Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles If Coreloks were available as components?

Only if nothing better is available. Years ago I bought a 500 box of 150 35cal. pointed CLs for loading my buddy's 35 Rem. I moved across country & back & he's moved since then too. If I had a 35 Rem they would get used. Nobody else makes cheap .358 light rifle bullets. They are slowly getting used up as I search for an accurate 200-250yd groundhog load in 358 Norma.

Nope! They’re good bullets…..but nope! memtb

I load them for my 243s, 7x57, and 308. I loaded them for my 30-06 for years and switched to Hornady bullets due to price.

I still have a bunch of CLs purchased about 15 years ago. A business up here had a huge sale, and I got 3 boxes that weighed about 70 lb each. The post office guy wasn't impressed. They were all 308 diameter. I used them for everything. Would I use them again? Yes, but the price would have to be right.

CL and Winchester bullets used to be cheap. They were dynamite in 224 and other diameters too. These days, Speer, Hornady and the no name bullets have seriously ate into what used to be their territory. And more people like premium bullets now.

Win and Rem do not offer the weights and diameters that they used to. I don't think that it was because they needed them for their own ammunition. Over time, sales dropped.

Win and Rem bulk bullets aren't the bargain they used to be.

I've had the Powerpoints shoot VERY well in a few rifles. The only Corelokts I have are 7mm and .358. I never loaded the 7mm but shot a bunch of the .358's. I still have quite a few of the SP and RN. Though they are not as accurate as some other bullets, I think they're the toughest .358 200 grn.

NOPE , there are alot better bullets than Coreloks to load.

I have never heard of a CL failure. Not sure why the negative comments.

I still use my good stock in the 260 and a few 165 308’s I load for my buddy. Balance the weight velocity and the terminal target and they are as good as any cup and core. I too bought them for the value but doesn’t change the fact that they work Just fine.

I wouldn’t be in the market for them today but if I was just starting out & they were as cheap as they once were and available, I’d pick some up.

Growing up I had a buddy who used to repeat ad nauseam the Deadliest Mushroom in the Woods tagline as he opened his green & yellow boxes of slow speed .270’s.

Think:

Campfire-Leupold

Shrapnel, I think you hit it on the head.

Yeah, used to be able to get 500 for about $50. I have a bunch of the .358 200 SP and RN's left luckily.

They did used to be cheap in those green bags. For components, I liked it when the Fusion bullets were available and economical.

Used them in the 6mm,270,30-30,308,8x57 with no complaints. Everything shot with them is still dead.

I loaded a lot in the nineties and killed a pile of game with the 165s in a 30-06 and 300 win. I worked up a load for a friends M77 Tanger that shot the 180s into a very small ragged hole.

If anyone needs 140 gr .264 Corelokts I have 200 I'd let go for $55 shipped

I used to have a Model 70 stainless synthetic 7mm rem mag that would literally tear a ragged hole with the green and yellow box 150's. I bought 1000 of them through Midway for I believe 89.99. I still have about 100 of them and am loading them in my Model 70 Featherweight in 7x57.
Wish I still had that stainless synthetic.

I tried the 185gr 8mm in my 325wsm Kimber Montana and they shot like buckshot. I believe I'll let them go.
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As to buying them now, not as long as Nosler. Speer, and Hornady are selling bullets.

Indeed.

Loaded a bunch of the 100 gr for .243. A long time friend killed north of a hundred deer with that bullet. He thought it was the bestest. His 243 shot it very well at 2850-2900.
Still have a box or two of them.

GreggH

I have 400 200 grain .358 CLRN for my .35 Remington pump rifles and 400 200 grain CLSP for the .358 Browning . For the hunting I have they are great so yes I would. I wish I could find them in other calibers .