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I remember using these on deer 35 years ago but all I remember was dead critters. Are they a good stout bullet or explosive or somewhere in between?
I’m going to load some to test on hogs and see how they shake out.

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Originally Posted by gunnut308
I remember using these on deer 35 years ago but all I remember was dead critters. Are they a good stout bullet or explosive or somewhere in between?
I’m going to load some to test on hogs and see how they shake out.

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Oh man! I’d run em!

I know they knock deer and bear down just fine!

Plus, they just look cool!

Those just make me wanna load em in the old 06 and take to the woods myself!


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They do have some cool factor!...Rambo looking bullets!!

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They do the job. I killed some deer and a Moose and a Bear with them.

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wack em and stack em. i use those in 30-30, 300 blk out, 7.62x39 ,300 savage, 308 win, and 30-06. had 500 of them now down to 250
have killed deer, elk and moose with them. never lost one. never recovered a bullet so no data there.


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I’d love to have a pile of them!

They’re excellent deer killers back where I come from.


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I keep those on hand for vampires, just in case.

They were a good bullet for their time an early controlled expansion bullet. They usually penetrated well but sometimes I think the cap would come off and then they would expand like crazy but not penetrate very well, still killed stuff.

One PH used to like them for Leopard, he would peel the tip off to create a big soft nose.

The early ones had a tin alloy tip, at some point they switched to an aluminum cap. Some thought this ruined the bullet, I couldn't tell much difference.

The 30-30 ones were great in 308 they worked fine but nothing stood out about them. Pigs will hate them.

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Anybody ever run them in a .300 Win or .300 Weatherby?

Hogs are a damn fine ballistic gelatin smile. I’ll probably try’m in the 308 and 30-06 first.

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There are actually 3 or 4 different types and construction of the Silvertip bullets. The first type had a harder nickle silver "silvertip" jacket that extended to the base of the bullet. These were the bullets that gained a reputation for deep penetration. These early bullets disappeared around 1955. The type show are just a standard cup and core bullet with a very thin aluminum cap covering just the tip of the bullet. The tip is so soft that they often deform under recoil in the magazine box of heavy recoiling rifles. Will perform like about any cup and core. I had one completely come apart on an elk shot with a 348 Win at 200 yards. Then there was a short run of a 3rd generation silvertip that came on the scene in the late 80's IIRC. This bullet had a horrible reputation. A gun writer shot a porcupine , twice, with a 300 Win Mag. Neither bullet exited. Then along came the ballistic silvertip. I have not heard how this preforms.

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Originally Posted by gunnut308
Anybody ever run them in a .300 Win or .300 Weatherby?

Hogs are a damn fine ballistic gelatin smile. I’ll probably try’m in the 308 and 30-06 first.


I just bought a box of 220 grain Silvertips for the 300 Mag in the old yellow Winchester box. I'd love to try them on something large

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First iteration was supposed to be good. Supposedly the second were too soft. It was especially problematic in .375" where some folks got in trouble on big stuff.

Story was 2nd were not in production very long before the "corrected" third type. Saw a thread on another forum years back with pics demonstrating external differences between the short-lived 2nd and 3rd iterations.

Still have boxes of .308", .338", .375", .257", .277". Best I can tell all from '70s and '80s. No issues with the .308" 180 gr or .375" 300 gr on deer. They are a bit quicker to expand vs a Rem CL, and not as accurate, IME. The .375 300 enjoyed a good reputation, and I found it does not lack for penetration - at least not at H&H/Ruger velocities.

There are poor performance anecdotes for literally every bullet ever made.

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Originally Posted by moosemike


I just bought a box of 220 grain Silvertips for the 300 Mag in the old yellow Winchester box. I'd love to try them on something large


I had some of these in 180 grain in a 300H&H back in the '70's to shoot a couple deer and a small bear. They were old then. The shots were at close range, under 50 yds. They pretty much blew up didn't penetrate well, all three were broadside behind the shoulder shots, two died pretty quick, but one deer ran about 300 yds, big wound on the surface, lungs and heart were full of fine shrapnel, no real hole in them, looked like they were hit with fine birdshot.

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This is good news. I had feared they might be too soft.


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I shot a big pig in the shoulder with a 180 out of a 30/06. Blood everywhere and never found him. Months later my cousins caught and killed him with their dogs. He had a big knot on his left shoulder, when they cut it open my Silvertip was flattened out like a half dollar against the shoulder blade.

The week before I’d shot a big buck up the chute as he ran away, that one broke the pelvis and exited the front of his chest.

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Had one blow up on a deer shoulder years ago from a .308 Win. It was old ammo even then. Never bothered with it again. I have a full yellow box of .358 Win 250 gr Silvertips taking up space. Happy Trails


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Originally Posted by WAM
Had one blow up on a deer shoulder years ago from a .308 Win. It was old ammo even then. Never bothered with it again. I have a full yellow box of .358 Win 250 gr Silvertips taking up space. Happy Trails


Do you wanna part with them? I’d love to have them.


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Originally Posted by beretzs
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Had one blow up on a deer shoulder years ago from a .308 Win. It was old ammo even then. Never bothered with it again. I have a full yellow box of .358 Win 250 gr Silvertips taking up space. Happy Trails


Do you wanna part with them? I’d love to have them.


Let me make sure I can find them first. I could be persuaded to part with them.


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Originally Posted by beretzs
Originally Posted by WAM
Had one blow up on a deer shoulder years ago from a .308 Win. It was old ammo even then. Never bothered with it again. I have a full yellow box of .358 Win 250 gr Silvertips taking up space. Happy Trails


Do you wanna part with them? I’d love to have them.


God damn it Scotty, get to work!!

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Some of my most treasured ammunition is the three boxes or so I have of .303 Savage with 190 grain roundnose Silvertips. They shoot well in my 99 and are absolutely deadly on deer. Have also killed a couple good caribou with them.


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