amazing winclean powder

[judaspriest]

My buddy shoots only Winchester WinClean ammo out of his new pistols and swears by this stuff (tells me he barely has to clean them ever after a couple hundred rounds!). I haven't had a chance to see it in action until today.

While I haven't shot enough of it to form an opinion about accuracy of the ammo, I can confirm first-hand, this stuff is amazingly clean! I picked up his brass and it's almost shiny clean inside - I could not believe my eyes.

I was wondering if anyone knew if Winchester was selling (or planning to sell) the powder and primers that go into these amazing rounds?

Thanks,

JP

 

[Stinger]

I'm pretty sure Winclean refers to lead dust, not grime. But, hey, if the ammo is clean, super. It takes me the same amount of time to clean a gun no matter how dirty it is, so clean ammo wouldn't sell me.

 

[solvability]

I agree I believe it is the primer - I pulled bullets from a winclean and fired the primed case - very little fouling vs the black soot from a regular primed case - I have seen non toxic primers in the past at higher cost that purported to be cleaner but have not seen them lately and did not try them.

 

[E20thLRP]

The owner of my local Gun Shop has a Glock that 10,000 rds thru it !! has
never cleaned it...(I just can't do that to a weapon I going to carry ! )Winclean is good stuff ..its going to be great for Full Auto !! Echo ..out

 

[judaspriest]

Not sure about the primer, but a Hodgdon powders (I got to them by calling Winchester components department) ventured a guess that they are using TightGroup... Haven't tried it yet though

 

[lmccrock]

I have used Tightgroup in a .45. Not sure I would call it "clean". It leaves a fine residue which when mixed with the oils in my gun turns into grease. And the brass is definitely not "almost shiny clean inside". I switched to Clays which is much cleaner, at least for my loads.

Lee

 

[Walkalong]

I have used Tightgroup in a .45. Not sure I would call it "clean"

Not even close to clean.

 

[strat81]

I use Titegroup in 9mm... it's much cleaner than WWB, Fed Am. Eagle, S&B, and other cheap ammo, but it's not CLEAN.