Is Winchester Silvertip handgun ammo still available ?

yes. Just search the net.

You must not be old enough to remember the original silvertip ammo.

I've got a box of the old stuff, 30-30 caliber. Bought it and just never used it.

I just saw a box of 185 grain .45 ACP Silvertips at Cabela's yesterday.

Bill

Silvertips! Fine ammo. Used them in .30-06 Springfield. Especially in a much loved Remington 1903, the ST gave me some of the smallest groups I ever fired. Extremely effective in hunting. Used them in .357 S&W Magnum in a six inch 28-2. Only shot targets, cans, etc. But I liked them. Glad to see they are available. Will get a box or two for my revolvers simply for old times sake. For my rifle ... no as I already have a pile of hunting and target ammo on hand. Sincerely. bruce.

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You can still find them online at places like Bud's, Midway, Target Sports USA, even Cabela's. Just depends on what caliber you're looking for.

For SD I have and occasionally use 85 gr .380, 175 gr 10mm, 110 gr .38 spl, 210 gr 44 mag and 225 gr 45 Colt. I have a hard time finding 145 .357 magnum, which I used on duty for the 7 years I carried my 686.

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Sadly, the original versions are not available anymore in rifle calibers. You’ll find them in pistol/revolver cartridges...I like the 110 gr Silvertip in 38 Spl.

The 175g 10mm stuff is not too shabby!!

Yes they're still available but expensive and hard to find ( at least in .32 acp). I'm a Seecamp fan, and shot mostly Silvertips through both my .32s until last year. I now shoot a different ammo ( PMC Bronze) that's readily available and a little less expensive.

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John

Winchester Silvertip feeds like a champ through my .38 Super Colt Commanders. Have not been able to find a retail source. Midway says it's been discontinued. Other sources say out of stock and no backorders.

That would probably depend on what caliber you're looking for. I've seen the .357 Magnum 145gr STHP for sale from time to time.

Winchester's website lists the following calibers:

.38 Special, 110gr
9mm, 115gr and 147gr
.380ACP, 85gr
.357 Magnum, 145gr
.40S&W, 155gr
10mm, 175gr
.45ACP, 185gr

How available these are, I can't say. I'd suggest contacting whatever online ammo retailers you trust and ask if they have them, can order them, or notify you when (if?) they get them in stock. Or do the same at LGS in your area.

TargetSportsUSA has 27 offerings in Winchester Silvertip ammo...

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Yep, they come in new look box and are all over cabelas. Just bought 2 115 grain 9mm boxes this weekend. Price was not too bad. I love this round.

Looks like it depends on the caliber you want. A thread 13 months ago on the 145 grain 357's said Winchester made a run every 2 years, and Midway was selling it then from $27 to $30 per 50. Now both Midway and Cabelas show boxes of 20 for $16, with fancy new labeling. It's back-orderable on Cabelas, "coming soon" on Midway, FWIW.

I would love to find some of the 145 bullets to load .357 but I have been told that Winchester does not sell Silvertips as components anymore. Hopefully I was told wrong and will find some one day.

Hmmmmmm.....I bet I still have some old Silvertips in .38 Special and in .32 ACP.

But I still have Black Talon .308s, too.

Some things just remain with me...........

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I happened to see a few boxes in 10mm at a gun show this past weekend. Packaging did not look old or beat up.

As mentioned, they put out batches every now and then.......
and it helps to be an early bird to get a shot at picking it up.

Back in the 60's I loved it in my hunting rifles for deer, very accurate and deadly......
as well as the old Remington "Bronze Tip" that worked out to 400 yards in my 30-06.

No one worried about what a bullet did back in the 60's, so I did not load the high dollar, JHP ,for my small arms.
Lead was the way to go, back then.

The are some of those on the shelf at my LGS.

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If anyone is looking for 357 Magnum Silver Tips, I have several boxes from the mid 1980's that I would part with. Please PM me if interested.

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Midway has the .357 145 grain back in stock. In 20 round or 200 round selections, $0.85 cents to $0.80 per round. So about a $.25 to $0.30 per round higher than the last time they had it. Unfortunately doesn't look like they are selling it in the 50 round economy pack anymore.

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Doesn’t seem like much of anything is available at the moment. Like others have stated they seem to mfg certain calibers in batches- I pick up 200-gr.44 Spl when I can find it.

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Some Might Say.

Still available here!

I still think of rifle bullets with aluminum pointy tips as "Silvertips."

Are we talking about the hollow point bullets that look like they have silver looking jackets here? I've always been curious about this terminology... did Winchester/Olin just reuse an old designation?

Froggie

The original 38SPL, 32ACP, 380ACP, and 45ACP bullet jackets were aluminum with a special lubricant under the cartridge case to ensure expansion at lower velocities. Other handgun Silvertips were a proprietary jacket alloy.
Later production 38SPL, 32ACP, 380ACP, and 45ACP bullet jackets used a similar non aluminum alloy.
The rumor was (Is?) that 32ACP Silvertips were manstoppers all out of proportion to their size.

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I'm with her

Silver tips are in my M696!

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Only difference Fool/Mule-ears

About 65 years ago I did quite a bit of hunting in Western Montana.
I had a Winchester Model 70 with a Weaver K4 scope on it.
I always used 180-Gr. Winchester silver tips. It all worked well on
deer, elk, antelope, bear, etc. When I told my wife I had given the
Model 70 away I got the name crazyphil.

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Before the current crisis sga ammo had .38 specials by the case or box at a good price Im sure everythings gone now but maybe well see them again in the future.

While the new ones come in fancy modern packaging I don't care for the new brass cases as much. Kind of liked the old style nickel plated "silver bullets"!

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I still have an original box of the .357 I keep for my 686. My late dad bought it for the gun which I ended up inheriting when he passed.

Love the picture in post #31.

For some reason, that old style load, made me think of ..........

the Lone Ranger !!

Shot placement is most important than bickering about who’s which flavor of the day shiny hollow point is better.

Research the shooting of Trooper Mark Coates. He shot an attacker 5 times central mass with a .357 magnum 145 grain silvertips, and the subject lives to this day. After killing the Trooper with a single .22LR.

505Gibbs:
I looked up the WW Silvertip 175-gr 10mm. WW lists muzzle velocity as "1200fps".
A number of manufacturers make ~180-grain ammo with velocities at that or above. Sig ammo, when fired from my P220-R5-10-SAO tops their published data, pushing 1300fps.
I really like the 10mm cartridge and have three guns so chambered, all 1911-patter guns, stretching the definition to include the Sig. The higher bullet weights at higher velocity is what I use for hunting hogs. Very effective. Being fair, I acknowledge I have not tried lower-weight bullets at lower velocities on hogs, having seen more than one run off after a solid hit by anything other than a rifle cartridge. I like the power I have observed.

It is my opinion that a lot of commercial 10mm ammo is what I think of as "40S&W-Long," hardly representative of what the cartridge can do. When it comes to plinking I feel the 10mm is unnecessarily expensive. Rather than a lower-power 10mm for other than hunting or certain types of competition, I prefer 9mm, the versatile 357Sig or mid-range power .45ACP. I'm not snubbing the 40S&W, I just prefer others. I load my own of everything except the 357Sig. I just can't seem to master that one.

I can appreciate wanting the effectiveness of the 10mm on targets softer than hogs, that produce less hand-hammering recoil. I purchased some Fiocchi ammo and was glowing over how accurate it was with such low recoil. Then I fired some through my Pro-Chrony. Well under the advertised velocity. Same with some Prvi Partizan. I decided not to use them for hogs, and at the price I was better off using 9mm for informal shooting.

I would be interested in reading your experience with the Silvertip.

Maybe I should trade in my 357 mag and start carrying a 22?

I still have a box of .30-06 Silvertips that I bought back in 1962 when I was in the Army. I had just beautifully sporterized a DCM Model 1903A3 (I know, I know - I can only blame my youth and relative lack of knowledge then) and was going on a hunt with some friends that never materialized for some reason. Not one round in the box was shot; I was going to sight the rifle in with it, but never got around to it.

John

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I found an old box of .32 acp recently and have been practicing with it. Maybe I should save the rest?

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Kevin in Oregon

I still have 4 boxes I will sell, no gouging....357 Magnum from the late 1980's

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I have several boxes of 9mm 115 gr leftover from the late 80’s early 90’s. White boxes with the red and orange stripe

Yep, at least before the corona banic.

Nice load and does double duty againt wherewoofs.

The box of .357 Silvertips that I ordered from Bass Pro on April 5, arrived today.