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The high velocity pistol Silvertips have copper (or gilding metal) jackets plated with nickel. It looks shiny enough to be straight nickel or a high nickel alloy. The low velocity rounds have aluminum jackets.
I once took an author to task for arming his heroes' troops with cupronickel jacketed bullets but he pointed out that the popular (in Europe) RWS bullets had them. I didn't get into a debate over the applications of a couple of shots fired at game versus a sustained firefight.
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