Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Rem Core-lokt and Hornady Interlock

Does anyone else get the feeling these are one in the same?
I am sure Remington doesn't make their own bullets.

IMHO, I think that they're different because the Remington Core-loct has been around for 50 years or so.

Ijust bought a bunch of Remingtons and I was comparing them last night. They are different looking anyway. Cannelure doesn't line up and the ogives don't either.

I've loaded with both.

Hornady Interlocks have a higher level of polish, the Corelokts can have a much less gloss-- at least the bulk bullets I've used. The bullets also have different BC numbers. I think they are similar in some ways, but not identical.

It may be my imagination, but I think the Corelokts open up a bit faster than the Hornadys and don't hold together quite as well. With the few bullets I recover from the dirt, the Interlocks seem to have more retained mass. The Remmies are more likely to show up as bare shreds of gilding metal. That is not a scientific analysis-- I admit. It also does not keep me from buying both Remmie and Winchester bulk bullets for various chores.

Remington has been making bullets, brass, and loaded ammo for a lot longer than Hornady. The original core-lokt design is also different, the jacket is thin up front, with skives(cuts) in the front jacket, while the mid-section of the jacket is thick, it then tapers to a thinner shape towards the rear. The theory is that the core wouldnt slip the jacket as easily, because of this hour-glass shape of the jacket.

The Hornady inter-lock has a conventional jacket design, thinner up front tapering to a thicker mid section, but it also has the lip of jacket material that extends into the core to lock it in place. Also if you compare a round nose reminton to the hornady you will see a big difference. The core-lokt round nose has a scalloped profile of the jacket, while the inter-lock has the traditional straight edge at the transition to the lead tip.

The one thing that is similar is performance. both are great choices if they shoot good, and you keep em under 3,000 fps M.V. Use the right weight for the right animal and both would do the job very well. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I think the older design RCL were MUCH better than they are now!

Our own Mule Deer calls the Hornady Interlock the "poor man's partition" that's good enough for me!

FYI: They never changed the roundnoses; only the spitzers.

They are different and Hornady makes their own stuff as does Remington. However I consider the Hornady an improved Corelokt. They just took an old bullet design and improved on it. I also think the Hornady bullet is far more consistent and subject to tighter specs. I am tempted to try some bulk CoreLokt stuff in my .30/06 and .300 Savage loads since it is bargain basement priced at times. Heck, I really don't demand all that much from a bullet anyway. If it will group decent at 200 yards and flatten a 200 lb deer consistently, it's plenty of bullet.AW

Hornady makes bullets, or has made bullets for most of the ammunition makers. That is not to say Remington, Federal, etc don't make some of their own.

Federal themselves have admitted to me that the 140 gr "Hi-shok" in their 6.5x55 ammunition is a Hornady interlock. I asked because, externally it looked like the Horrnady bullets I was reloading, and have/do use the federal Class "Hi-shok" ammunition "now the power-shok line.

When the 7-08 was introduced by Remington, they specificall loaded Hornady bullets for this new cal, to ensure it sold well, as Hornady's are generally very accurate bullets, and would make a good impression with new buyers of the cal and it's ammo.
Not sure if they still use them in this cal for factory ammo or not.

Have a look at the cross-section of the Remington "Accu-tip" It is an SST through and through, INCLUDING the interlock ring!!

Hornady has told me that they make many of Reminton's "core-locks" to Rem's specs. That's why some batches of "core-lock psp" ammunition shoot so well, while others are so-so. Hornady generally makes better quality-controlled bullets, more accurate bullets. When you get some ammo from Rem that shoots exceptionally well, chances are that they are "core-locks" made to Rem's specs, by Hornady.

RSY,
Ditto. The 180 grain Rem RN CL did great in that big bullet test that gentleman encapsulated in that poster 5-6 years ago.