[Pawoodchucker]

I found 8 rounds of a silver tipped bullet. Old I’m assuming but look nice and shiny. So the question is. Should I save these for hunting or are they no different than any other round

 

[marlinluvr]

Shoot ‘em up!

 

[94win30wcf]

what cal?. me I would save em. man cave stuff.

 

[Pawoodchucker]

30-30. In the very worn box. I’ll have to look again. There is a price on the box They are pretty cool looking

 

[CWT]

Pics?

 

[REK]

Save in case of Werewolf attacks?

 

[REK]

Got a box of 170 grain in my collection from my youth. I think the days of sub $5 ammo will not be coming back

REK

 

[SargeMO]

That is excellent deer hunting load.

 

[cajun56]

Silver tips in bottom Remington box. Hollow points in box to left!

 

[CWT]

Silver tips in bottom Remington box. Hollow points in box to left!
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I've got a box of 30-30 reloads in a box just like your silver tip box. I remember my dad using silver tips in the mid 70s.
Brings back memories.

 

[Mavrik]

I have a couple of boxes of silvertips that I picked up off an estate sale. They aren't as old as the other other examples here though as they're in the silver Winchester boxes.

 

[graymustang]

It is really a three piece bullet, soft aluminum nose cap, gilding metal base, lead core. The idea is the soft aluminum cap protects that large section of lead core during handling, but gives way fast when fired and hits something, supposed to be a fast large expander.

 

[NickMc]

I have a box of the Remington Hi-Speeds sitting on a shelf that will likely never be fired. If I come across an old box of ammo that is period correct for a rifle I have, I tend to pick it up for nostalgia alone.

 

[Rifle Shoppe]

My first big game hunt for wild pigs was my Senior year of high school 1973. My Dad took me out of school for 3 days and we drove from Ohio to thr Cumberland Mtns of Tennessee. We hunted at a private Boar Hunting Lodge, named Parched Corn Creek Lodge. I had a new Marlin 30-30 with iron sights. And shot my first pig on the second morning with 170gr Winchester Silver Tips. It was a standing shot at about 50 yds in large open hardwoods on a slope. The round hit the pig broadside square in the shoulders...and passed thru. The pig ran about 30 yds downhill and stopped when he crashed head-on..into a big oak tree trunk. I was a bloodied Big Game Hunter.... I Love Silvertips

 

[vt4ster]

 

[Professor_Cassidy]

Nothing cooler than Silvertips in Nickel cases

These are dummy rounds for display. I still have a partial box of Silvertips I bought in 1977, $7.20
These old boxes (1930’s-1950’s??) are cool

I had my Buttcover done from this ad

Buttcover from Levergun Leatherworks

 

[35REMSHOOTER]

I have a big old box of Silver tips 250gr.
for my Winchester model 71 but these are just for lookin at ..lol

 

[vt4ster]

good stuff

 

[graymustang]

high style, that butt cuff grizzly being an exact image of the grizzly on the ammo box.

 

[BigMuddy]

Killed my first whitetail, an 8 pt. buck, in 1978. Used my Dad’s 336 30-30 and 170 gr. Silver Tip.

Dan