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Trying to decide which shells to get. Been looking at the Federals in blue box or remington core lokts. Will be shooting a 270 wsm 130 grn bullets, for elk. Is there much difference between the two bullets as far as bullet performance?
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cor-lok the brass is just a bit better then the fed brass. if you don't reload then you can sell the brass.
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If I was going after Elk with my .270 WSM with a factory load I would use the 150 grain Winchester Power-Point. It is about the same price point as the two factory loads you mention. It is a little stouter bullet which I prefer in case you get a shot at one up real close.
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good call mohawk
those power point almost always shoot well at least the one I have tried
I would use the 150s If I were to go after elk
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Didn't really think about the Winchester's. Maybe I will have to give them a whirl instead. Im just being cheap, or on a budget this year for ammmo. Was going to buy some Fed Premium, but wanted to look into the less expensive stuff first.
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Elk won't know the difference
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You can kill elk with a 130 cor-loct from a 270? I always thought you needed a 338 Win Mag with a Barnes TSX.
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I would use whatever shoots better. For Elk you might want a little bit better bullet, I believe the Failsafe is loaded by Winchester 150 grains.
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My guess is about $2 to $3 dollars a box. Performance should be about the same.
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Just ran a large batch of 165gr .308 Core-Lokts across the Juenke machine and was again, extremely disappointed. More than 20% were in the junk category with over 30 units of ecentricity... Far fewer made it into the best category, even when standards were lowered. These were bulk packed from Cabela's and may have been seconds, for all I know...
I have shot a ton of them pre-Juenke, and never had any real issues when driven moderately and when accuracy was not a real issue... But the results were not impressive. art
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I've seen factory loaded Core-Lokts that looked like almost every round was seated to a different depth.
They killed stuff fine, just not match grade ammo.
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Back when I shot factory ammo, the Federal and Winchester cheap stuff always shot very accurately and the Remington shot like crap. I don't think the green box stuff ever shot well in any of my rifles and it took awhile to figure out it wasn't the guns. The .270 Win 130gr Federal classic in the grey box was unbelievable. I think they used Sierra bullets.
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I can't see how Remington sells Cor-Locts as components. They are very inconsistent and cost the same or more as Intelocks, Gamekings and Hot-Cors. As a hand loader, I don't even consider Cor-Locts as an option.
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Mmmm, just catching up with this thread, but do you mean Federal Power-Shok... or Winchester Power Point? Just sayin'
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I still have half a box of 160 gr. fail Safes even though they way over penetrate. I tried them out on a few hogs and did shoot a doe last year with one. That bullet may still be going. Somehwere over the south Pacific by now I imagine.
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