RE: Recovered core-lokt.
 

Doe Dumper (great handle by the way):

I am also a student of the 7-08 bullet game. However, I have shot factory offerings with Core-Lokts, and my two 7-08's didn't care for them, so beyond a few groups on the range, I have no experience with CL's out of the 7-08.

I have never not had a complete pass through with my 7-08. I have done some tests with water, plywood and the like to see how well different bullets held together. While nothing but a deer is really a deer, my tests showed that the Barnes TSX bullets held up the best. The 140 grainers didn't really lose any weight at 100 yards. Inside of 50, I did have some of the pettles get ripped off, but apparently its designed to do that. Weight retention otherwise was nearly always 100%.

What I like best about them is that they don't tear up a lot of meat like the Balistic Tips I used to shoot do. They are CERTAINLY effective, and whenever I took a deer with them, it was lights out on the spot (save one shot I botched, had to do a bit of following, but still, dead inside of 100 yards).

I am glad the CL's are working for you. I used to shoot them out of an '06 and took a few deer with them. They work well if you do your job with bullet placement!

RE: Recovered core-lokt.
 

I think there's a conspiracy theory going on here, I think there was a 2nd gunman shotting a premium bullet that actually did the killing, your Corejunkt merely penetrated the hide and dipersed. :D

RE: Recovered core-lokt.
 

LMAO Mossy you're killing me :D Lithium or Prozac time :D SwampCollie I do a little bit of reloading but just dont have rthe time right now to do it the way I want. I have been considering loading some of the 120 TSX's for deer. I was curious as to how they would perfrom at the less than magnum velocities our guns see. Thanks for the info. BTW The core-junks :Dhave grouped better than anything so far in my adl...always right under an inch. I was thinking the 120's driven to around 3000-3050 would add a little flatness without loosing penetration compared to the factory loads. However I dont get paid to think :DThanks again for the info!

RE: Recovered core-lokt.
 

My brother in law shot a doe Friday morning with a 308 150 gr Core-lokt. This was a medium size deer and he shot it in the neck just in front of the shoulders. It had a hole that I could stick my fist (which isn't small) through the neck. I may have to go back to core-lokts.

RE: Recovered core-lokt.
 

No problem, glad to help if you can call it that.

I don't have a chronograph, so results for me are just what I see and a post mortem on deer. I have loaded some of the 120s, but since there is only a month left in our season, I am just waiting until the doldrums of February to try out a bunch of diff stuff. Like you, I don't have time to reload right now, I am too busy either hunting or at work. Once the deer and then duck season is open I'll have some time to kill. I am shooting the 140gr TSXB with 43 gr of win 760 out of my Encore right now and it is driving tacks. It was a test load left over that my Rem 7-08 didn't care for, so I only had about 10 bullets before I sighted her in. Now, after group testing, sighting in, and two deer, I only have two left. Better make them count!

RE: Recovered core-lokt.
 

Shot a small doe last Friday, leaving a nice, gurgling,fist-sized exit wound on the right shoulder. Not much left of the lungs except for some red goop.

RE: Recovered core-lokt.
 

DD

Post us a picture of that bullet. If you can.

RE: Recovered core-lokt.
 

I bought a few 500 per bulk boxes of 140 gr 6.5 mm corelokts a few years ago from either Midway or Midsouth. One of my Swedes loves those bullets andI use them for milsurp matches. I was suprised that several other guys also shot the same bullet in the matches. A real good competitor isn't going to shootmuch better than 2moa consistantly with open iron sights, and the corelokts are plenty good enough to shoot better than that at 100 yards- no sense spending 3 or 4x as much on SMKs.

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Yeah, I am pretty sure that if they where actually "junk lokt's" like I have seen a few people refer to them as then they wouldnt be selling as well as they do. I know that they have always done the trick for me and several other people that I hunt with.

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Its laying here on the desk but Im not real sure how to get it on there without a digital camera and floppy drive. If I can use someone elses I may be able to do it.