Guys,

Have a ticket for Elk in Wyoming Area 98.

Been working with the rifle ... a pre-64 Winchester M70. Has a Krieger stainless barrel, a double pilar bedded McMillan stock, a black teflon coat, a 3-9 x 40 Zeiss Conquest scope, and a nice 2 1/2 lb trigger. Weighs 8 1/2 pounds.

Most accurate load so far is the factory Remington Express 250 gr Core-Lokt. Does 3" or so at 300 yards.

Rifle is not as happy with Federal HE Nosler partitions, and I can't get great accuracy with the Barnes 225 X projectile. Either would be fine at 100 ... but minute of Elk is pretty big.

Is the terminal performance of the 250 .338 Core-Lokt good enough for Elk?

Thanks!

Absolutely!If you can't kill an elk with that your not going to put them down with anything

It will work fine. My first elk was shot with a 7mm Rem. mag. with factory Rem. Core-Lock 150gr. The shot was 350yds. on a cow elk. Shot behind front shoulder and found bullet on opposite shoulder just underneath the hide. Picture perfect mushrooming. Mark

I've taken quite a few elk here in Colorado with a 180 grain "Core-lokt" bullet in my 30/06. It's a good bullet & you will not have a problem. Good Luck!

Good grief, they'll never work!

[ 09-02-2002, 01:21: Message edited by: Brad ]

A friend of mine as a out of the box ruger mkII that just loves rem factory 250s shoots them into 3/4 in and has shot quite a few 300 yard groups with then under 3 in. Remington must be doing something right with them. Win. failsafes well not group under 2.5. out of it. He well be use then remingtons on elk this fall.