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Have this partial box of Remington bronze points. Always heard not a good bullet. Was going to load some in my 30-06 for whitetail, but maybe stick to something else? Maybe a good varmint bullet, wolves ,coyotes ?
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I would imagine that they have killed a lot of animals. I would also bet that they (like many bullets) have failed, and we will soon hear about those failures. (But maybe they haven't been used much recently, so we'll just get second-hand accounts.)
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But they sure look "Bad Ass !"
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Based on personal experience I would not use them on critters larger than a coyote. Certainly not on anything I wanted to eat or even find.
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Many times I had a native from out in the village somewhere in rural AK come in looking for bronze points. To a man they all told me they wanted them for moose because the bronze tip was the bone breaker.
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Loaded some years ago, killed deer fine.
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Loaded some years ago, killed deer fine. Same here, i loaded them in a 30.06 and my brother used them in a 300mag and we both killed a bunch of deer with them.
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Never had any issues with them from a 30-06.
150 grain on whitetails.
I guess you could think of them as an early Ballistic Tip, just had a metal tip instead of poly.
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I used them, in the late 80s or early 90s, 150 grainers in a .300 Savage at about 2550 fps. They didn't open up much, probably because the old .300 just didn't have enough velocity for them. I bought them cheap from a fellow who went to gunshows and bought stuff and resold it. I quit them for deer and went back to Speer Hot Cores or Hornaday Spire points (shot a lot of pre-interlock spire points out of that old .300). The bronze points made dandy practice bullets and shot very well.
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If they’d bring ‘em out in a bonded version, how cool would that be? Boomers would line up to buy them…..
(I’m having a lot of fun with this Boomer schitt)
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The original "tipped" bullet.
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The original Ballistic Tip.
You beat me typing it
Last edited by navlav8r; 09/21/21.
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No one has mentioned BC; how can this discussion have any validity?
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Many years ago I worked on a buddies ranch putting up hay and other stuff. He was short on cash and paid me off with a bunch of bronze tips in .270. I loaded them up and shot the snot out of a bunch of Mule Deer as well as coyotes. They worked just fine. I can't recall if I popped any elk with them or not. Could have but I just don't recall off the top of my head. I do recall that the bronze points were accurate and dropped bucks as well as anything else.
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The original Ballistic Tip.
You beat me typing it Same idea.....Not the same. I had a few boxes years ago. I tested quite a few on diff medium. EXPLOSIVE ? Maybe a bad lot ? Never hunted them. I too liked the idea and looks. Jerry
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I used the 150gn in my .30-06 for pigs at around 2900fps. They seemed to work fine.
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Shot 4x5 whitetail with 150 gr bronze pts out of my 308 1 shot and a 75 yd run ,he dead. I've got 3 boxes of 130 grain BP's for the 270 and 50 180 grain .308's. I've heard they don't have a real high regard by the knowing but I'll give them a go. Mb
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I thought them cool looking if nothing else.
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They were cool looking, but not as cool looking as Winchester Sliver Tips, I remember shooting some of them, but don't remember what critters i killed with them if any ?? Rio7
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I bought two rounds of .30-06 (150 grain Bronze Points) from a broken box in my (not yet born) wife's grandfather's store. I thought they were pretty cool looking bullets. I went out with my O3-A3 and shot a couple of woodchucks. One came running out of a hole in front of me, stopped and popped up. I hit it square in the chest at about 10 yards. It fell forward, then proceeded to gallop in about a thirty-foot circle, got back to where it started and dropped dead. The next one I shot was running away from me at about fifty yards. The bullet must have struck somewhere around the base of the tail. All I found when I got up to it was the head and two fore legs with about a two-inch wide strip of skin from its back. That's the extent of my experience with Remington Bronze Points.
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