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As MD said Rem changed the jackets on the CLs. Fortunately I never got ahold of the thin jackets.

I bought bulk 270/130 & 6mm/100s and still use them. I push both at 3100 fps or more .
Honest injun those are 'tougher' than the Hornady's.

Too many have complained of the Cls separating so I don't doubt it.

Jerry

I prefer the Pro Hunters to the Game King and have had great results with them. The only difference I can tell are a flat base vs boat tail. I believe the Interlock has more antimony in the core and is harder than the Sierras. Our best results with the 130 Pro Hunter in a couple of 270s was running them around 2800 fps.

Sierra Gamechangers are very impressive in a 6mm creedmoor. I suspect they’d be equally impressive or even better in a 270 or ‘06.

For me, Nosler BT, Speer, and Hornady are 1,2 and3 in a 270. Never fooled much with a 30-06

Use a 7x57 and everything is good.

for around 10 - 15 years i helped a friend with his Wild Game Processing business back around late 80`s tell around early 90`s for first 10 days of deer and antelope season,we even got i whole carcass`s of buffalo,elk,moose and a bear once in a while .during those 10 days we processed 300 plus animals in those 1st 10 days and for the whole season Owen at his meat shop did over 700 animals every year. it was at Gillette,Wyoming for my friend Owen Heins and his wife "Willie ". i also every mourning caped many game animals too. my deal was i stayed there in the house with them ,ate there ,worked many hours sometimes tell 3 a.m. but Owen always had cold beer for us all and meat sticks too. those were some good times and i learned plenty about bullets,rifles,scopes and even knives used for hunting on big game animals. Nosler company guys came there,Hornady too ,plenty regular guys like me used their own handloads,some hunters used Remington CoreLokt ammo too. i always asked all hunters what rifles,scopes, bullets and cartridges they used most told me in great detail about there hunts. very few hunters had much good to say about Corelokt bullets and i also seen after i took the hide off that animal that sometimes bullets that failed on animals,that animal was shot again and again was kinda a mess too many of these shot up game animals were shot with Corelokt bullets. after a few years of seeing what happened with a poorer bullet i switch to Nosler Partitions for reloading, i got given to me 100 Gr. Nosler Partition bullets for my 257 Weatherby Mag.from another dear friend Jonny Bell and i never had a failure with this great bullet ,,myself in those years i shot and ate around 10 big game animals a year, my kids loved antelope and deer meat. i alway kinda wondered why did some Corelokt bullets fail but some worked fine i guess what has been posted on this site explains the reason about these Corelokt bullets.Pete53

Been using the .277/150 gr. Speer Grand Slam (current production), at ~ 2800 fps, for a few seasons now.



Has performed great on deer and hogs.

$0.22/pop w/ rebate.




GR

I think for the money the hot-cor, grand slam, and interlocks are hard to beat

Maybe Mule Deer will chime but didn't I read before that for a period of time Remington was loading Hornady Interlock as their CoreLokts?

They were. Occasionally, companies would source bullets from other businesses to keep production going.

I have some late 80's 35 whelen remington loads that are loaded with 250 gr RN hornady's. Have also heard that early 140 gr ptd corelokt's for the 7-08 were Hornady 139gr SP's but don't know that for a irrefutable fact.

That 7-08 stuff popped into my mind too.

Around 1990 the then-PR guy for Remington sent me some Core-Lokt factory loads for testing, in various cartridges. During my tests I discovered through sectioning bullets,that they didn't have jackets nearly as thick as CLs used to--but that some (not all) had something that looked very much like the Hornady Interlock ring in the jacket. And those bullets also had a secant ogive, just like Hornady Interlocks, unlike the original Core-Lokt Pointed Soft-Points, which had the more conventional tangential ogive.

I informed the PR guy (who I'd known for a long time) of this, and he got pretty PO'd--because nobody in the production end had ever informed him of any of it. He was also nearing retirement age, and decided to pull the plug maybe 2-3 years later.

This is only related to bullets used by 'other' companies.

I got 1 or 2 (?) boxes of Winchester 6.5 X 55 with 140 gr 'soft point' with the purchase of a Win 70 FTWT.
I killed a few deer with them and they worked -- I graphed them @ 2750 fps.

I shot a few into my pond dam and recovered them. They expanded back to the "Interlock". You could see it plainly.
I took pix and posted them @ 2012 or so. UNFORTUNATELY those pix are on PhotoPUKEIT and I can't upload them to
any site today.

Those factory Win 140 were Hornady Ils.

Jerry

Wesley2 said he had good luck with the 6mm Gamechangers on deer. I had a very different experience with the 165s out of a 280 Ackley on a bull elk. Ranges during my rodeo were 175 to 390 yards and 3 out of 4 shots were tight behind the shoulder. No bullets reached the ribs on the off side and no bullets were recovered. Muzzle velocity was 2975 FPS. All three shots appeared to be blow-ups. The bull staggered 75-100 yards into some quakies and was finished with a shot to the neck. I wouldn’t wish the experience on anyone.

There are those among us that think......this is ideal bullet performance! memtb

I guess I'm someone who's never had a Core-Lokt fail. Between my two son's and I we've killed a lot of game with them and they always worked fine. They haven't always been the most accurate, but when a rifle liked them I used them. I have some bulk stockage of them in several diameters. I've also used other bullets on game; lots of Nosler Partitions, and some Speer HOT-CORs. For, the first time a couple of years ago I used a 150TSX on an average size Shiras moose. It performed remarkably well. But since I have several thousand Core-Lokts in stock, I'll also continue using them and some Winchester Power Points. YMMV

This & Nosler BT

I must be easy to please. I've shot truckloads of game including pigs, goats, fallow deer and a nice red stag with the 150 gn Power Point from my .30/06. It seems to kill very effectively, and with a well-placed shot on game this size it opens fast, does great damage inside and drops them on the spot. That being the case it doesn't matter to me whether they exit or not, and in fact I'd prefer the massive damage inside the animal over a tough bullet which does less damage but punches through the far side and keeps travelling.

I've also used the 150 gn CorLokt, and it worked about as well. The Winchester has been more accurate in my rifle though, so I've stuck with it.

I will say this though, for larger game, including sambar deer, I choose something a bit heavier, such as the 185 gn Lapua Mega, though the 180 gn Hornady Interlock has also done the job. I've also used the 220 gn CorLokt in .30/06, and it killed big pigs very well, though didn't seem any tougher than the 150 gn. It is not up with the Woodleigh, for example, nor even the Lapua Mega.

I've tried a fair range of others, from 110 gn to 250 gn, but the 150 gn PP is the one I've settled on for medium-sized game with the .30/06.

Yes, I have always found the Power Points work better than Core Lokts. I don'tt know about "stronger" They stay together better for me, especially as relates to newer Remingtons. The Rermingtons are more available around here so I use more of them.

Since I am retired and have a little more time to reload I use mostly Interlocks for practice and NPT's for hunting.