I had a friend who wanted me to set up his new Mod 742 (back in the early 80s) 30-06 with a scope and zero it for him. Gave me the rifle/scope and a wad of cash. I mounted the Weaver 2x7 on it, and started out with plain Corlokts in 150ptd. It didn't want to shoot well. On a whim, I tried a box of 180 RN Corlokts, and bingo, shot like a varmint rifle! We went to GA and he shot a 180 pound buck out around 80 yds. Nice, 50 cent pc hole all the way through, no bloodshot meat. He thought I was "an expert", ha. Had another friend who used nothing but the 220 RN Corlokts on those small SE Tex bucks/hogs.
My first Deer rifle that I purchased was a Remington 788 in .308 Win. My Father and Uncle happened to attend an auction one day and he won 6 boxes of Remington 180 Cor-lokt RN cartridges for my rifle. We went to zero the rifles before the Michigan opener at my uncle's place, the target, which was simply a plastic coffee can lid nailed to a pallet at 100 yards, was all he ever used for checking zero of his rifles. I lined up for my first shot, aiming at the galvanized roofing nail in the center, and promptly knocked the coffee lid right off the pallet. My Uncle, a slightly cynical sort, asked where I had been aiming, to which I replied "the nail". He tacked it back up and snorted "try it again"......so I did! LOL took the nail right out and flopped the lid onto the ground.....Uncle grudgingly mumbled " that's good enough"! LOL Sure miss him and my father.......
The purpose of that family story is to highlight that I too found RN bullets (especially the Remington Cor-Lokt 180 .308 Win) to be amazingly accurate, and every deer I fired at with that rifle/load died almost instantly. Wish I had more of that old load for that rifle, which I still own.
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