The black talons bullet design is still on the market. They just took off the evil black luballoy coating that people thought made it penetrate bullet proof vest,and they changed the evil packaging from solid black with a scary eagle with claws to a gold box with a blue stripe and a police badge on it.
Due to bad media hype about it going threw police vest,the talons cutting ER surgeons gloves, being cop killers,being black killers,ect people tpo this day still believe all of that stuff and think they are illegal to own.
Winchester changed the packaging and company policy too only sell the talons to law enforcement. You can still get them threw ammo dealers because of over stock,returned purchases,ect. It not against the law to own them, its just against Winchesters policy to sell directly to civilians.
The new and improved talon simply without the black coating is called the
Winchester Ranger-T. Allot of people say that Winchester SXT is the "same exact thing" but i have found that it has to be the Ranger-SXT and not the Supreme SXT. The Supreme SXT has 8 pedals instead of 6 and they are de-fanged. The Supreme SXT do have a larger hollow point cavity though. I have seen 9mm and .380 Winchester Supreme SXT at SportsmansWarehouse and BassProShop. I have seen Ranger-T in 9mm,.40,.380auto,and .357sig at
www.ammunitiontogo.com,cheaperthandirt.com,ect.
http://ammunitiontogo.com/catalog1/...95gr-hp-ammo&cName=380-auto-hollow-point-ammo
1) Black Talon (Lubalox coated bullet, in nickel case) 6 sharp petals
2) Ranger SXT (Lubalox coated bullet in brass case) 6 sharp petals
3) Ranger-T (Copper bullet in nickel case) 6 sharp petals
4) Supreme SXT (Copper bullet in nickel case) 8 blunt petals
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"the chronology of the development of Winchester's SXT handgun bulllet line:
1992: The Black Talon (BT) SXT (Supreme Expansion Talon) line of handgun ammunition was introduced at ASLET (American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers) and then a few days later it was presented at the SHOT (Sporting Hunting Outdoor Trade) show.
July 1, 1993: John Luigi Ferri went on a shooting spree at a law firm located at 101 California St, San Fancisco, California, killing 8 people and wounding 6 others. The ammunition he used in his Tec-9 9x19mm pistols were the Black Talon. After receiving continuous bad press in the media and with threats of potential draconian ammunition legislation from some anti-gun U.S. Congressmen, Winchester voluntarily suspended any further sales of the Black Talon ammunition on the civilian market (I personally verified this information with a call to Winchester on November 22, 1993).
1993-94: Winchester begins to sell the BT handgun loads as "RANGER SXT CONTROLLED EXPANSION NICKEL-PLATED SHELLCASES" "LAW ENFORCEMENT AMMUNITION". As far as I can tell, this early Ranger SXT was just the original BT ammunition packaged for L.E. sales (since it was discontinued for civilian sales).
Circa 1994-95: Winchester begins to produce the Ranger SXT loads with the same BT bullet but in brass cases instead of the original nickel cases.
1994: Winchester introduced the Supreme SXT (Supreme Expansion Technology) to the civilian market. This bullet differed from the original BT in that it has eight jacket cuts and when expanded, the bullet has eight expanded jacket pedals but without the sharp pointed "talon" at the end of the jacket pedals.
1998: Winchester redesigns the SXT bullet with a thinner jacket which allows the bullet to expand sooner than the original late-expanding BT bullet. This load is now called the "Ranger T-Series" and this loading differs from the previous Ranger ammunition in that it has a shiny copper bullet jacket instead of the black Lubalox coating, and is loaded in nickel cases. The bullet still retains the six jacket cuts/pedals and sharp pointed "talon" jacket pedals on expanded bullets as the original BT and black Lubalox coated SXT bullets. "
