Bullets and loads we wish were still available.

[rem338win]

I would love to have some of the old Winchester 200gr RN load for the 30-06. I had some, shot them all on paper into tiny little groups with 3 rifles, and cant find them anymore.
It would have made a great dark timber load for threading needles through the branches.

 

[1899]

Wait a minute...correct me if I am wrong here, but the old Silvertip was the only bullet that could be effectively used against werewolves...and now the components are no longer available....

One old style bullet that is still available is the 150gr Bronze Point by Remington. Do any of you use those bullets?

 

[Johnn Peterson]

Wait a minute...correct me if I am wrong here, but the old Silvertip was the only bullet that could be effectively used against werewolves...and now the components are no longer available....

One old style bullet that is still available is the 150gr Bronze Point by Remington. Do any of you use those bullets?

No no no, it's the pure silver bullet you're thinking of. Same as the ones the Lone Ranger used.

 

[crazy_davey]

Here are some of the full boxes I had handy. I have multiple boxes of most of these along with many others.

 

[crazy_davey]

A few more:

 

[Gatehouse]

What is interesting is that virtually any and all of the bullet performance from any of the loads listed here, can be duplicated by what we have now.

So don't despair, load them up and shoot!

 

[todbartell]

i coulda guessed WHY NOT would start a thread on old bullets that dont exist anymore
s**t dont exist for a reason, cuz it sucked

Oh, look, a Sabre Tip. Kinda like a Ballistic tip but s**ttier

If anybody wants some 348 Win 200gr Silvertip, I know where there is about five dozen boxes

 

[crazy_davey]

the bullet performance from any of the loads listed here, can be duplicated

Duplicated and surpass.

 

[Gatehouse]

i coulda guessed WHY NOT would start a thread on old bullets that dont exist anymore
s**t dont exist for a reason, cuz it sucked

Oh, look, a Sabre Tip. Kinda like a Ballistic tip but s**ttier

If anybody wants some 348 Win 200gr Silvertip, I know where there is about five dozen boxes

ha ahhaha

No kidding...

"oh wow" a 150gr 30-30 bullet will kill a deer? Oh my how groundbreaking.

 

[crazy_davey]

What you say about Canadians thinking our Canadian ammunition was inferior to the US ammunition is absolutely correct. But in no way was it inferior. After WW2 in what I call, darn it, here I go again, the glory years of shooting and hunting, Jack O'Connor wrote about our CIL ammunition. He considered it so good, that in Outdoor Life magazine, he actually said that hunters going to western Canada to hunt, would do well to wait and get their ammunition in
canada, because it was such good ammunition!

Here you go again, "The glory years of shooting and hunting" . Most of your posts here or in the reloading forum revolve around those years. You often quote Jack like he was a god or something.

Do you really think that if Jack O'Connor or Elmer Kieth were around today that they would still be looking for boxes of old bullets or reloading from their old tattered up copies of reloading manuals, ya right. Maybe for nostalgia reasons and nothing more. They did the best with that they had available at the time but I almost guarantee if either were around today they would have embraced new technologies in hunting, shooting and reloading and would be writing about it.

I like the "old" stuff as well, just have a look in my safe, gun room, book collection or cabin. But in most cases one has to get with the times, we have come a long ways since the glory years of JO and EK.

 

[Gatehouse]

Here you go again, "The glory years of shooting and hunting" . Most of your posts here or in the reloading forum revolve around those years. You often quote Jack like he was a god or something.

Do you really think that if Jack O'Connor or Elmer Kieth were around today that they would still be looking for boxes of old bullets or reloading from their old tattered up copies of reloading manuals, ya right. Maybe for nostalgia reasons and nothing more. They did the best with that they had available at the time but I almost guarantee if either were around today they would have embraced new technologies in hunting, shooting and reloading and would be writing about it.

I like the "old" stuff as well, just have a look in my safe, gun room, book collection or cabin. But in most cases one has to get with the times, we have come a long ways since the glory years of JO and EK.

If JOC had a 130gr TSX, he would have loved it and proclaimed the .270 a "damn good moose cartridge" instead of calling it a "bit light for moose" and the 30-06 being better. Yes, JOC, did say that the .270 wasn't a great moose cartridge, but it was relaly about the light bullets not penetrating enough.

Back then without bonding or mono bullets,they had to rely on heavier bullets for caliber, and with a moose, the 30-0 had a bigger bullet.

Nostalgia is great, I indulge in it from time to time, but make no mistake about it, everything that was achieved "back in the day" can be achieved now- Plus alot more...Even Elmer Keith would have been blown away by the way modern bullets operate. If Elmer had a 140gr TSX, I doubt he would have proclaimed the .270 as a "good coyote" round...

 

[SuperCub]

Here you go again, "The glory years of shooting and hunting" . Most of your posts here or in the reloading forum revolve around those years.

Let the old guys have their fun. 30-40yrs from now, you'll be doing the same.

Seems to me some of your rifles and chamberings are from days gone by as well.

.

 

[crazy_davey]

Seems to me some of your rifles and chamberings are from days gone by as well.

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Seems to me I just said that . Thanks for repeating it though, Alzheimer's setting in SC?

I like the "old" stuff as well, just have a look in my safe, gun room, book collection or cabin.

I have a nothing but a healthy respect for the "Glory days of hunting and shooting". But when one mans posts do nothing but revolve around those years over and over again it gets a bit tiresome.

 

[icehunter121]

303 King Kor softpoints the 220 grain


oh and bullets that shoul have been the 280 Enfield that would have been a great cartridge and tons of surplus brass, That would be my deer gun

That is what I shot my first deer with 30 years ago. 200 yards on a broadside run. Dont have the rifle any more but I still have the mounted horns.

I really wish Hornady would bring back the 340 GR. 416 slug. I have a rigby that would just love to try them out at a insane velocity...

 

[SuperCub]

But when one mans posts do nothing but revolve around those years over and over again it gets a bit tiresome.

You might find these posts "tiresome", but some of these fellows have more experience than you and I will ever have. They offer a nice variety to our knowledge base here which gives us a useful perspective to where we are now in the hunting /shooting we do. One fellow here in particular has guided hunters from all over the world in a place most of us can only dream of hunting in. I pay attention to his opinions and value them as much as other posts that reference more modern topics.

This wealth of information deserves (and gets) my attention and respect.

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[Noel]

You might find these posts "tiresome", but some of these fellows have more experience than you and I will ever have. They offer a nice variety to our knowledge base here which gives us a useful perspective to where we are now in the hunting /shooting we do. One fellow here in particular has guided hunters from all over the world in a place most of us can only dream of hunting in. I pay attention to his opinions and value them as much as other posts that reference more modern topics.

This wealth of information deserves (and gets) my attention and respect.

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X2 Sign me up as a kid who missed getting born on time. I always look forward to hearing what Brucey has to say cuz he was there. There's room for all us misfits on this island.

 

[Republic of Alberta]

Where it gets real interesting is old European bullets that were predecessors to what we have now. Ideas that were long thought of were "reinvented" for the American market. Things like X bullets and expansion stops to increase penetration were done long before they became popular here.

 

[3macs1]

Let the old guys have their fun. 30-40yrs from now, you'll be doing the same.

Seems to me some of your rifles and chamberings are from days gone by as well.

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Yes respect us old farts. We maybe slow but still have a few clues left.
I don't want any old rifle stuff back that I can think of but would kill for a few flats of compression formed winchester 16ga AA shells.

 

[rgv]

Let the old guys have their fun. 30-40yrs from now, you'll be doing the same.

Seems to me some of your rifles and chamberings are from days gone by as well.

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Since there has been virtually no improvement in rifles and chamberings since the 30's, most all have rifles and chamberings for days gone by.

What crazey davey and others are saying, is that as far as the old ammo goes, its like wishing you could get Firestone glass-belted Wide-Ovals for your 2010 Z06 Corvette.

 

[3macs1]

Firestone glass-belted Wide-Ovals for your 2010 Z06 Corvette.[/QUOTE]

In know what you are saying but if you need them it is no problem getting a set of those vintage tires to the same specs today in repo but not in the vet size that I am aware. My chevelle has them but they are too expensive now to smoke em like we once did..
Thanks for taking me back to my happy place