The thin tin "silver" jacket covering the nose over the lead core fit down underneath the nose of the copper jacket is more costly and time consuming to manufacture than the plastic tipped bullets of today and offered no real advantage except to look kinda cool. Supposedly prevented the nose from being battered up in the magazine and was supposed to make it a little tougher. I shot my first deer with a 180gr silvertip out of my grandfathers 300H&H at about 50 yds, the thing blew his ribs all to hell and only a few bits of shrapnel penetrated his lung on one side. I had a long tracking job that day. It was just a little forkhorn buck. Couldn't believe it, lost my confidence in them right there. On the other hand my grandfather used the same bullet for years with the same rifle for moose, deer and bears and never had anything like that happen.
