Spot. About those Core-Lokts....

 Spot,

 Please elaborate on the failures. max

Come now spot, dont be so hard on Remington. THey are trying to give ammo to the masses at an affordable price at places where they can buy guns, diapers, cloths, electronics, food, school supplies, tires, the list goes on.

NH_Hunter

Maybe i should stick with the silvertips. I put two in the same hole at 20 yards standing unsupported . It seems that in most cases, through my dad's testing, Rugers seem to like Remmie Core-Lokts. He has had quite a few Rugers pass through his hand. In hte 96/44 i had feeding problems with 220 grain Silvertips, but none with the 275 grain Core-Lokts . I think that lil combo might be my backup gun in my secret hunting place, seeing as .30-30's are not LEGAL in there.

NH_Hunter

Cartridge was an O6 loaded to the gill's (it likes hot loads), it's a 1950'5 to 60's 700ADL, steel butt plate (OUCH!).

  As far as hittin paper max, I've actually found core lok jackets in front of the target just sittin there!  Junk I tell ya!!!!  Ok, that may have been a bad bacth - but if you don't believe me search on google for core-lokt and separation and you'll find more links.  Larger bullets would be harder/easier to get separtated?

don't know, they do kill thousands of deer every year, but I try to make everything as reliable as possible so I skip over core lokt.

Spot

Max,

   Not much accounting for what I saw, we picked up the jacket and compared it to the bullets my friend was shooting and it matched.  Heck of a thing, and the first time I have ever seen it happen.  About five years after that I saw the same thing over at the Lake city range in Missouri.  The front of the jacket rolled back about 30% of the way and it was laying in front of the target.  Now there is now way of it getting pulled off by the target so it had to come off in flight.  Beats the hell out of me how it could happen.  I have seen quiet a few core-lokts perform excellent on deer.  I don't know what the problem was on those occasions, its to bad the remington rep wasn't there that day.  Don't know if you ever shoot at lake city but the winchester and remington sales rep's both shoot there from time to time.  Man you want to see a "ford vs. chevy" conversation!

   I don't go there anymore, hey you don't shoot out at Mill Creek do you?  Anyway for the Remington Ammo, it may have changed but their components do have a greater standard deviation (or at least did 3-5 years ago was the last time I checked).  Personally, I've shot a couple of deer with Core-lokts and didn't have any problem.  But like I said I home rolled 90+ % of the time.

  Hey, just thinkin a bit, I don't get most the bullets I shot game with because it makes an exit hole as they pass through.  Do core-lokts typically stay in the critter?

  Spot

NH,

   My personal prefference is to have the bullet exit and leave a nice blood trail.  Ones that blow up, and don't make it out can bleed into the cavity and leave no trail at all (not good).  With Mag's this isn't so bad because they usually drop so much energy into the critter the thing drops right away. 

   Either way, it's what you beleive in.  I trust the bullets I use, but I don't trust core-lokt's so I don't use them.  If I did, I might never have a problem with them, but I'd rather not worry about it at all.  Never had a nosler, or sierra let me down yet.  Even though this is the case I don't use BT's in my 300WSM unless its at longer ranges.  Guess I'm saying I'm extremely careful about what I shoot.

Spot

Klallen, you have never used Remington Factory ammo? THey have been making the core-lokts forever! I believe that the Core-Lokt ultra is a modernized core-lokt. I have some Remington Clean-Bore from the 50's or 60's that has, you guessed it, Remington Core-Lokts in it. Now, Winchester modernized their Silvertip, and called it the ballistic silvertip. So why are you dissing the Core-Lokt Ultra Spot?

NH_Hunter