Anyone hunt with 150g CoreLokt in 308win??

[canadaman30]

Anyone, looking for some feed back on big-game usage. Deer and Black Bears are on the menu. Yes shoulder hits are my intended target, will they penetrate fair size bears???? Yes I understand 180's are better, but my 308 throws them all over the map compared to 150's.

 

[lawman]

I used 150g corelokt in a Remington 700 on a black bear last year.
He was a good size, no problems.
Around 90-100 meter shot
Didn't run far.
Think shot placement is more important than anything else.
My opinion

 

[dand883]

Anyone, looking for some feed back on big-game usage. Deer and Black Bears are on the menu. Yes shoulder hits are my intended target, will they penetrate fair size bears???? Yes I understand 180's are better, but my 308 throws them all over the map compared to 150's.

I found the same thing with the 180 grain core locts, in my .308 savage i get at least double the size of groups as cheapo winchester or federal

 

[blasted_saber]

They will perform perfectly fine on deer and black bear

 

[powder burner]

Why not bump up to 165 corelock?

 

[Neilm]

The corelock is an excellent bullet and if not pushed to fast exceeds the new monolithic bullets IMHO. As you can tell I'm not a Barnes fan.
Neil

 

[BAC4]

No experience with bears but have shot a lot of deer with the Rem 150 gr corelockts out of my Remington 760'7600s with no complaints. Bac4

 

[kyle700]

Go hunting, nothing wrong with the 150's whatsoever.

 

[gunnut870]

Consider switching to Hornady's 150gr GMX bullets. All copper alloy, no lead and great penetration. They group well out of several of my 308's.

 

[LarryG]

I used 308 win 150gr federal fusion last fall. Excellent perf. on deer.
Bullet went through chest at an angle. Quartering away shot at 60 yds. It wao found under fur at far side by the taxidermist. Great mushrooming and good weighr retention. The bullet hit a bone along the way through.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Used the 150 for one season a few years back. Big exit holes on every whitetail and muley. Field performance was good. Stopped using them just because the Federal Fusion held tighter groups in my rifle. Never took a bear with that load, but I would not hesitate to do so.

 

[Longwalker]

Those 150 grain .308 Rem core lockt bullets work just fine for your intended game. But be aware, when you say "shoulder shots" that a hit to the top of the humerus, where the scapula joins, will stop the best 150 grain lead core .308 bullet with insufficient penetration. I know this from several personal incidents and from other research.

The 150 grain Rem. core lockt is an effective bullet, but results do depend on what you mean by a "shoulder shot" -
Through the humerus into the lungs = dead game.
Just past the humerus and maybe though a rib into the lungs = dead game.
Through the scapula into the lungs = dead game.
Exactly between the joint of the scapula and humerus, with all that dense, cup shaped, heavy bone, will stop the bullet, and knock an animal down and result in a very live, active wounded animal.

 

[8mmpeter]

I shot a large doe square on the shoulder a couple years ago. 150 grain fed. Blue box .308 win. On impact, the deer was bowled right over on her back, all four legs in the air. I was stunned when it got up and ran another hundred yards. The bone stopped the bullet, very little penetration and a lot of wasted meat. The shot was approx. 30 yards. I'll never do that again

 

[patricksbb391]

Used 150 grs. in a .300 Savage (think a slightly milder loaded .308 Win) and liked the results. Lots of 'bang flops' on deer out to 170 yards or so.

 

[colonel3006]

I used to use them in my 30-06 and never had a deer go more than 50yds.

 

[Silverado]

My first lesson in bullet construction came when I was a brand new hunter looking for deer in my first season.

I was using a 7mm Remington Magnum loaded with 140gr CoreLokt factory ammo.

I shot two deer that day: a Whitetailed doe, quartering towards me at about 125 yards, and another WT doe at about 50 yards with a perfect broadside shot low in the ribcage behind the leg.

Both shots put the deer down within about 10 paces of where they stood. In both cases though, there was massive trauma and meat damage. On the quartering shot, the ENTIRE front quarter, from neck to brisket to ribs, was bone fragments and jelly. On the broadside shot, the entire ribcage on both sides of the deer, and part of the shoulder and even one end of the tenderloin, were a bloody mess.

Obviously the 7RM is pushing a 140 substantially faster than your 308W with 150's, which will stress the bullet much more, but after that experience I permanently switched to tougher bullets, including Nosler Partitions at first, then Accubonds and Barnes TSX's.

I prefer that my bullets not completely grenade inside the animal, and think that premiums are worth it for anything I'm hoping to eat. I reload so the costs are easily defrayed, but even some 'bonded' offerings like Federal Fusion would be a better bet in factory ammo IMO.

3/4's of a doe doesn't leave much eating... LOL.