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Favorite corelokt is 165 psp out of 30-06. Great deer load
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I liked the 180 grain round nose in 30/06. Used it on deer, elk & black bear.
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117 in the Bob and 165 in 06.
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Used Core-Lokts exclusively for years in: .35 Remington, .223, 6.5X55, .243. When I got my 6.5 Creedmor, I started using Federal Fusion ammunition which is very accurate in my rifle.
Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want!
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About 360 yards. Cheap Rem 770 (moa), Tasco 6X scope, 150 gr Corelokts.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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A guy I worked with went on a plains game hunt in South Africa about 10ish years ago. He didn’t take his own rifle, instead he rented a Blaser 30-06 from the guide. He shot 17 head of game including a 1400 pound Eland with 19 shots (no misses). What ammo? Regular old Green box Remington 165 grain Core-lokt.
Ron
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. Orwell
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Loaded the 100 gr CL for years for a friend in his Rem 788 243. He took over a hundred deer with it. He loved that bullet. Still have a box or two of them in the shop.
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I bought 140’s for my 7 mags before I started hand loading.
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A guy I worked with went on a plains game hunt in South Africa about 10ish years ago. He didn’t take his own rifle, instead he rented a Blaser 30-06 from the guide. He shot 17 head of game including a 1400 pound Eland with 19 shots (no misses). What ammo? Regular old Green box Remington 165 grain Core-lokt.
Ron I have borrowed rifles on 5-6 foreign hunts. All but once the outfit had 300 Win and 180 corelokts. It works.
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For decades the Core Lokts in 30-30, .35 Rem, 243, .308, and 30-06 have worked for me without issue.
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I have Remington core-lokt ammo in 100gr .243, 140gr .280, 200gr 35Rem, 170gr 32win spl, 150gr and 170gr in 30/30 and more I'm sure, good bullets.
Life is good live it while you can.
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30 cal. 180 gr. Round nose core-lokt. 30-06.
165 gr. RNSP core-lokt 280 rem.
Zero bullets recovered, just good blood trails and always dead game.
happiness is elbow deep in elk guts. NRA life member
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I used a lot of Cor-Lokts for many years... Then I bought a Juenke machine. Easily the worst bullets on the market for jacket uniformity. And they do a lot of meat damage.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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The best 120 gr psp in factory Remington ammo was a core lokt. For years it was availible as a component bullet. Same with the 130 gr ptd sp .277 bullet the worked very well...mb
" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "
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180 round nose in 308 and 30-06, killed good and always had an exit wound.
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220gr .30-06.
Just cause it was different.
-Jake
Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
If you know how many guns you own... you don't own enough.
In God We Trust.
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The 140 6.5 and 130 270s I used all sucked. Huge shallow wounds with fragments everywhere.
I shot a 100 pound buck in the neck with the 260 and it failed to break the spine, blew a 3” hole in the side of his neck though.
Chest shots with no bones hit on small deer and pigs with the offside of the rib cage looking like it had #8 shot embedded in it. Hit a shoulder and pretty much write off eating it.
35 Rem and 30/30 factory loads have been good. Of course about anything resembling a bullet will work at those speeds but they have or had them figured out.
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No limits - tell us what you think.
I’m going with .308/165gr CoreLokt. Fine bullet for medium game in my opinion. Similar to a Hornady Interlock of the same weight. Hornady made those CoreLokt’s for Remington. That’s why they shoot like Interlocks & deliver the same on-game performance.
"I never thought I'd live to see the day that a U.S. president would raise an army to invade his own country." Robert E. Lee
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180gr 300wm. 130gr 270win. 150gr 308 win. It has worked for years. No need to change now.
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