mauser06

gimme a box of corelokts and ill go groundhog hunting.....about the only thing i see fit with them.......i know 350398059334534 deer died a death due to corelokts since they been out.......but i myself will never launch another one at a deer again......i think i was shooting the 165gr psp's in my 06.....i hit 2 does with them and lost them.......first one there was a TINY blood trail.......that was IT.....followed it till it ran out.......then dad and i were on hands an knees for 4 hours........never saw it or another speck......and dad is a pretty dang good tracker......ive seen him work some magic........the other one had a little hair and a drop of blood.......i honestly think they exploded on impact of the deer.....(boiler room behind the shoulder right in the center of the lungs is where they should have hit...) yes i know misses and other things happen.....but i still dont buy it.........and either way......you hit a deer somewhere other then the lungs at 30yds with a bullet that stays together and i bet you got blood to trail......i like max damage........with over 1million deer hunters in the state i kinda like my deer to drop or run a short distance with max blood to follow so i can find it in seconds.........i dont need someone seeing my deer run and shoot it...or run and fall over and they steal it.......or me be tracking it and just loose it or whatever......dad always used federal nosler ballistic tips and i watched him drop a good handful of deer right stone cold dead........most of the deer ive shot dropped stone cold dead....ive shot BTSP and BTHPs from sierra game kings.....and last year i killed 3 with winchester SP powerpoints.......i really liked the power points.....all of these were 165 gr except the HPs that were 165 or 168 i cant remember.......2 other deer i killed were with a 308 federal 168gr BTHP sierra match king....and a 180gr RD nose corelokt.......shot a button buck at point blank range my second year.........my god that hole was HUGGGGGGGGGGGE...i put my hand in it no joke.....entrance hole was overly large as well.....that deer still made it about 150yds.......dont ask me how......it had no heart, lungs and one front leg......but it did......ran/rolled down the mountain 50yds..ran straight into a boulder......fell down and got back up.....ran and felldown some more....then ran full speedsmack into a boulder and collapsed.....super deer????i didnt have to gut the diaphram........most of it FELL OUT THE EXIT!!! this year im shooting 168gr winchester supreme ballistic tips......and i probably wont look back.......i just dont know why corelokts didntwork for me........maybe i got a super rifle(actually i do...mauser 98k!! lol) but i dont know........seems every other bullet under the sun works good for me.......and most of them ive shoot a couple deer with before switching.....really never had a reason to switch...but i do when i run out from time to time.......i was impressed with winchester power points for 11 bucks a box.......3 deer last yearwith it........i put one 75% through a buck.....i was facing/ quartering me.......pretty hard angle.....and i was above in on a hillside......soi put it in inbetween the shoulders high in the body(neck) and sent it throughthe boiler room and i think it came out a few inches between theopposite hind quarter....i didnt skin it so i dont know for sure......the bullet wasnt in the deer........and thats where it looked like a perfectly mushroomed bullet came outof.....good luck........theres alot of good bullets out there.....alot of guys dont like BT.....but they usually are the guys that dont shootthem.....they just know what ballistic tip means and they think they are exploding on impact bullets......ill see how i like them this season...good luck........shoot straight and put it where it counts and you should beable to hit them with most any bullet out there and kill them.......