Here's the answer to that question. All bullets are NOT created equal and there is a great reason why spend double the price for ammunition.

CB...you remind me of my uncles that I grew up hunting with. I don't mean that in a bad way because they taught me about all I know when it comes to hunting and I admire them very much. But they have that "old school" mentality when it comes to bullets. I have heard over and over that "dead is dead". Here is my view on that.

My uncle Brett has been using core-lokt's for as long as I can remember. I've never known him to use anything else. I have see him shoot several elk. He's got all the characteristics that an elk hunter should have. Waits for a clean shot and always has good shot placement. I've never seen him shoot an elk that we didn't find within a short distance. However I have first hand seen the difference literally side by side what a core-lok't bullet does compared to a "premium bullet". The core-lok't bullets don't retain their weight like say a partition or barnes x.Those bullet fragments gotta go somewhere.

Now I butcher my own meat so Ihave seen the difference. If you don't butcher your own meat you may be surprised. Icut up an elk for my uncle Brett once. He had hit a rib and half the bullet went through the vitals and the other half bounced and logged itself in the rear ham. He lost a lot of good meatto meat damage.In fact I have seem him loseall his roasts on one front shoulder due to a core-lok't coming apart a ruining all of the meat. When you think of losing say just 10 lbs. of meat at even a buck a pound (what it would cost you to get it somewhere else) you have madeup the difference between your plain jane bullets andthat premium box of shells with one shot. You add up several animals and the meat saved it can add up.

Core-lok's don't always do this but this do this A LOT in my experience.A jacketed bullet doesn't do this near as much and why I can see the frustration with theFusion. It's not always just about getting the job done, the premium bullets aresupposed to be for effenciency in doing so as well. That's the "new school" way of thinking. So IMO all dead elk are not created equal.