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

It's been a long time since I bought Remington or Winchester component bullets, but both companies used to sell most or all of their bullets as components. I can remember buying Bronze Points, Silvertips, etc.

Ghostman, I sent you a PM regarding your 200 .264 Core Lokt bullets.

I started handloading back in the late 70s. We used t get bulk packs of Corlokts and Power Points. Great deer/hog bullets in 30-30, 308, 30-06. When "Frontier" (Hornady) came out with factory ammo, it was loaded with Hornady SP. man they were accurate! I used them in a .308 (150) and 7mm RM (154). So I started handloading Hornadys. Then Nosler came out with their Ballistic Tip ( never used Partitions until 1980, 150 in 7MM RM) liked them best. I still have some .30 180 CL bulk and some 170 30-30 bullets too.

I would not load Core-lokt bullets not because they are bad bullets but because there are so many other better (cheap) options like Hornady Interlocks, Speer Grand Slam and others....Good luck...Hb

I have 500 140s in protected point Spitzer 7mm or whatever they call them. The deadliest mushroom in the woods!

I would if I could get 30 caliber 180 grain round nose.

I liked the round nosed versions but I always felt the Winchester Power Point was a better bullet. That and no in my reloads I don't want garden variety factory cheap bullets in my brass.

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LOL I'm with you Rick....so many bullets to try...so little time....:)

I've had a good run with the .257 100gn CL. I bought 500 years ago and still have a couple of hundred. They shot through pigs and one solid fallow buck. They perform pretty much like the 100gn Hornady SP.

If they were the originals with the inner belt I'd consider them, but AFIK that went away years ago, leaving them just another cup and core. One of the “new” ones in 180gr factory .30/06 ammo stopped under the hide after passing through the shoulders of a nice, but not giant buck back in the late 90s. He was very much dead right there, but I was surprised that the famous grizzly bear bullet didn’t sail on into the blue.

Haven’t seen any for sale, but the price on Remington’s site is over $50 a box. I’m still working on the $9 a box (50) closeout Partition Golds I bought from Grafs sale sheet way back when, plus a lot of others from SPS.

They are available, at lease they were because I bought some just for trigger time. I’d buy them again if they were cheap enough just to load in 308 for my sons AR 10. That’s all I’d use them for.

I bought a used 6.5CM that came with a box of Rem factory ammo, corelokts… My first group with my hand loads was .65”, first group with the Rem’s was a solid 3.5”. My son did even better with them with a solid 4.25” group. I told him to shoot the rest so we could reload the brass

So many armchair long range “hunters” who think that a bullet which groups one half moa is so much better than one which only groups 1.5 moa. Complete disregard for bullet terminal performance, which the CoreLokts are well known for over the past seventy years. Are all Interlocks great? Are all BTips? Not likely. I’ve used all three and all work in particular uses. But it’s hard to beat a 200 RN CoreLokt in the .35 Remington, or the 165 BTip in the .300 Savage. The wise hunter chooses the best bullet for his needs, not committing to only one brand…






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The terminal performance of many Core Lokt bullets has changed considerably over the years.

Nosler Partitions have been around a long time ,if your hunting trophy animals or bigger big game animals why use a lower grade bullet ? sure load Core -Loks just to shoot at paper but when i have a decent rifle ,my handloads i want a bullet that i can depend on when i shoot a big game animal. i am no arm chair person and i am sure plenty more are not either on this site. after 58 years of hunting and 45 years a handloader and have always butcher plenty big game for myself , family and working at a wild game processing plant so probably done well close to 1,000 butchered animals , i have seen what bullets have done and what cartridges have been used out of what gun.

yes, if I could get the round noses with all that exposed lead.

Bingo!

As long as interlocks are avaliable.....nah.

I guess I just been lucky as I have never had any issues with them . Never had a complaint from any of the Deer I have shot with them , they fell too fast to complain.

They also make a Core-Lokt Ultra Bonded. I picked up a couple hundred .30 cal/ 180 gr at the beginning of the pandemic. Haven't got around to shooting any yet. I got them to help out my hunting pards who don't reload.

I'm willing to trade them 1 for 1 for 6.5 / 140 gr Accubonds.

Deer don't take a lot of killing. For my taste a relatively "soft" bullet is what I want to use.

I'm talking about the significant reduction in side wall jacket thickness of the pointed soft point versions over the years. The 180 grain 30-06 ammo my old neighbor used for his elk hunts back in the day had a tougher bullet than the ones that have been loaded for a good while now.