Remington Core-Lokt bullets question

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Does anyone have any sectioned pictures of the Remington Core-Lokt bullets to compare them to other bullets like Hornady or Nosler ? I know what the Partition's and Interlock look like and would like to know how the Remington bullets look internally. And to those who have used them, how do they stack up against the premium bullets.
 
I have used them in a 350 Rem Mag(200gr). Took 2 deer. They are no better than other non premium bullets and worse in some other ways, like BC is usually lower in the Core Lokt compare to others. They do not compare to premium bullets like Partition, A-Frames, Fail Safes and others but then again they are not designed to compete in this group, they are a cheap bullet that does the job but not as versatile as the premiums. For the average hunt they are OK if your rifle shoots them accurately.
bigbull
 
There was a whole bunch of testing done a few years back (can't remember the source) but it had fired most of the commonly available bullets into the same sort media. (wet sawdust I think) and done up a pretty nice penetration and "mushroom" diameter. As expected the premium bullets like Nosler Part., Barnes X etc. out performed the standard spitzer design's however I do recall that the Rem. Core-Loks significantly out performed all the others including Hornady, Speer, Sierra spire points.
 
I shot a 200 pound plus deer with a 180 grain CoreLokt this year. The distance was about 40 yards, and it was out of a 308 Win. This bullet was reloaded to a velocity of 2550 fps at the muzzle. Not exactly magnum speed.

The bullet travelled thru the front quarter (in front of the bone), thru the lungs, and found under the skin just behind the right shoulder. It weighed 107 grains. This works out to about 59% weight retention. Not the greatest weight retention, but total energy expended in the animal. As mentioned earlier, they are a cheaper bullet that work ok on deer. I will continue to use these bullets on deer at close range.

Terry Perkins
 
I shoot more CoreLokt than any other bullet when sighting in rifles for others. They are a bread and butter bullet that works reasonably well on most big game.
Far from the best bullet out there and not even in the top three of the decent "value" factory bullets that I can think of.:redface:
Not my first choice for putting meat in the freezer that is for sure!:eek:
Anyone that still reloads these for hunting as a bullet of choice is never going to spend the 10 cents more for better bullets anyway.:rolleyes:
Bullets are the least expensive item you will buy for hunting....:confused:
 
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todbartell said:
plain jane vanilla softpoints

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Supercub said:
I've found the Core-Loks to be pretty accurate whenever I tried them out.
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Yeah, for plain jane vanilla soft points they seem to work. And yeah, they can be accurate, too. Pet load for .300 Win Mag is 70 gr IMR4350 behind a 180 gr Rem Core-Lokt bullet using Rem mag primers & Win brass. Printed sub 1" 100 yard groups in both a Ruger 77 with 24" barrel & Browning A-Bolt composite stalker 26" barrel. Shot two moose with that load & it worked fine... ;)
 
bisonhd said:
There was a whole bunch of testing done a few years back (can't remember the source) but it had fired most of the commonly available bullets into the same sort media. (wet sawdust I think) and done up a pretty nice penetration and "mushroom" diameter. As expected the premium bullets like Nosler Part., Barnes X etc. out performed the standard spitzer design's however I do recall that the Rem. Core-Loks significantly out performed all the others including Hornady, Speer, Sierra spire points.
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You are right about this test it was quite extensive, I think Handloader or rifle conducted the test. It was quite interesting because if I remember they also shot into deer(road kill) so yhey had actual game performance of the bullets even though the game was already dead. I also remember the CoreLokts as standouts in the premium crowd but don't forget that the CoreLokts that they used for the test were "ROUND NOSE. :eek: Does everyone remember what those look like:eek:

I must say that I have gone through a revival of sort lately with round nose bullets being given a good shakedown during my load development and have come away very surprised at their accuracy. The turn around was two years ago when a friend of mine shooting a 300 WSM Kimber 8400 chose to use 180gr Hornady RN bullets:eek: in his handloads. I saw the performance of that load on three different deer and I was very impressed with the penetration (pass throughs) and expansion, he got nice 2.5" exits on the deer and low bloodshot area around the entrance, needless to say we didn't recover any bullets but the deer were on the ground and that is what matters. I don't think one would be disadvantaged by the RN's trajectory if the ranges are held inside 250yds. In our case we never shoot over 75-100yds so the RN gives up nothing in the way of trajectory at these ranges.
my .02
bigbull
 
Cor-loks were cheapened a while back,but they didn't bother changing the low volume RNs.I thought I had found a good bullet, the 180 RN for my P-14 303,but as pushed the velocity up the group size opened,unlike the Sierras.I am going to try Speers,next.
 
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I have had nothing but bad experiences with them I shot a whitetail with them in alberta and the bullet peeled away the hide and did not penetrate.So i chambered another same damm thing so i shot him a third time and finally he fell the deer was 24 yrds from me i was using a remington 700 BDL 30-06 150 gr so i thought it was my rifle and got it looked at nothing wrong so I sold that rifle and bought a ruger m77 mII in a 300 win mag I tried those bullets again this time 180 gr at a moose 112 yrds same f%":"n thing So i changed my bullet selection to the nosler partition and all my problems were solved All one shot kills now. Even on the big grizzly,s they fall to one shot from my 300 with 180gr tripple shocks with 81 gr of Re22
 
sheep-01, you had very typical performance of a bullet that had too high an impact velocity, going even higher to the 300 Win Mag only made things worse. You would have been better off going to the 308 Win, with it's lower velocity it would have increased penetration. Non premium bullets have a problem dealing with velocity extremes and that's where the premiums come into play they can tolerate velocity extremes on the high side. The fact is most hunters shoot game alot closer than most people think at least in my neck of the woods, the only game we shoot at long range consistently is cariboo. The advent of so many premium bullets lately has been to prevent failure at regular(read short) impact velocities. Failure is usually bullet break up and not the other way around.
bigbull
 
Interesting topic. I shot a Mule Doe this fall with .30-06 150grn at about 75 yards. I needed a second shot at about 40 yards to get it on the ground. Although the first shot was not 100% perfect, it should have dropped it.

Since then I am considering going to another bullet type - probably partitions at 165 or 180 grn.
 
I have killed five deer in the past four years with core lotks. Three were 140grain factory round out of a 280rem, one was a 150grain reload from the same 280 and one was a 100grain reload from a 257 Roberts. I recovered three of them. All are perfect mushrooms that weigh between 75% and 90% of original. All were recovered under the skin on the far side.

I think that as long as velocities are kept down below 3000fps, the core lokts are excellent bullets for thier price.
 
I used the .338 225gr. core-lock and it worked well for me on a wt buck. Remington now has a new core-lock, the "Premier® Core-Lokt® Ultra Bonded". This should be a good bullet.
 
Here's the 150gr .308 Core-Lokt recoved from my deer this year. It was a 55 yard shot, quarting towards me. The bullet past through the shoulder area , lungs, diaphram, and was found in the skin behind the liver. It was a bang / flop shot.







Worked good enough for me :D !
 
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