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Winchester’s New Supreme Elite™ XP3™ Bullet Incorporates Best Features Of Modern Bullet Designs

9/23/2005
Winchester Ammunition has been on the leading edge of rifle bullet design for nearly 140 years. The company that has led the industry in innovative award-winning new products for countless years has just introduced a new line of rifle bullets that raises the bar of performance once again.

Winchester engineers took on the challenge of developing the ultimate rifle hunting bullet. The guidelines were simple, it had to be accurate and tough, but capable of working as well on thin-skinned game, like deer and antelope, as it did on tough game, like elk, moose, bear, and African animals.

The result is the new XP3™ bullet from Winchester. It is as close to a perfect rifle bullet for hunting as you can get. It combines all the best-known bullet technology features into one bullet that gives precision accuracy, awesome knockdown power, and deep penetration all in one package. Winchester believes this ultimate hunting bullet has met standards high enough to be called Supreme Elite™. The Supreme Elite brand is reserved for the best of the best with cutting edge technology and ultimate performance.

XP3 starts with a design that separates the front of the bullet from the rear lead core. This is achieved with a web of copper jacket material that mechanically locks the bullet together. In addition, a bonded (soldered) rear lead core locks the lead to the jacket. The bonding allows the lead to stay with the jacket during impact, resulting in nearly 100% weight retention and more energy deposited on target. The patent pending design yields a unique two-stage expansion at both the front and in the body of the bullet, resulting in massive knockdown power. The XP3 bullet is capable of penetrating through tough bone, but still allows significant expansion in lighter, thin-skinned game like deer.

XP3 is topped off with a polymer tip. This tip produces several benefits. First, it increases the ballistic coefficient, which improves down range performance. Second, the polymer tip helps produce consistent expansion of the hollow point design of the XP3 bullet at a wide range of velocities. Third, it prevents damage while being loaded and unloaded out of the rifle. A boattail design on the rear of the bullet improves accuracy and increases down range performance.

The final step in the production of XP3 is to coat it with Winchester’s proprietary Lubalox® coating. This coating helps reduce barrel fouling for improved accuracy over long shooting sessions.

The XP3 bullet is designed to expand quickly on deer-sized game, yet retains the weight and energy needed to take even the largest game animals, like elk and moose. This new bullet will provide the hunter with extreme precision, power, and penetration – XP3.

In summary the XP3 bullet features:

Proprietary Web Jacket: Provides unique two-step expansion for massive knockdown power
Boattail: For precision accuracy and down range energy
Bonding: Solders components together and results in outstanding penetration
Lubalox: Reduces barrel fouling
Polymer Tip: Gives precision accuracy and down range energy retention
XP3 will be available in all popular game calibers in a variety of grain weights listed below.

Calibers Grain Weights
30-06 150 gr. and 180 gr.
300 WSM 150 gr. and 180 gr.
300 Win Mag 150 gr. and 180 gr.
308 Win 150 gr.
7mm Rem Mag 160 gr.
7 mm WSM 160 gr.
270 Win 150 gr.
270 WSM 150 gr.

Winchester engineers were challenged with the task to design the perfect rifle bullet. The XP3 comes closer to perfection than any other rifle bullet ever developed. The XP3 delivers extreme precision, power, and penetration.

Cartridges loaded with the XP3 will be available in early 2006.

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Kim

Jeg er ikke fejlfri,men det er så tæt på at det skræmmer mig.
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