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I've been loading and hunting with these bullets inherited from my father for several years now. They are in a tuperware labelled in sharpie as "Hornady 180". They absolutely stomp whitetails when fired from my Interarms 30-06. If the deer doesn't drop, which it usually does, I get wide, short blood trails. My only complaint so far is if I hit front shoulder there is significant meat loss in both shoulders. Obviously the easy remedy is to shoot for lungs, but I digress.

The closest approximation I can find in bullets currently offered by Hornady is the SST line. The difference I see is the red tip on the SST. My bullets have a brown/tan tip. These bullets are also at least 5 years old, but probably more. I also find that when loaded to max 30-06 COAL, the cannelure sits quite far above the case mouth. Can anyone help me identify these bullets? Thanks!

Looks like a Hornady SST to me. Probably just made for someone else.

Sound like deer getters.

It looks like an SST with the color tip used in Remington Accutip ammo with bullets supplied by Hornady.

Agreed with you two, looks like an SST to me.

I've bought some Hornady and Nosler seconds via Midway before, and sometimes you'll get mixed colored tips in the batch.

That's it!! And that makes total sense because I also have USPS boxes full of hundreds of 30 cal and 7mm blemish spire point bullets from Midway that I also inherited. I bet that's where these came from. I found the article in the link below after you guys pointed me to the Accutips. Says they are just SST bullets made for Remington with a different color tip. Now it's time to stock up on SSTs. Thanks a lot!!!

https://www.americanhunter.org/content/bullet-bio-remington-accutip/

Hornady had those yellow tips on those zombie bullets back in the day too

That’s what I was thinking too.