expansion.  This results in highly consistent terminal performance. Fired through common personal defense pistols, the 9mm Luger +P 124-grain variant demonstrates 12-inch penetration with 95 percent weight retention.

Winchester claims that along with sledgehammer-like impact, USA Ready Defense ammunition achieves high accuracy and trusted reliability thanks to its Match Grade Primer and lot-controlled loading techniques.

In fact, the individual ballistics data for each lot of USA Ready ammunition are available on Winchester’s website.

This new Winchester ammo had a rigid insert inside the hollowpoint for reliable expansion.

Three Initial Loads To Be Available

Winchester USA Ready Defense ammunition is available in 9mm Luger +P, 40 S&W and 45 Auto and will be sold in 20-round boxes. The 9mm +P load with 124-grain bullet achieves a listed muzzle velocity of 1,200 feet per second for 396 foot-pounds of energy. 

The .45 ACP load with 200-grain bullet has a listed muzzle velocity of 1,000 fps for 444 ft-lbs. of energy. The .40 S&W load will feature a 170-grain bullet. Velocity and energy figures haven’t been released for it yet. Prices for the new ammo have also not been released.

Introducing new defensive handgun ammo is fine. Of course the question remains, with guns selling at a record rate, will we be able to find any ammo any time soon? The best handgun ammo in the world does us no good if “out of stock” is continually listed at the retail level.

For more information, go to Winchester.

The new Winchester ammo, USA Ready Defense, looks to be a promising defensive handgun load.
Here are the listed performance numbers for the USA Ready Defense, the new Winchester ammo for handguns.
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