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Posted: 5/20/2008 6:41:38 PM EDT
| I've got a box of Winchester 10mm Silvertips that have been gathering dust for a couple years. Today I got to looking at them, and realized I have no idea what the jacket material is. Is it aluminum, or what? Anybody know? Was it just a marketing gimmick? |
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When Winchester first cam out with the Silvertip, the jackets were made from aluminum. I think they had problems with fouling and so they added some sort of liquid coating to the bullet, which they later found killed powder, when it seeped into cartridges. So now Winchester uses standard jacket material (copper, gilding metal?) on the Silvertips, with the exception of .45 ACP and .32 ACP. which if you look at the rounds, the bullets actually do look different. I think they can get away with the aluminum in these rounds, because of the lower velocity. Winchester still finishes the jacket silver colored, but i'm not sure what process they use. Incidently, Winchester was selling standard hollow point rounds in their inexpensive USA white box line, and most of these hollowpoints were "uncolored" Silvertips. |
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