.45 Win Mag Ammo Prices

Winchester built this in 1977 to be the .45 that finally reached rifle-adjacent territory from a handgun. It stretched the .45 case and cranked the pressure to feed the wristbreaking Wildey and Grizzly pistols of the era. A genuinely powerful round that arrived just as the market was about to fall in love with the 10mm instead. Bad timing killed a good idea.

Factory ammunition is scarce and expensive when it appears at all. This has drifted into handloader and collector territory. Owners of the big semi-autos that chamber it buy whatever surfaces and reload the rest.