TRITON HI-VEL Ammunition

[Old SF MJT]

Good Morning, Folks,
I'm looking for information regarding a brand of handgun ammunition that I am seeing advertised in various locations here of late. The brand is 'TRITON HI-VEL.' It seems to me that I have heard of it before, but have never used is. It seems to be '+P' stuff, good for personal defense. Does anyone out there have any personal experience with this stuff? Is it quality stuff? Consistant? Etc., etc., etc.

Thanks in advance for the info.

Best,
Old SF MJT

 

[cratz2]

Hi Vel is one of the (if not the) original ultra high velocity ammo company. Triton seems to have come and gone a couple times at least and I consider them to be about on par with CorBon.

Last I heard, Triton was still under but it's pretty hard to keep up with these things.

 

[pyblood]

If I am correct, Triton has gone out of business. If you can get your hands on some, make sure to get all that you can get. I haven't seen much around here.

 

[Stratford Holdings]

I think I still have about 80 rounds of some Triton sitting around. It's about 2 years old and has a little kick to it. I know George Hill was using Tritons at the 3 Gun match a couple years ago. Send him an email.

 

[only1asterisk]

Some distrubuters still have Triton in the warehouse. I know for a fact that RSR has up to 30 cases of some loads and that CDNN has had Triton loads in their more recent catalogs.


David

 

[clubsoda22]

i had some, nothing special. I use rangers now.

 

[BluesBear]

Hi Vel is one of the (if not the) original ultra high velocity ammo company.

Nope, not even close.

Super-Vel was the original high-velocity hollow point ammunition company.
Lee Jurras was the pioneer in that field.

I still have a small stash, and am always looking for more. It was, and is, great stuff.

Trition was a relative newcomer to the scene in the mid 1990s. Their claim to fame was the manufacturing of the Quik-Shok ammo. A hollow point that broke into 3 sections upon expansion. It was rated highly in the unfamous ghost-goat tests.

Their conventional hollow points, sold under the Hi Vel brand was actually pretty good stuff. It was just never distributed widely enough to catch on.
The bullets they used, as you can see from the photo, are quite similar to the original Super-Vel designs.

Trition is now defunct and CDNN and a few others close-out dealers are selling off what's left of the stockpiled ammo.

 

[harrydog]

I tend to agree that it was nothing special and was expensive. The Quick-Shok, a fragmenting bullet, was interesting but I don't know how well it work in the real world.

 

[clubsoda22]

quick shock, like all fragmenting ammo, lacked penetration.

My dad had some high vels in his 1911 for, like 20 years. We decided it wa about time he replaced them and got him some modern hollowpoints.

 

[cratz2]

Nope, not even close.

Super-Vel was the original high-velocity hollow point ammunition company.
Lee Jurras was the pioneer in that field.

That's right... my bad. I was a bit young when he started (like about negative five years old) so sometimes my age starts to show when confusing similar names.

Didn't he do a lot of his work in Shelbyville, Indiana?

 

[ClarkK]

The Gun Source still sells Triton.

Gun Source

 

[BluesBear]

Yes Lee was in Shelbyville.

A couple of us used to drive up there, from Louisville, every other month or so and pick up a couple of cases.

His .38 Super loads was THE ammo to have.
I carried SUper-Vel ammo for years until my supplies started dwindling.

The only other ammo in the same league with his was the Norma handgun ammo. It didn't expand as well but it had the velocity. I wish I could find some of that in .44 mag & .45 ACP too.