Gold vs. Silver allocation - My experience and what you guys think?

• •I started this journey after watching the 2008 crash devastate so many friends and colleagues back when I was still a bank manager here in Portland.
• •It really hammered home the need for real diversification outside of just stocks and bonds.
• •I'm sitting on a decent chunk now – somewhere in the mid-$300k range – and I'm really starting to question if my allocation still makes sense.

I've been heavily into precious metals for a while now, probably close to 8 years, and for most of that time it's been about a 70/30 split, gold to silver, in my IRA. I started this journey after watching the 2008 crash devastate so many friends and colleagues back when I was still a bank manager here in Portland. It really hammered home the need for real diversification outside of just stocks and bonds. I'm sitting on a decent chunk now – somewhere in the mid-$300k range – and I'm really starting to question if my allocation still makes sense.

Lately, with all the inflation scares and geopolitical instability, silver has just been killing it. I mean, relative to gold, its performance has been impressive. I’m starting to feel a little foolish for not being more aggressive with it earlier. My initial thinking was always that gold offered a purer form of wealth preservation, less volatile, more liquid. Silver always felt a bit more speculative, but it's hard to ignore those industrial demand factors and the potential for a bigger pop when things get spicy. I used the Eligibility Checker a while back when I was first dipping my toes in, just to make sure I even qualified for a gold IRA, and it was super helpful to get that initial clarity, but it doesn't help with the allocation headache!

My big debate now is whether to rebalance and push my silver allocation closer to 40% or even 50%. The thought of selling some gold to buy silver feels... almost wrong, given its historical stability. But then I look at the gold/silver ratio and current market conditions, and it just screams opportunity. Am I being too emotional here, or is there a genuine case to be made for a higher silver weighting in this current climate? I'm talking about within the confines of a precious metals IRA, obviously, so it's not like I'm trying to time a quick flip.

For those of you with significant precious metal holdings, especially in IRAs, what’s your current gold to silver ratio looking like? And more importantly, what’s your reasoning behind it? Are any of you reconsidering your long-standing allocations because of the current market?