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Winchester 9mm Target and Practice Ammo

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What is the difference between that and plain old Winchester White Box 115 grain 9mm ammo. It's a little bit cheaper, like tenths of a cent per round. Is it worse or better ammo than regular WWB? I can get it for about 21 cents a round these days.
 
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If there is a difference in the types of ammo, I bet it's minimal. If the cheaper stuff runs well in your firearm, I'd say run it then. Unless you, yourself can think of a personal reason..
 
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About 25% of the way through, we had an out of spec round that wouldn't go into battery. Yes it's cheap ammo that shoots pretty well, just be willing to accept a few bad rounds from time to time because of lax QC.
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Well I never had any kind of problem like that with Winchester White Box 9mm ammo in the past and I've shot thousands of rounds and still have about 2000 rounds to shoot. I just wonder what Wincester would say is the difference between their "White Box" ammo and this "Target and Practice" ammo? I have never seen any kind of spec or claim on what this ammo is supposed to be that is different.
 
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not meaning to hijack your thread mavs, just wanna extend some info ref another of Winchester/Olin's 9mm ammo.....this is their Active Duty M1152, 115gr that they produce for the Military - I got 1000rds of this in a "settlement" with Winchester/Olin because of a .17hmr ammo incident (another story)

anyway, here's a good youtube review of the M1152 :

 
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The Winchester white box is their generic targeting and training ammo. A FMJ bullet of traditional weight in handgun calibers. Winchester designates their own "white box" as the standard "target" ammo for 9mm. Note the wording on the box. Product Q4172. It only says target on the box.

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They also market a "target" ammo, designed about 25 years ago to deal with lead pollution in indoor ranges. The use a proprietary name,"Winclean" to designate this difference. The difference is the head of the bullet is a flat point with exposed lead, and excellent profile for game or even defense. I own several 9mm handguns, including the smallest made, the KelTec PF9. The PF9 is not recommended for Plus P ammo because of it's 12.7 ounce weight, and frankly it does kick a bit. I carry Golden Sabre, Hyrda Shock and Corbon in my Glock 43 and 19 and other 9mms. I carry the Winclean in the PF9. It does a remarkable job in a short barrel where mushrooming often simply does not work.

White box looks like this if you buy it from Ammo.com. Notice the big letters target and practice?

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Target AKA Winclean looks like this. Notice the same ballistics. Except this one does not say target and practice, it just says target. They also make the Winclean labeled as target in 124 and 147 grain.

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Then the package some in 100 packs. But these just say "target" on the box if you go to the Winchester.com site. . And the same ballistics as the other two.


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And they do 100 round packs of the regular white box too. So, they all appear to have the same ballistics. Some 50 rounds packs say target and some say target and practice. The bulk packs appear to tall say both. I cannot tell any difference, except I like the Winclean, if I can get them.

I think your assumption is correct, just a marketing deal... FWIW
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