I've got a few boxes of these sitting around in 7x57, 160 gr. If the numbers on the box are right they seem to be loaded up to a decently high velocity ( 2,650fps). I was wondering if anybody has any experience with these, or kling-kores in general, and what sort of performance I should expect from deer-sized game.
Imperial Kling-Kore
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I started big game hunting after Imperial left the scene.
But, thousands of others gave used them with great success and harvested many a game animal.
Deer sized game will fall if you do your part and get it on target.
Yellow paper boxes or the shiny bronze/gold toned boxes?
Might have some collector nostalgia value to them.
Rob
Those old 'kling kores' always had a very good name in our neck of the woods. The 160 gr might be a little heavy for deer in that cal. ,but the bullets seem to open up well, and as you noted, they do have a fair head of steam compared to some current offerings. Should be a good deer, bear, elk load.
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I used to use the Imperial Kling Kore bullets in 170 grain in my 30-30 in my younger days and dropped a lot of moose, bears and even a couple of deer. Really good hunting rounds in my opinion, if you put the bullet in the right spot the animal would tip over every time. I was sad when Imperial went away and took their bullets with them.
I worked at CIL in the early 60's. KlingKor was our staple hunting bullet. We were busy developing the sabre Tip at the time. Nosler later "invented " it as the Ballistic Tip.
That bullet will work well. The jacket should not separate and it will expand at any reasonable distance.
That bullet will work well. The jacket should not separate and it will expand at any reasonable distance.
I had 4 boxes of bullets that came with some reloading gear. 30 and 7m shot excellent and worked well on deer.
KKSP (Kling Kore Soft Point) was and still is a very good hunting bullet in it's class. Known for reliable, consistent expansion without fragmentation, great penetration , and perfect mushrooms it is a very good performer on all North American big game over a wide range of calibres from 30-30W through 303 Brit and 30-06. For some reason it never seemed to be a first choice in magnum calibres and while overall accuracy was adequate for hunting purposes there was other, less reliable ammo available that was more accurate. Thousands of moose have fallen to the .303 British and 180 grain Kling Kore Soft Points.
I inherited a bunch of CIL reloading components a while back including 1000 primers and some boxes of 7mm projectiles. I got 2 boxes of 175 gr and 1 box of the 160gr KKSP bullets. The primers are all used up but I still have some of the bullets.
My old 7x57 rifles seem to prefer the longer heavier projectiles and is deadly accurate with either bullet over a stiff charge of IMR4064.
I have let the air out of one nice mule deer 4 point with the 175 gr KKSP. Wouldn't hesitate to use it on moose.
My old 7x57 rifles seem to prefer the longer heavier projectiles and is deadly accurate with either bullet over a stiff charge of IMR4064.
I have let the air out of one nice mule deer 4 point with the 175 gr KKSP. Wouldn't hesitate to use it on moose.
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- Saskatchewan
I have shot deer and moose with that bullet, it is a pretty good design for most hunting. Always reliable expansion, and never sheds its core, but might peel back to very little shank length if much bone is hit. I'd rate them just a little better than the Sierra GK and similar in performance to he Hornady RN.
They work great. In the seventies and eighties we all sort of took them for granted but we sure miss them now that they are gone. I have one, perfectly mushroomed, that we recovered from a big moose. It was in the ham part of the hind quarter, all healed up. It had been shot the year before and healed up. We found it when cutting the quarter into steaks.
The black & gold shiny boxes. I've got 50 rds or so.
The rifle I'm planning on using them in has open (peep) sights, so range will definitely be under 300 yds and likely under 200.
Thanks for the help everybody. I'll get them zeroed in as soon as the snow leaves. If I get a chance I'll run them over a chrono and see if the velocity lives up to the advertising.
