Reminton core lockts PSP. Are they suposed to seperate?

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as it says. Are they supposed to fragment/seperate? Shot it at about 25yds.

Deer is hanging now, but found pieces of shrapnel when skinning it out. I thought they were the deadliest "mushroom" in the woods.

Hoping to find the base of the bullet when I butcher it.


140grain bullet in 7mm.
 
powder burner said:
as it says. Are they supposed to fragment/seperate? Shot it at about 25yds.

Deer is hanging now, but found pieces of shrapnel when skinning it out. I thought they were the deadliest "mushroom" in the woods.

Hoping to find the base of the bullet when I butcher it.


140grain bullet in 7mm.
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SHot one with .30-06 core lokt psp this morning..... .30 cal entry hole in side.... about a .50 cal entry hole in heart.... baseball size exit wound as it left the chest... 50 yards
 
They are good bullets. All bullets, except the monolithics, will leave pieces of shrapnel. There was a recent study, out of North Dakota I think, that found shrapnel up to 18" from the bullet path. Even high end bonded bullets left shrapnel up to 11" from the bullet path.

It is the main reason I use TSX bullets.
 
I have used the .277 130 gr and 30 cal 165 gr a lot in the past and found they perform very similiar to a partition in that the front comes off in shrapnel and the rear core remains.
 
I don't think they are supposed to separate, but so what?

Whether it is supposed to separate or not, sounds like a one shot kill and the meat is hanging so not what I would call bullet failure. The bullet was supposed to kill the deer and it did, so done is done.
 
Shot a moose with the core-lokt 175 gr. this fall and it performed as advertised. Shot the bull at 307 yds. with my 7mm and recovered the bullet on butchering.
 
If I find a bullet core separates on impact, I stop using it. Some fragments are acceptable as the bullet mushrooms, but I want the bullet core and base to maintain as much mass as is reasonable considering what it has hit.
 
Seen a 165gr cor loc explode on the hide/fat of a bull moose hump from a 30-06 years ago never exited.............Harold
 
I have found the 180 gr Rem Core-Lokt to be a good performing bullet. Never had any separation problems.
 
I got a moose a few years back with my 30-06 using core-lokt 180 grain. It separated the jacket from the core. Shot was about 100 yards. The moose was broadside in shoulder high brush which was not very visable through the peep sights I was using. Bullet tumbled (I believe) due to contact with a twig. Luckily, the bullet jacket ended up in the moose's heart.
Have used the same bullet in the same rifle with great results on deer and moose since. No separation issues but weight retention varies depending on whether or not I hit heavy bone. On deer, most shots pass through unless hit in the neck.
 
Interesting. I never used to have pass-thrus with Cor-Lokts. But the last 3 or 4 deer I have killed with Cor-Lokts (.270, 130 gr. & .308, 180 gr.) were all pass-thrus and showed no bullet expansion at all. Exit holes no bigger than entry holes.
 
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