Real performance of Remington bronze points

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Howdy all, I'd always been more of a Winchester ammo kinda guy years ago but I recently came across a large supply of 130gr .277 Remington bronze point bullets. I don't know many people that have hunted with them around here as our hardware store mainly stocked Winchester and some Federal ammo, never Remington...
What are anyone's experiences, good or bad, with these bullets, in any calibres? I'm curious to hear some stories and then I can better decide what I'll do with them. Thanks in advance
 
I used a lot of them in the 80s they were cost effective for me fairly accurate but quite frangible I used them on deer and pronghorn that was before I still have some 30 cal around here somewhere but back then I was a 270 guy
 
I also shot many hundreds of them in several 270s at targets, groundhogs, and big game years ago. They were very accurate, and certainly very frangible.

Lung shots were near-instant death on big game. You would not want to be trying to break heavy bone with them on moose, that's for sure. ;)

Ted
 
A buddy shot a med sized mulie buck where the base of the neck and shoulders join.The bronze point rattled up the full length of the neck bone found in the eye lid.Bang flop ...............but what a mess.
 
I shot one deer back around 1966 with a 150 Bronze point out of a 30-06.
It was pretty fragile [the bullet], and disintegrated completely in the cavity.
Dead deer, but quite a mess, with bits and pieces of bullet jacket/core all
over the place. D.
 
I shot my first bear 30 or more years ago with a 30-06 and a 180 grain bronze point at about 5 yards from a tree stand. The bullet disintegrated on the bear's shoulder joint and I had to shoot it again as it ran away. Good thing I did too or that bear would have gotten away. Post mortem revealed the bullet fragments lodged in the shoulder did not penetrate to the vitals and would not have been lethal. My second shot luckily severed an artery in the rear leg but again failed to penetrate to the vital organs. I kept the fragments to remind myself never to use those bullets.
 
Bronze point 130gr. .270 bullet performance on a deer at less than 10 yards made me start reloading many years ago. I wanted a bullet I could count on, and the only way to get them at that time was as components. Lots better commercial ammo around now.
 
Shot my first deer with a BPE in a 30-06, 150gr iirc but might have been 180gr. Face on, 90 yds, centre chest hit and dropped like it had swallowed a grenade. Which isn't far off from what I found when I gutted it. Bullet came apart spectacularly
 
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My father has a pile of rifles but all he hunts with is his old Sako .270.
I doubt he's ever used anything but the 130 BP's in it. I've seen some pretty spectacular kills with the bullet but he does shoot them in the ribs.
He came caribou hunting a few years ago and shot a trotting bull through the ribs at about 100m. That bull went down so hard it almost bounced!
 
Many years ago I shot my biggest whitetail with a .308 150gr. rem bronze point. Side on rib shot at under 100 yds. dropped the deer instantly, but the bullet never even made it to the far side of the chest cavity. Not even little fragments made it that far. They are WAY too fragile to suit me!
 
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