From my limited experience the Winchester Silvertips are very fragile bullets with a reputation of coming apart and failing to penatrate. My experience with these is limited though. Having killed 38 elk myself and being around over 100 killed, there are a few givens. Hit anywhere but square in the boiler room or spine, and elk can take a tremendous beating and long tracking. There is few opportunities to shoot an elk. Often you get one chance per season only. There have been several seasons of hard hunting with zero opportunities. I would not take any chances. Silvertips may work well on deer. I have little experience with Hornady's on elk either. Lots of elk are shot every season with cup and core bullets but what is not told is the number that are shot and lost. It does not matter what you have to pay for a handful of premium bullets for the one chance a year to take an elk.
Thanks for sharing. I probably wouldn't use it on Elk anyway as I have other options (.300 Wby and 30-06) but was more just trying to get the complete picture.
I will probably use them on whitetail.
I would love to find a premium bullet for the 358 Win assuming we can ever by primers again LOL Nosler makes a 225 grain Partition in .358 bullets but the reloading manuals shot it to be only moving in the 2300-2450 fts range at the muzzle. Doesn't take very far before it is under 1800 FPS they call their minimum for reliable expansoin.
Funny thing is I have the Nosler manuals Vol 1-5 and they all had the load data for the .358 Win. Then I skipped buying them until I just picked up the 9th Edition and they still show the 225 grain bullets but don't even list the .358 Win instead just skipping right the the .350 Win Mag. I guess they felt nobody was loading their bullet in the .358 Win anymore???