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I wish Winchester would bring back the old silver tips, I liked em and reminds me of the old days, when you ended up going to the gun shop and getting the yellow box and the big red x!

That's all I used in a 30-06 150gr. till I couldn't buy em off the self anymore. Went to the hornady 165 gr. BTSP and never looked back.

Like this?



I think(not sure), that this box preceded the box with the big red x.

Power points with a thin aluminum shim is all they are

I miss the good old days too

When I was a kid deer season was a big time event

Not so much these days

I was lucky enough to get my hands on 500 or so 180 grain 30 cal silver tips... For reloading.

Yes just something about them! I think it makes us older guys go back in time if just for a split second! love the 303 savage 190 grain silver tips!

I miss them too. Brings back a lot of old memories.

like these ?...


Sorry, couldn't help it. I've had these for some time and plan to load some this year.


Jerry

yep was a big thing, thanks guy's just feeling a little vintage

They were my favorite bullets. I used the 170 in the .30-30 and the .32 Special.

The 200 gr Silvertip from my .358 has taken the most game for me.

I used it over 3031 primarily on the VT hills for deer out of my 99F.

When WW stopped making the bullet long ago my late dad made me a swaging tool to put a spitzer shape on Speer's 180 gr flat nose.

My daughter has maybe half a box of hand loaded 130 grainers for her 270. Then they are all gone. I'll miss them as well. I remember saving my allowance to buy 30/30 Silvertips. Back when kids had to earn their keep. I'd bring them home and admire them for an hour or so. Nothing like a brand new box of shinny Silvertips. Made a lad feel down right rich. Evenings and Saturdays splitting and stacking firewood suddenly had a value. They're no better or worse than any other bullet. Just one of those memories that remind us of simpler times.

Same here Otter. As a young man I'd buy a box of Winchester 170 Silvertips for my .30-30 or .32 Special and I'd just pull them out of the box and stare at them. No other ammo ever quite had that effect on me.

170 grain silvertips were my favorite .30-30 load. Downright deadly on deer and the tips didn't get all mashed up in the mag tube. I don't know why they weren't more popular.

Gotta say this is the first time I've heard much positive about them. I've never used them, just heard a lot more negative than positive about them. I have a full box of 180gr .308 that came with a rifle I bought, was going to pull the bullets to save the brass,as .308 brass is presently rather scarce around here.

I still have a few in 30 cal 180s and 270 130s. Besides being reminiscent of old time hunts they were effective. I have recovered two from moose. The 3006 180 average 137 gr shot at about 110 yards and 80 yards. The others just punched thru. In the 270 I have only recovered two the remainder pushed thru . The 270 130 average 98 gr into a whitetail and a mule deer both shot around 175 yards. I also wish they still had them, although I still have enough to last. I switched to nosler partitions about 20 years ago when my boys were each 14 years old and I wanted to ensure adequate expansion at down loaded velocities. In hindsight the silver tips would have been just as effective.

I delivered milk when I was 13 to 16 years old. One of the strong visuals in one house was a young man going on a deer hunt with a winchester 94 in 30-30 and a red and yellow box of silver tips. That dates me, and I was an up a coming looney even before i had a gun. On another occasion I went over to a classmates house to admire the two elk and three deer his dad and his friend had taken, again with a winchester 30-30 and silver tips. I made a point of asking as thats what up and coming looneys do.

I have a perfectly mushroomed 30-30 170 Silvertip I dug out of the heart of a Bull Moose I killed.


My Grandfather loved the 200 Silvertip in the 35 Remington and my uncle swore by the 150 Silvertip in his 30-06.

I used to work with an elderly gentleman who had taken several Elk in Colorado with his Winchester model 88 308 with 180 Silvertips.

They blew up on me too often. Ruined a lot of meat.

Elk,deer,moose? Just curious. What were you shooting them out of? What weight were they?