Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Why so much hate for Corelokts?

Besides, bullets is the least expensive part of hunting, and the most important part once the trigger is pulled.

Got to agree with Jimdcg,"didn't know there was another bullet til I was 25" bout sums it up. Silvertips in my lever and corelokts in everything else did just fine for most of my hunting life. Til I got "enlightened" I guess. Still got a few green boxes around here somewhere...

My guess would be that if he'd shot 180gr bullet's he'd have been a lot better off.

because its cool to buy them fancy silver shells with the black bullets.

I'll pass

Dirty brass handloads with a top quality bullet every time for me

I've probably literally killed truckloads of feral hogs with them out of my .243, .708, and .308. And nearly as many Whitetails. Never lost an animal with a Corelocts and most have been DRT. If I buy factory ammo, I always try to buy Corelocks as they are very accurate in all my hunting rifles.

Hell, in my old ugly ass Ruger Scout in .308, they will shoot 5 bullets into one ragged hole at 100 yards with both the 150 gr and 180 grain. Shoots em like a friggin $3K Bench Rest Rifle.

Made by Remington and they come apart.

They are simply the worst bullet I have run over the Juenke machine. Out of 1,500 bullets in the last batch I ran for a friend there was not a single bullet as good as the average SMK. My little bit of testing shows that extremes on the Juenke match real world accuracy pretty well.

Atop that they do terrible things if they hit meat. Loss due to bloodshot is seriously excessive.

As several have noted they do not penetrate well at all.

No deer will refuse to die hit in the right spot with almost anything, but the CoreLokt is about as far down as you can go in selecting bullets. For anything tougher than deer I consider them a mistake...

Quite a few bear in AK have fallen to the Remington Express 270 grain 375 H&H. The 30-06 version has accounted for quite a number in its own right. You could probably shoot a deer near lengthwise with the H&H version and eat up to the bullet hole. Don't think pushing a Core-Lokt like a Barnes, using smaller chamberings, with light end bullets, shooting high velocities, on large African sized game and such is a good recipe. But standard chamberings, standard velocities, and good bullet weights, you could cleanly kill just about anything you'd need to hunt in NA with a well placed shot using a factory loaded Core-Lokt bullet.

Most guys are probably shooting more deer than elk, moose, or large bear. Most should probably be shooting several hundred rounds or more through their hunting rifle, each and every year, to vet the darn thing and to stay in good practice. So for many, a case or two of factory Core-Lokts each and every year at nearly half the cost of a high-end premium makes much sense. If it is accurate, keeps game in the freezer, and is much less trouble and no more expensive than reloading, why not. Probably why most stats I've seen show the stuff highly popular in sales. And even for something the size of elk, I thought one of the RMEF polls taken sometime this decade from elk hunters, showed a 180 grain Core-Lokt out of a 30-06 as being the most popular combination, so it must work for some.

That could be, but most don't think of the .308 as having enough hp to stress a 150 grain C&C bullet. With a .300 WM/.300 RUM, sure. A .308? Not so much.

Just my $.02. For the record, I've never had a CoreLokt fail on game.

FC

With Core-Lokts if you go heavy for caliber they penetrate like crazy.

Don't have any here, kilt a lot chit' with one shot....

Hate? No hate here. It's a good honest hard working hunting bullet.

Like the good ole 06, it's boring as heck and thoroughly UNloony!

7-08 and 140 CL. I guess he just happened to get the penetrating CL's last November.

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They are likely a good bullet if it's a mile before a critter can get into any sort of timber.

Like this?

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Damn! That timber is at least a foot higher than a deer. Lots of rain too I'll bet.

Another kid and a non penetrating 7-08 140 CL:

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Yet another 7-08/140 CL

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How far can you see into it? We had about 8" of rain that year.