I have, among my other 7mm bullets, a couple boxes of older (classic?) bullets that I am thinking I might use in my 7X57 or 7mm RM. I would like to have experience or recommendations from others about applications...

1 box of 50 old style Barnes cup and core 140 gr. spitzers. Orange label marked .032" Jacket Spitzer SP.

1 box of 100 Sierra 140 gr. cup and core spitzers.

2 boxes (100 total) Remington Ultra CoreLokt (bonded) 140 gr. bullets. I have always liked CoreLokt bullets, but have no experience with the bonded bullets.

Thanks for any advice.

Load them shoot them.

Place them in the right spot and go home with game.

Those bonded bullets from Remington are good bullets, I haven't recovered one.

A year or two ago Academy was selling the Remington Bonded boxes of ammo on clearance, I filled up the basket.

I have used all the 140gn bullets you mention. They all work well. But for deer I am now using monolithic non toxic Fox bullets.

The old Barnes bullets supposedly used a pure copper jacket, which is very ductile and makes for sure and even expansion; however, it is also a bit "sticky" and tends to copper foul the bore.

The Sierras have a reputation for being too fragile, but for game that you would use a 7mm/140 on, especially at 7x57 speeds, their performance should be more than satisfactory. They are also typically accurate in most rifles.

No experience with the Rems.

Thanks, All.

I think I will use the Sierras for informal practice, I've some poor experience with 120 gr, 6.5mm in my 6.5 X 55.

Will try the 140 Barnes in my 7 X 57 for game.

The 140 gr. Rem CoreLokt Ultras will probably be loaded for use in my 7mm RM.

Thanks, again.

I alway liked the 150 gr. solid base Nosler that they discontinued, but recently bought 350 of them so good...This year I used the 120 Barnes tipped, and it was too hard on Hill country whitetail, drilled them and little blood, but we didn't lose any and not much meat damage, soooo good bullet..

The 140 gr. Swift Sirocco was a tad better, but nothing to write about///

Basically for those small deer or coues deer I liked a heavy varmint bullet for instant kills but lots of blood shot meat, Nosler partition are a tad hard for coues, I think I like the Hornady Interlock,Remington corelokts, or Sierra and in 130 to 140 gr....My favorite bullet in my 7x57 on Texas whitetail is the Speer 130 gr flat base with the boattail a second..at around 2800 to 2900, its quick to put them down..

Mule deer are so much easier to kill than whitetail,the whitetail is a hotter blooded animal..Ive seen white tail run a half mile with a proper shot, and many times up to a 100 or more yards, mostly Muleys just fall over backwards most of the time, but there are exceptions to both..

I'm building my 7x57 around the 160 NP.

The 160 partition is a great elk bullet in my 7x57..and Ive used it as well with same resuslts in a .284 Win..

for mule deer or whitetail I can't imagine a better bullet than the 130 gr. flat base or boattails..I sorta like the flat base the most think, and Ive used the 145 gr. speer on mule deer a lot and its a dandy bullet on heavy deer..