629shooter
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The are some of those on the shelf at my LGS.The 175g 10mm stuff is not too shabby!!
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Winchester Silvertips
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GoDevil Man
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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.
Zebra War Wagon
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Still available here!
Green Frog
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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
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
Tex1001
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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.
Silver tips are in my M696!
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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.
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.
heeter3
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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.
GoDevil Man
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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 !!
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.
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.
Harkrader
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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.
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.
cmj8591
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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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hogblue
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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
