I don't buy much if any factory ammo but if I do usually got core lokt. I just got asked what the difference in the regular 150 grain core lokt and the 150 grain Express Core Lokt. I didn't even realize there was a difference but after looking at ammo boxes there is. I can't find the answer to the question though. Anybody know?

Are you sure you are not looking at old and new boxes?? I have some mid 80's boxes of Core Lockt and they dont say "Express" on them but the new boxes do say "Express" on them. However they both have the same catalog number.

A Core Lockt is a Core Lockt unless you put they word "Ultra" on the end of it.......then it becomes a bonded Core Lockt.

Yup.

Your prolly right. I don't know much about it. I'm like you a core lokt is a core lokt. Thanks.

And damn if the Corelokts don't work like a charm! I can't even justify reloading for my 30-06,because the 150gr Corelokts are cheap and have yet to do anything except slam the animal to the ground.

x2 with the 165 grs.

X 3.

I reload my own but found core lokts are accurate bullets. Go figure...from a non-ballistic tip bullet this seems odd to me.

x4

I had to jump in. Last year, my son used Core Lockt with good success (no shots longer than about 120 yards) in a Savage 270. Getting ready for this year, I purchased a box of higher quality ammo, at about twice the cost per box, to be even better prepared. Well, just the other weekend we went to practice (using the cheaper Core Lockt), and then proceeded to sight in with the more expensive ammo. He had trouble getting a tight group. I thought he was doing something wrong, so I then gave it a try, with bags on the front and back, so the rifle was very still, and I could not get better than a one-inch group at 50 yards. I thought the dang scope went bad. Fortunately, I still have a bunch of the Core Lockt, and we went back to shooting it, and he had a ½ inch group at 50 yards, very well done and perfectly adequate for our upcoming hunting season, and we are not going to change a thing for this year.

Lesson from the story: one never knows what will work well in any particular rifle, and the 130 grain Core Lockts, in my opinion, based on our experience, work really well out of a standard 270 Savage for not-so-long range hunting.

My experience has been with 6mm. Lots of deer killed with BTs. One shot. Last year had to buy ammo for first time in over 15 years for the 6mm. Shot a good size buck at short range. Pass thru and he hauled [censored]. Found him not far away. I see these bullets are a bit harder and stay together more resulting in lots of pass thru's at short range with little energy transfer, at least in the 6mm. They are fairly accurate.

I love the core-lokt's. Use 130 grain in my .270. Last year hit my buck at 185 yards double lung shot and he was down in 20 yards.

Dropped two bucks in their tracks with 150gr out of my 30.06 at 350 yds. Also killed the fallow in my signature this past weekend with a .260 and 140gr core-lokt's.

Corelokts shoot so well in my Ruger 30-06 that I don't even bother reloading for it. They work extremely well on whitetails and hogs in this cartridge to the point that it really is a bit of overkill.

Haven't used Core-lokt bullets in almost 30 years, except in the 17 Remington where they work great. I am sure they work as well as any other cup and core bullet as long as they really are Remington Core-lokt bullets. When I first got the 7mm-08 140gr "core-lokt" was the only factory load available. First deer I shot with it had complete fragmentation on the shoulder of a 140lb buck, second shot through just ribs destroyed everything in the chest cavity. Found out later that these were not in actuality Remington bullets and there were lots of complaints about bullet fragmentation, by that time the sweet little rifle was being loaded with a diet of Nosler Partitions

I know cup/core bullets aren't the sexiest nowadays with all the tipped, bonded, 'X' and other offerings out there but I'm gonna x5 the above poster that said they work so well. I started shooting them out of my .243 so I could get once fired brass. That was almost 10 years and a bunch of dead critters ago! Very low drama, low cost. Everything from bobcats to pigs seem to just keel over dead. If I wasn't sitting on 100's of Hornady Superformance .308 ammo that I got in a deal, I'd use them out of my .308 as well with no hesitation.

I use those or Hornady BTSP to reload both my .243 and 30-06. They are both the same bullet and do the job right!

Guys we all have those problems even with handloads...Guns are somewhat like women, they have to be tailored too and petted..Once you get the right tune they all want to dance..I just finished working a load for 150 gr TTSX Barnes in my TRG..the max load was 2 in circle at 100 yds..I reduced 1/2 grain
all one hole..3/8ths in around..Just a little differt music..The
problem with factory loads is they vary lot to lot, so if you purchase one box that groups, don't expect the next purchase from
a differnt lot to hit the same place..Don

I've never seen that though I have heard of it. I've bought several boxes of ammo at a time from different vendors at different times. I also burn through a fair amount of ammo on pigs. I sighted my .243 almost ten years ago. Many boxes of factory ammo have cycled through it! Haven't had to resight yet. Not saying reloading isn't better, or that there aren't superior bullets, just that I've been happy enough not to feel the extra effort is warranted. Yet.

Maybe I'm just buying large enough lots that I haven't experienced this...

Ditto. Remington 700 + Remington Corelokts = a dream. The price makes it that much better.

My Savage .270 has been fed 130 gr. Core-Lokts since the day I first brought it home 6 years ago, and has never missed the targeted animal, never let it run more than 20 yards. It puts them down quick, which I like, and it's a VERY affordable round so you can practice all day without breaking the bank, which I like even more.

My longest shot on a deer was 375 yds. using a 130 gr. handloaded CoreLokt out of my .270-dropped him like a rock.

Toolman- I've thought about handloading my .270, since I do it for everything else. Problem is, I can often buy a box of 20 rounds for $18 or so after tax...I don't know that I can save enough on the handloading to justify it. I do have a ton of .270 brass though, so I may give it a go. What powder are you using and what velocity/accuracy are you getting? Are you close to replicating the factory performance or have you bumped it up?

My go-to load is 59 gr. of IMR 7828, Win. L.R. primers, in Win. brass. These shoot under an inch @ 100, but I haven't chrono'ed them. I also have an H4831 load that's a tad more accurate, but I'd have to dig out my load book which is still packed away after our recent move.

I have this same connundrum as well. Factory Cor-Lokt 130 grain .270 Win. works perfectly for me.

I've got over 200rds of once fired Remington 7x57 brass. Bought dies, powder, fancy bullets and everything I need to reload a while back. Problem is that every year I run out of time so I go buy another box of Core-lokts and kill another couple of critters. They shoot well and work great.

Damn things went from $15 a box a few years ago to close to $30 now. I need to get off my butt and start reloading.

Time to budget in a little reloading time.