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Favorite corelokt is 165 psp out of 30-06. Great deer load

Lou

I liked the 180 grain round nose in 30/06. Used it on deer, elk & black bear.

117 in the Bob and 165 in 06.

Used Core-Lokts exclusively for years in: .35 Remington, .223, 6.5X55, .243. When I got my 6.5 Creedmor, I started using Federal Fusion ammunition which is very accurate in my rifle.

About 360 yards. Cheap Rem 770 (moa), Tasco 6X scope, 150 gr Corelokts.

A guy I worked with went on a plains game hunt in South Africa about 10ish years ago. He didn’t take his own rifle, instead he rented a Blaser 30-06 from the guide. He shot 17 head of game including a 1400 pound Eland with 19 shots (no misses). What ammo? Regular old Green box Remington 165 grain Core-lokt.

Ron

Loaded the 100 gr CL for years for a friend in his Rem 788 243. He took over a hundred deer with it. He loved that bullet. Still have a box or two of them in the shop.

GreggH

I bought 140’s for my 7 mags before I started hand loading.

I have borrowed rifles on 5-6 foreign hunts. All but once the outfit had 300 Win and 180 corelokts. It works.

For decades the Core Lokts in 30-30, .35 Rem, 243, .308, and 30-06 have worked for me without issue.

I have Remington core-lokt ammo in 100gr .243, 140gr .280, 200gr 35Rem, 170gr 32win spl, 150gr and 170gr in 30/30 and more I'm sure, good bullets.

30 cal. 180 gr. Round nose core-lokt. 30-06.

165 gr. RNSP core-lokt 280 rem.

Zero bullets recovered, just good blood trails and always dead game.

I used a lot of Cor-Lokts for many years... Then I bought a Juenke machine. Easily the worst bullets on the market for jacket uniformity. And they do a lot of meat damage.

The best 120 gr psp in factory Remington ammo was a core lokt. For years it was availible as a component bullet. Same with the 130 gr ptd sp .277 bullet the worked very well...mb

180 round nose in 308 and 30-06, killed good and always had an exit wound.

220gr .30-06.

Just cause it was different.

-Jake

The 140 6.5 and 130 270s I used all sucked. Huge shallow wounds with fragments everywhere.

I shot a 100 pound buck in the neck with the 260 and it failed to break the spine, blew a 3” hole in the side of his neck though.

Chest shots with no bones hit on small deer and pigs with the offside of the rib cage looking like it had #8 shot embedded in it. Hit a shoulder and pretty much write off eating it.

35 Rem and 30/30 factory loads have been good. Of course about anything resembling a bullet will work at those speeds but they have or had them figured out.

225 Grain 338 Win mag

Hornady made those CoreLokt’s for Remington. That’s why they shoot like Interlocks & deliver the same on-game performance.

180gr 300wm. 130gr 270win. 150gr 308 win. It has worked for years. No need to change now.