New Winchester Dual Bond Bullet and Slug

Winchester is offering a new type of bullet that Winchester describes as a “bullet within a bullet”. The bullet has two jackets, one within the other. When the the bullet mushrooms it creates a devastating shape with 12 “petals”. The outer petals from the outer jackets expand further out that the petals / segments would normally protrude. The photo illustrates this well.

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What is also very interesting is that Winchester are releasing this bullet as both a big bore handgun bullet and a slug. These cartridges will initially be available:

454 Casull 260 gr
460 S&W 260 gr
500 S&W 37 gr

12 ga. 375 gr
20 ga. 260 gr

The “symbol” for the Dual Bond bullet is DJHP (duel jacketed hollow point).

A very interesting design. I see no reason for not offering this in a defensive caliber other than that it is possible the two jackets may not be able to expand from relatively low powered cartridges.

White Tail Woods has a brief review

Harling only had a precious handful of the new shells, which I’m sure he had to wrestle away from an engineer at Winchester headquarters. So I got on the paper using Winchester RackMaster slugs, then switched over to our small supply of Dual Bond shells. I put three shots into a 2-inch group at 100 yards, which is outstanding accuracy for any combination of shotgun barrel and slug. The impact difference between the two types of slugs was negligible, so I was ready to hunt.

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Photo from Whitetail Woods

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Steve Jan 8th 2009 ammunition, handguns Tags: , , , , 2 Comments

2 Responses to “New Winchester Dual Bond Bullet and Slug”

  1. Bobon 22 Jan 2009 at 10:02 am link comment

    Am I imagining things, or does that expanded bullet not look a WHOLE LOT like an expanded (and long-since banned) Winchester Black Talon!?!? :-o I still keep magful’s of ‘em around for my 1911’s (yeah… I stocked up THEN! ;-) ), but BOY that looks familiar – time to dig through my 1992 gun mags, and see if I can’t find some pictures of expanded Black Talons for comparison!

  2. Dave Stanleyon 29 Mar 2009 at 8:00 pm link comment

    Looks good to me…When is it coming in a 45 ACP version?

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