Recovered core-lokt.

Doe Dumper · 11-26-2006, 06:25 PM

Found the core-lokt I killed a decent 8 pointer with last Monday while butchering the deer today. It was a 7 yard shot almost head on that impacted between the front shoulder and the neck. Bullet was recovered about an 1/8 inch below the surface at the back of the ham. Retained weight was 117 grains..if the small piece of the jacket that were found beside the bullet are counted retained goes to 123 grains. Bullet was a perfect mushroom. Fired from a 7-08 it began life as a 140 grain. It went through some large bone and travelled the length of the deer held together and dropped the deer within 15 yards. Pretty darned good performance for a "junk-lokt"

Of all the deer I killed last week the only thing that they all had in common on bullet performance was the fact that all deer involved are now in the freezer

Is this about the norm for what everyone else is getting?

Chantecler111 · 11-26-2006, 06:31 PM

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ORIGINAL: Doe Dumper

Found the core-lokt I killed a decent 8 pointer with last Monday while butchering the deer today. It was a 7 yard shot almost head on that impacted between the front shoulder and the neck. Bullet was recovered about an 1/8 inch below the surface at the back of the ham. Retained weight was 117 grains..if the small piece of the jacket that were found beside the bullet are counted retained goes to 123 grains. Bullet was a perfect mushroom. Fired from a 7-08 it began life as a 140 grain. It went through some large bone and travelled the length of the deer held together and dropped the deer within 15 yards. Pretty darned good performance for a "junk-lokt"

Of all the deer I killed last week the only thing that they all had in common on bullet performance was the fact that all deer involved are now in the freezer

Is this about the norm for what everyone else is getting?

No, actually, every core lokt I ever used got caught in the fur and never even penetrated, same with Winchester Power Points, you gotta have premium ammo if you wanna kill a deer, there is no way around it.

Aught Six · 11-26-2006, 06:32 PM

Couldn't tell you. My 150 grain .30-06 Core-Lokts passed through, turning vitals into jelly.

Doe Dumper · 11-26-2006, 06:46 PM

Yeah maybe I should add the vital were turned to red globs in this as well. This is the first one I ever recovered as the other 5 deer killed were all pass thrus..

TUK101 · 11-26-2006, 07:06 PM

The core lokt that was used to kill my daughters doe at around 30 yards went straight through and the deer only did the dyeing quivers. 130gr. .270 was used. Never had a problem using Core-Lokts or Winchester Power Points. I cannot see the point in paying more for ammo than neccessary when the longest shots that we take around here is only about 120 yards. I am now doing up some reloads that are grouping a bit tighter for me though.

onebadf250 · 11-26-2006, 09:32 PM

I love the corelokts and have killed a many a deer with them out of my 270. I shot a 195lb 8pt at 323yds and got a pass through a few years back. I have retrieved the bullets out of several deer that I've shot. If I'm able to retrieve them that means they did their job.Most of my non pass throughs have been quartering to me shots where I was shooting mostly the length of the deer and almost all of them I shot like that dropped in their tracks. I'm definitly a believer in them.

handloader1 · 11-26-2006, 10:48 PM

Remington Core-Lokts have been killing game for many years. Good luck.

James B · 11-27-2006, 07:23 AM

Does anyone buy the Bulk Corlokts for reloading? I used to when I lived right close to a ammo place in SD.

DM · 11-27-2006, 07:49 AM

There's no magic here, Cor-lokts are like any other bullet made. Drive it too fast and it comes apart, use it like it was designed to be used and it works just fine.

Once you use any bullet out of it's designed velocity range you will start getting falures, that's where the premiums pay off as they have a wider operateing range...

DM

mistahmojoryan · 11-27-2006, 07:58 AM

Never had a problem with CoreLokts or Power Points in 30-06 or 300WM in 150gr-180gr...great deer killers. They're acceptable in every way: penetration, expansion, trajectory, accuracy.

Other good bullets that make it cheap and easy to improve on their performance but that doesn't mean they're no good.