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I wish I would have stocked up on them when they were made. Not many choices now.

What caliber are you looking for?

Got a good supply at a local estate auction a few years ago. Dynamite box full of bullets, didn't get to look through before bidding happened. What calibers/weights you looking for, have some I'll likely never use.

Got any .348 you don't plan on using ? Always on the hunt for Core Lokt and Silvertips to keep my 71 fed or 200 grain Core Lokt RN for .35 Remington.

7mm 140gr or 150gr. 165gr .308.

I got an email a while back from remington. I asked if they would ever consider selling 30 caliber 180 grain roundnose bullets. They said keep checking their site for them. Hopefully they will sell them. I've been using sierra or hornady roundnose bullets when I can find them

I like 180 RNs in my 06

I bought some off the classifieds a few years ago. 180gr RN Corelokts are "the poor man's partitions!"

But "the deadliest mushroom in the woods".

I looked on remingtons site for their roundnose component bullets. They list the 180 grain roundnose, but it is unavailable. So apparently they're eventually going to sell them. I hope

I had a Sako 270 that didn’t like anything but round nose bullets

I don't like the low ballistic coeficients of round nose bullets, so even though I've never shot a big game animal at over 350 yards, I've never seen a use for them in my rifles other than my lever action Winchesters.

However, I have shot a ton of round nose jacketed ball ammo in my .45 acp and 9mm pistols.

I just loaded up 20 hornady 180 grain roundnoses on my 308. I never liked roundnose bullets either. I shot a few deer with them, and now I use them almost exclusively. Most of our in the woods shots are really long bow shots. Plus, the load I use in my 308 is super accurate.

I loaded 20 rounds of 308 with 150gr RN Sierras for a Ruger Hawkeye I'm buying off the classifieds. Shots are usually less than 100 yards and I'm mounting a Leupold Big Bore 3 scope on it.

Are most .30cal. 150gr. RN bullets designed to work at .30-30Win. speeds, or are some made tougher?

I enjoy the Hornady 180 grain round nose bullet in several of my .308s. It is accurate and effective. For several years I bought 5 or so boxes whenever they were on sale. I can't find them any more but I have more than enough to last me through my last hunt and trip to the range-whenever they occur.

GrimJim

Sierra makes flat nose bullets for the 30-30 and lists the BC for the RN at 2700 and less. Other than that I can't say. I have shot a doe with a Sierra 150gr RN from a 300 Savage and got great results.

There is magic in a 220 grain rn from an 06.

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Killed my first deer long ago with a 30-06 with a 180 gr. Round nose core-lokt. A shot from about 25 yards looked like you pushed the deer sideways then stumbled off another 20-ish yards and fell over dead.

Didn't realize what a good thing that big round bullet was for deer or any big game till shooting a few other animals with pointy bullets. I noticed how most the time the critter would manage to travel just a little further or did not react at the shot like that first deer did.

In my .280 the 165 gr. Soft point core lokt is a favorite load. This load just slaps deer down fast consistently complete with nice large exit every time.

Shot a 200 lb black bear with that load broadside around 50 yards, it simply just fell over dead, not a twitch. Only bone hit was a rib in and two rib on the exit. Yet to have another bear done in that fast with the same hit, that's including A 338 win mag and a 45-70 on other bears.

To bad the round nose seems to be vanishing....