Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Bullet history, bronze points and silver tips?

Remington specifically marketed the bronze points as long range bullets that would open up reliably after velocity had dropped. Their ads always showed a smiling sheep or antelope hunter who had used them for some 400 yard shot. The idea being that the metal point drove into the lead and initiated expansion. If they hit at a high impact velocity they would open way too fast.

I can imagine Remington’s frustration when they specifically told people “use them for when you need something that opens reliably at longer range”, the implication being that they were not best used at shorter ranges, and then people complained that they opened up too fast when an animal was shot at 100 yards. Recall that the first Ballistic Tips were scorned as being too explosive until Nosler finally put a thicker jacket on the heavier ones.

I bought a bunch of 165 grain .30 caliber bronze points cheap through the classifieds here and used them for practice rounds but they grouped about as well as most any other standard bullet.