Remington Bronze Point Bullets
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Bringing a high price? Or asking a high price with no bids.
Right now an auction (auction ends in 9 minutes with 10 bids) is at $30.99 for 39 bullets.
Before they were discontinued they were $45 for a box of 100.
That current bid price for a discontinued product isn't so bad if you want them.
Some folks thought Bronze Point was perfect for big game like moose and elk,
but Remington always said they were for medium game like deer.
The bronze tip doesn't make it penetrate more, but helps it open up better.
On the other hand I have 2 full boxes plus some loaded ammo.
If the price really does go crazy, maybe I should pay more attention.
Right now an auction (auction ends in 9 minutes with 10 bids) is at $30.99 for 39 bullets.
Before they were discontinued they were $45 for a box of 100.
That current bid price for a discontinued product isn't so bad if you want them.
Some folks thought Bronze Point was perfect for big game like moose and elk,
but Remington always said they were for medium game like deer.
The bronze tip doesn't make it penetrate more, but helps it open up better.
On the other hand I have 2 full boxes plus some loaded ammo.
If the price really does go crazy, maybe I should pay more attention.
Wis-Harpo
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I suppose because they are not made anymore. The last ones I found were about 10 years ago, and they were hard to find then. We are a capitalist system--- charge what the public will spend, or HAS to spend.
I suppose because they are not made anymore. The last ones I found were about 10 years ago, and they were hard to find then. We are a capitalist system--- charge what the public will spend, or HAS to spend.
Scooter22
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I don't know if they are making them anymore. They were Remingtons premium bullet with controlled expansion like the Ballistic Tip bullets offered these days. But the bullet tip was a bronze cap/wedge instead of polymer.
I don't know the exact year, but some time before 2010 they stopped selling Bronze Point Tip projectiles (abbreviated BRPT) for reloading. But they still sold ammo with BRPT for a few years thereafter. Or that might have been old stock still being distributed? I don't know. BRPT stopped when they started selling their Premier Accutip ammo.
John Nosler mentioned in lots of interviews that his polymer tip was predated by Remington's bronze point. He saw the value of the concept. And then made a fortune improving it.
Hornady says (read it here http://www.hornady.com/store/ELD-X ) some polymer tips 'melt' due to aerodynamic friction. Don't argue with me about it, just read it at Hornady and argue with them. Clearly a bronze point won't melt, perhaps that is their advantage. Otherwise they work like any other ballistic tip.
John Nosler mentioned in lots of interviews that his polymer tip was predated by Remington's bronze point. He saw the value of the concept. And then made a fortune improving it.
Hornady says (read it here http://www.hornady.com/store/ELD-X ) some polymer tips 'melt' due to aerodynamic friction. Don't argue with me about it, just read it at Hornady and argue with them. Clearly a bronze point won't melt, perhaps that is their advantage. Otherwise they work like any other ballistic tip.
snuffy
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There, I fixed it for you!
Back in the 50's, my brother had to shoot a camp meat whitetail doe 4 times with his 30/40 Krag because he kept hitting a rib on the chest. The 180 bronze tip would shrapnel on the rib, fail to penetrate the chest cavity. The deer would fall down because of energy dump, but get back up right away. It created a nasty wound that would eventually kill the deer with no blood trail for tracking. The forth round finally slipped between two ribs, worked like it should to turn the lungs into soup.
The bronze tips were and still are way too fragile in whatever caliber they were loaded in. Same goes for the Nosler (BT) ballistic tips,,(bombs). Unless the box specifically says for hunting. The BT is a very accurate bullet, but they expand violently, especially if they hit bone.
Reloadron
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They were Index 6030 and Index 6130 for 150 grain and 180 grain respectively. I still have a box of each and no clue when they came into my life. Both boxes still have a Garretsville Hardware price sticker of $7.70 so figure 38.5 cents per round.
Other than t a collector I really do not see them as having much value. Interesting though a reminder of years gone by. A box of Remington 30-06 that sold for 38 cents a round in a local hardware store. Remember local hardware stores where the .22 rifle on display was off the cover of Boys Life magazine and not owned by a mega chain?
Ron
Other than t a collector I really do not see them as having much value. Interesting though a reminder of years gone by. A box of Remington 30-06 that sold for 38 cents a round in a local hardware store. Remember local hardware stores where the .22 rifle on display was off the cover of Boys Life magazine and not owned by a mega chain?
Ron
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