Remington Bronze Points

[Paul5388]

The bronze point has been around since the 1950s. Mostly used in 270 and .30-06. My dad used them with good success, but couldn't handle the recoil from the old Rem pump and bought a M700 in 7mm Mag in 1963 or 1964.

Since Midway still sells bronze point bullets in .30-06 and I have some, I checked to see if they were actually plastic. You can cut them with a knife and there is still bronze under the cut.

I don't know when the silvertips came out, but I think I carried some in .30-30 around 1956.

Do you really think they're made with the same jackects they were made with 50 years ago? Why would you continue with a failure for 50+ years? The answer, you wouldn't.

I got to thinking the knife wasn't a good enough test, so I went back out and cut a tip with wire cutters. Trust me, the tip is bronze.

Here's a bronze point deer, but I don't know why my dad was holding a Marlin .30-30 when he used a Rem 760 on it.


Ken14, my dad lived in Palestine on E. Lamar before he died three years ago.