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Interesting! I didn’t realize that.

200 grain .358, SP and RN

That 200 RN is a beast!

Seriously! Love to have a few of those on the shelf. Not sure there is a better bullet for a 35 Rem.

Yup, exactly. I liked when you could get them as components for the 35 Rem. They were accurate for me as well.

I have had the worst luck with the cor-Lokt's. I collect spent bullets recovered from actually game. In my collection I have over 100 documented bullets and the game they took. Also have a double handful of bullets from a wild game meat processing plant that has not documentation, just spent bullets of all makes. While guiding big game hunters I got to see lots of deer, elk and antelope shot. Cor-Lokt's failed about as often a Sierra's. Broadside lung shot game isn't much of a test and often about any bullet will work. When put at difficult angles or bone is encountered I find they fail, often. Back when Remington built bullets with actual belts in from 1930's to early 1960's they were better at holding together. If you search Remington catalogs from the early 1970's you can see they no longer have a belt. Early Cor-Lokt hollowpoints of the 1960's and earlier have a great reputation and I have taken several deer and elk with them and the recovered bullets show great performance.

I emailed remington about component bullets, specifically the 30 caliber 180 grain roundnose. Their response was to keep checking for availability on line. So is it safe to assume they are going to offer them?

I bought a 1000 .277 for my 270 win about 35 yrs ago. I still have some left. I payed $73 for the box from Midway. I have shot several deer and 3 hear. I have never complained about it. I also bought some .243 REM coreloc 100 gr. for $10 a hundred about 10 yrs ago . I should have bought 1000 I only shot one deer with them though and it died pretty quick . I was surprise of the damage it did to the shoulder , went out the guts and ruined the lungs and heart. I was very surprised.

200 grain .358 RN in the .35 Remington but I'm glad to find any of the older bullets for the cartridges I shoot. I have them for .30 WCF, .32 Winchester Special, .35 Remington and .358 Winchester, and a small supply for the .348 Winchester. I think but am not sure that I also have some in 6.5 mm hid out somewhere. Got this December 26 with a 200 grain RN in .35 Remington, deer just hate that bullet.

These are collected from dead animals correct?

On the left are both 250gr 35 Whelen one PSP and one RN….the other ones are a 308 Silvertip and a 30-06 Bronze point. I’m not sure what the bullet weights of the last 2 are since they’re just miscellaneous ones I’ve acquired over the years.

I guess the 200 gr .358 RN in factory loaded .35 Rem ammo is the only CoreLokt I have experience with. If given a choice on any bullet for the .35 Rem I'd choose it based on what I've seen it do. It seems about as good a fit to the .35 Rem for use on game as a bullet could be.

140 grain in 6.5 mm....

for a low cost hunting bullet at the time... that thing was unbelievably accurate, and was a darn unbelievable penetrating bullet, due to good sectional density...got a couple of thousand of them once on a close out for dirt cheap.... like 5 cents a bullet or so...

probably still have a thousand or so of them left...somewhere around here...

A reliable 30-06 loaded with 180gr corelokts would be sufficient for me. When I lived in Alaska I was fortunate to travel to many native villages throughout the state. In every village community store one could find corelokts in 30-06. 223 was also common.

And they’ve killed a vast qty of animals.

Heard a quote from someone that said, “Talk to the old guys, they know stuff.”

Funny you mention “brush busting.” The only real brush busting I did was with a core lokt. Not ina brush busting caliber either. I was shooting 180 core lokt factory Remington green box 300 Win Mag. Had a big fat doe at about forty yards looking directly at me behind a huge old 40+ foot blue spruce. It had all kinds of dead branches and crap around the bottom. I put the crosshairs at the base of her neck and touched off a round. She did a somersault and fell dead on her back. Not sure if I got lucky and missed ever branch but I found that bullet just under the hide near the base of the tail after it broke the pelvis. Anyway you slice it that’s great penetration.

Those and 7mm 140 grain Core-Lokt bullets are exceptional.

Taken a bunch of deer in 243 with the 100 gr. Core-Lokt. The farthest was around 330ish. Pass through’s we’re the norm. Most were DRT.

I have shot most of my game with the Remington Core-Lokt ammo and I never felt at a disadvantage. I switched to Nosler partitions for a while and they were also good on game but the Remington were always easy to find and a good price. Used 7 mag/270/300 H&H/7x57.