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That's a bargain!

The 130 CL out of a 270win would be my favorite. 35-40 years ago every Mom & Pop country store had the shelves stocked with Green Boxes. They were and are plenty accurate and deadly. Always a nice pretty red trail leading to a critter.
I still load and use them occasionally. My stock pile of CL’s is almost gone.

Dandy bullet!

I absolutely hated that load. I'd shoot deer right behind the shoulder and they'd run 150 yards. I was so glad when my Dad switched us over to 150 Core-Lokt and they would always be down within 50 yards

That's exactly why my dad said we had to use that trash round. He finally listened to me and switched us when he hit a good buck through the liver and it made it onto posted land where he could not get permission to pursue it

For many years I shot 180 grain flat base CL's in my 03 and then in my 721 30-06. I got a good deal on 150 and 170 grain RN CL's and have been shooting them in my 30-30's and my 30-40's.

The 200 grain 358 CLRN has always been an awesome bullet in a 35 Rem. Love that bullet and how it pounded deer.

This year the old Colonel took his bull with the 180 RNs. Worked fine.





I used the point 200 grain factory stuff in my 35 Whelen and they never made it through normal sized whitetail does or a good 8 point the first year I used that rifle. Just found shrapnel on the ribs. Maybe a bad batch but that’s what pushed me to better bullets in the Whelen.

Ordinarily though, their bullets are usually pretty serviceable.

Big fan of the 117 roundnose .257 Bob and 200grn .35 Rem factory ammo.

Don't know about "favorite", but the most blood I have ever blown out of a deer was with a 180gr CL PSP factory load out of a Ruger No. 3 .30/40 Krag. Ray Charles could have followed that very short blood trail.

I have used CoreLokts a lot in the past, but they have changed. I have experienced that they aren't as tough as they used to be. This makes no difference if used on deer are such, but if you are after elk it is my opinion there are better choices nowadays especially if you are using a high-velocity round.

Yeah, back in the day, they were often lumped into the same category with Nosler Partitions. I don't know about that, but I put them in the same league as Interlocks, which stands to reason since Hornady used to manufacture the Core-Lokts for Remington.

Great pics Scotty! You boys look pretty happy!

We were on Cloud 9

Never found a reason to use anything other than the 170 gr 30-30 factory load. I still have about 5 boxes of them on reserve.

Great post and pic Scotty. As for Remington corelocts that I've used, when I was young I burned up a lot of 220 grain 30-06 ammo. That stuff worked very well, but deer and jack rabbits and lizards are the only thing I used them on in the desert. My grandpa gave me a big ammo box full of them. Probably 50 boxes of ammo in there, so I had to shoot them up...

I've seen a lot of bad things happen in the 270 and 30/06 with Corekots.


I like them in the 35 Rem and 30/30.

On deer or bigger game?

Killed my first deer in 1976 with a .270 and the 150 grain RN core-lokt and this year got one with a .257 Roberts and the 117 grain RN core-lost. Worked fine on both😁👍

PennDog

Deer, all shoulder blow-ups.

Wow

100 gain in .243 win. Those suckers eat!