After reading this thread I checked my bench and the "Yellow Boxes" are getting fewer and fewer and the amber "Grand Slam" boxes are just about gone.
When I find a bullet that works for my application I tend to buy as many as I can (I still have old Nosler SB's & 35cal. 225 and 9.3mm 250 gr. BT's stacked deep).
The only Speer products I have left are old yellow box items.
> .224 - 50gr. Spitzer, 52gr. HP & 55gr. Spitzer
> .257 - 87gr. Spitzer
> 6.5mm - 140gr. Spitzer
> .308 - 150gr. & 165gr GS, 165gr. & 180gr. TBBC
> .338 - 200gr. Spitzer
> .358 - 180gr. FP and 250gr. Spitzer
> 9.3mm - 270gr. Semi-Spitzer
> .375 - 235gr. Semi-Spitzer and 285gr. GS
> .458 - 400gr. FP
While not as experienced as many on this forum, I have been using Speer products since 1972 and the only issues I experienced or personally witnessed in the field has been; when I wound up my 338 Win. Mag. to full warp and shot blacktails, caribou and a mule deer with the 200 gr. Spitzer and wondered why it was tough on the steaks and chops. The other was when a friend used his 358 STA with the 250gr. Spitzer on a Nilgai at 80 yards, both bullets didn't penetrate and went to pieces. I finished that goat roping with a 225gr. NPT.
Speer's poor availability these past few years and product development is really costing them market share.
There are just so many other choices these days.
YMMV
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Last edited by StarchedCover; 06/13/15. Reason: typo
