Winchester Western "GI Ball Load.

Newly manufactured GI type factory load from WW. It is headstamped WMA 14 in a pattern that kind of looks GI. Next to 54 match ball, it has a more visible crimp- fairly unusual in any factory ball load. Performance is nominal for the GI load and off hand shooting showed good accuracy.

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This WW new stuff $23-50rounds at cabelas performs just about like the old military and most commercial 230 grain fmj.

From Gunblast.com 2006:
"My pistol sent 1954 WW Military Ball out at 826 fps/ 349 ft pounds energy and 41 fps spread over 7 rounds. 1960 Match Ball averaged 838/359/102 fps spread. With a single 905 fps round excluded the spread was still 61 fps."

It sure does look like you said but side by side they appear the same and the groove depth measures the same on the WW load and the old GI brass.

It's the WWI reissue with carbona blue- the first such that Colt Put out several years ago. Collectors find it a very good reproduction with the reseration that the polish lines are not going in quite the same direction as on the originals from 1917
In sharp contrasts to the usual trigger pull weight, this one came with a 3.5 pound trigger that makes fairly regular groups like this possible



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