Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Why so much hate for Corelokts?

I don't reload and have no interest in doing so. That being said, all my rifles run Corelokts. Why all the hate?

Have never lost a deer, using them. Most were DRT.
Ruger 77 in .270 (i know it's way too gay)
Model 7 in 7mm08 (youth model now on it's second youth)
Model 700 in 7mm mag.

Flame suit on!!


Clyde

I've never seen the need to worry about a "premium" bullet when hunting whitetails. I've killed them with some premiums and a lot more Corelokt bullets. The whitetails never seemed to appreciate the differences in bullet construction when hit in the boiler room. With that said, I wouldn't go chase elk with Corelokts.

Fine for whitetails sized stuff and smaller critters. I've shot 2 elk with them and they came apart, 7-08. Thought the 1st was a fluke but not. Barnes TXS now for all.

I never had any trouble killing deer with Core Lokts. For that matter I've killed bear and Moose with them too.

No hate here....

No hate here either...didn't know they made another bullet until I was 25.

I called in a 56" bull moose and shot it square in the chest at about 30 yds. He turned to run and hit I him in the lungs and he fell over. I was shooting a 7mm mag and 175gr factory core-lokts.

Makes it easier to justify reloading. Just like hating Tikka's, 270's, etc....

A Tikka in 270 shooting Corlokts will cause blindness....

who hates em?

It's fashionable on the internet. In reality with most C&C bullets they are designed to work best at speeds up to probably 2800fps or so unless its designed for a 30-30 etc. For most non magnum rounds that shoot bullets of 120 to 200 gr bullets that covers most of their effective range. I'm willing to bet most of the blowups are out of magnum rounds shooting fairly light for caliber bullets at high speed and at relatively short ranges if you got the whole story.

I have had one C&C bullet blowup in 40 yrs of hunting. It was a early nosler ballistic tip 150 gr 30 cal shot out of my 30-06 loaded hot. A deer showed it self at probably 30 yds and boom a ugly saucer sized hole on his shoulder and a lot of blood shot meat into his chest cavity. Nothing by bits and pieces of bullet found.

The CL is one of my main hunting bullets as I would buy them bulk and reload them. Never had anything but fine performance with them.

Corlokts are one of the best deer bullets to grace a factory load

The next time a Corelokt fails for me in any way at all, will be the first time.

Have used them in a 308, 35 Remington, a 7-08 and a 243 and they all killed stuff quickly. They were also accurate.

All of us rifle loonys would like to make life a lot more complicated, and so the Corelokt seems old timey. Well it is, but it is also one helluva hunting bullet.

Steve

Never knew there was a trend for hate toward Remington Core-Lokt. I seem to recall reading some statistic not too long ago which estimated that more North American game animals had been hunted and killed using Remington Core-Lokts than by all other factory loads combined. Unless they threw the baby out with the bath water, and the current 30-06 180 Core-Lokt is in name only, I'd think it still would put a hole through most any North American game animal. If meat did not make it to the freezer, I doubt it would be the fault of Remington Core-Lokt.

I basically replicate them with most of my handloads.

Remington can't spell them "corelocked" because they'd be expected to act that way.

They don't cost enough for people who hunt with $1000+ rifles and $500+ scopes, and want to brag about it.

I just got home from a 10 day PG hunt in the Eastern Cape of RSA Wednesday

There was a cop from Georgia hunting with a .308 running factory Remington 150 CL's

After 3 lost $1200 animals he borrowed a rifle shooting NAB's and started killing

Animals are built a bit different over there though

The only reason I started buying Hornady bullets is they're cheaper. I still load CoreLokts in my 7-08 & 243.

Dozens of deer and aoudad have fallen to my son't 7-08 and 140 CL's. No problems.

I've seen 3 not make it past the shoulder, that's enough for me.