PDA

View Full Version : Whatever happened to the Black Talons?

Mack45
08-18-2005, 09:01 PM
I keep 1 mag full of them in my Combat Commander, they sleep on the headboard of my bed. These are all that I have. Can I buy them anymore or have they been banned.
DrBaker
08-18-2005, 09:41 PM
You can still get it, but it's expensive.
click here (http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=35839286)
264Magnum
08-18-2005, 10:11 PM
I see them at the Tulsa show. $50 for a box of 50. One of these days I'll talk myself into buying a box.
DrBaker
08-19-2005, 05:35 AM
I just can't get myself to pay that much for a box of ammo. I guess I'm just a cheapskate.
brennan
08-19-2005, 11:13 AM
I have a box of 9mm and either 45ACP or 357mag that I will sell.
Michael Brown
08-19-2005, 04:49 PM
The Black Talon is nothing more than the Ranger SXT.

Its just been re-packaged and sold under a different name due to the negative publicity of the Black Talon.

Michael Brown
Mack45
08-19-2005, 07:54 PM
Michael,
Is this the same stuff?
http://glocktalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=421783
Mack45
J.P.
08-19-2005, 08:10 PM
Yes,it is essentially the same.
There have been little tweaks to each caliber to optimize performance but it is the same ammo.(just not coated with black Lubalox)
Michael Brown
08-19-2005, 10:05 PM
Yup.

Michael Brown
okla-lawman
08-21-2005, 10:06 AM
The Black talon was never really any good in anything outher than .45. In the shootings I have reviewed (it was not many) they did not perform well and tended to over penetrate exiting the body. The press gave it so much hype about it spinning and cuttin its way through the body. It made them look so stupid. If you think about the bullets spin rate is set by the barrel. If the spin rate is 1 in 11 it is only going to rotate once inside most of us..and us bigger guys maybe one and a half :wink2:

I sitll like the Hydrashock, Gold dot and golden Sabre all are really good rounds. With them you dont have some attorney trying to make the point
tha you were using the killer Black Talon rounds and showing the new's
reports about them and that shooting they were involved in.

According to Evan Marshalls data base, the last time I checked, all the .45
rounds mentioned were estimated to be over 92 percent one shot stopper. The Hydra Shock, out of a 5" barrel was 100%
Michael Brown
08-21-2005, 05:18 PM
C'mon Bear!

Please don't tell me you're relying on the Marshall-Sanow "studies"? :nono1:

Michael Brown