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[Irons78]

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[jethunter]

Fairly certain it is Dominion.

 

[B]

Yup, Dominion Kling-Kore.

 

[tiriaq]

Agreed. What did they call the plastic points SabreTips?

 

[bb07]

Agreed. What did they call the plastic points SabreTips?

Yes. I still have some in .30-06

 

[Irons78]

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[OldDude]

Thanks fellas! I'd be really interested to see how these expand given the plastic tips and those triangular indents.

I would suspect the triangular indents would hold the base of the bullet together after the front half has expanded.

Is the polymer tip hard or soft, relative to a thumbnail scratch test?

 

[Irons78]

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[Raton57]

When you hit bone they explode and you get a lot of blood shot meat.

 

[Leatherstocking]

Hard for the tubular magazine in the 30/30?

 

[tiriaq]

I believe the first SabreTip bullets Dominion made were for the .303. The feed ramps in Lee Enfields really chewed up soft point bullets.

 

[bjmurata]

I have a couple boxes of those stashed away here, they were pretty common rounds at one time among the guys I hunted with who had 30-30 levers.

 

[supernova]

I have about 6 rounds of those in an Imperial box. Neat find for sure.

 

[Burton Urnie]

It seems already established, they are Dominion. I still have several brand new boxes full.

 

[supernova]

 

[bugs]

had some back in the day worked fine on deer good luck

 

['Boo]

170 Grain Imperial Sabre Tip designed for the 30-30. The copper jacket is staked to the core - similar to the Kling Kore bullets - to help reduce the possibility of separation. The 150 grain 30-30 Sabre Tips were a beautiful blue colour so you didn't get them mixed up.

I shot more than a few deer years ago with the 170 grain design and never found them any more destructive than other 30-30 bullets.