Does anyone have any experience shooting African plains game with Remington Core Lokt ammo? If so I would like to know your results. I have a large amount of .375 in Remington, .270 grain Core Lokt that I could use if I was comfortable shooting Kudu, Gemsbok, Wildebeest, Zebra and Springbok with this ammo.

I have shot a wild pig with the 270 RP Core Lokt.

And I have shot wild pigs with the 286 Woodleigh Soft and the 286 Nosler Partition out of my 9,3x74R, that I HAVE shot kudu, impala, and several zebras with...

So baised on that, I would not hesitate to hunt the game you have mentioned, with the 270 RP Core Lokt.

I have also found that ammo to be very accurate.

You should have no problems using them on the game animals you have mentioned at all

They will work on all plains game...


Mike

Those 270 gr bullets are Horandy InterLocks, and work just fine.

strapman,

25-30 years ago the Remington 270 gr Core Lokt load was one of the very few factory loads available for the 375. At that time I was living in Alaska and several people I knew used that load on everything including brown bears with complete satisfaction. I never used it personally for hunting but it shot incredibly well in my factory Remington. There is nothing sexy or trick about the load but it works very well for soft skinned game. For your plains game hunt it will be fine and leaves some big wound channels and blood trails.

Mark

In my rifles it is very accurate ammunition. I haven't used it on game.

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Originally posted by mrlexma:
In my rifles it is very accurate ammunition. I haven't used it on game.

Yeah, me too.

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Originally posted by Terry Blauwkamp:
Those 270 gr bullets are Horandy InterLocks, and work just fine.

I believe that Terry is correct in that the core-loct is a hornaday interlock.

I will go against the grain.... I have used the 270gr Hornaday interlock in 375H&H on Kudu, warthog, gemsbok, and hartebeest. They will kill these animals, but they are a bit lacking in penetration.

I found that these bullets would not penetrate the offside ribcage on kudu and gemsbok when shot through the shoulder.

Finding my bullet stopped in the soft tissue between the offside ribs is not my idea of adequate penetration. It does not have to exit the animal to make me happy, but I would like to have it exit the ribcage at the very least.

I like the load for the animals you mentioned and have used it successfully in Africa on plainsgame and one lion. It also thumps elk nicely!

A note on Hornady Interlock 270's...they no longer offer the round nose bullet for reloaders. Spire point, only, and that was a very bad decision on their part for me. The round nose shot very accurately in my rifle, but the spire point is unacceptable.

I have a box of the Remington loads that I'm hoarding. May take a couple of rounds to TZ on my upcoming hunt to use on PG.

The Remington core-lokt design goes back at least 40 years, well preceding the Hornady interlock I believe ...

Actually it was 60 years, ...

http://www.remington.com/produ...erfire/core-Lokt.asp

Chuck

The story is that Hornaday manufactures them for Remmington.

Would this be the same bullet that Hornady currently uses in it's .375 line up as the "270 grain SP-RP"?
I have this bullet in their .375 Ruger factory load #8231. Neither their website or box describes this as an Interlock. Instead, they say SP-RP stands for "spire point, recoil proof". They look similiar to the Corelokts but the exposed lead is near flush with the jacket and does not come to a true point.
They are also very accurate from my Ruger Hawkeye African. Will not have penetration information for another 17 days.


ChetNC

Your going to get LOTS of penetration .

My boxes of Rem 375 ammo make no mention of core-loct. Nor is any such advertised anywhere I can find.

I think the default bullet for Remington has been the Core Lokt for many, many years.

They haven't always done so, but fairly recently they have taken to spelling it out on the box flap.

The newest rendition of the Core Lokt is a bonded core bullet.

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Originally posted by Code4:
Your going to get LOTS of penetration .

From my own experiences with the 270 Hornaday(cor-loct), I disagree.

I agree with JBrown, for a non-premium bullet (you can buy them in bulk 1000 at a time), they are very good non-premium bullets. The won't hold up as well as any of the premium bullets (Partiions, A-Frames, Woodleighs, TSX's etc). The technology (before they started bonding them at least) is very simple. I do think if Woodleigh would incorparate the Core-Lokt feature in their Protected Point bullets, the complaints of over expansion in some cases particulary when they hit something hard (shoulder bone, etc) right off before they have to penetrate would disappear. Or maybe Remington would pay Woodleigh to lisence ttheir bonding process which is excellent.

Chuck

Just do a double lung shot and walk over to your trophy. I have used this round out of my 338 Win Mag on black bear, elk, and whitetail deer. Avoid big bones. Shoot them in the chest and it looks like a grenade went off inside! Jeff

I had a pre 64 Model 70 that loved them. I used them for plains game up to and including eland. Never had a problem with them other than the fact I could not get them within three inches of 300 grain solids. I later switched to 300 grain softs which were within an inch of the solids.

I used them on American Bison (one box only). Neck (spine) and heart shots at close range. Killed them, as Saeed said, but not a great bullet.

Would not use them so far away from home.

Lowest retained weight and penetration of any bullet I used on bison, including the 235 grain Speer.

For a better conventional bullet, see if you can buy some Winchester Power Points. These are a ductile and thick (0.049 inch) brass jacket w copper coating.

Andy

What do you think about this load for Lion?