thetoad45
Member
When I was growing up on the farm we always had a single shot shotgun over the door and a 30-30 in the corner. For rifle ammo we always bought the old Remington Core Lokt or Winchester Silvertips from the local hardware store. By crackie they really worked well. When my dad and brothers started to reload for their 30-06 rifles it was the old Hornady interlock bullets they turned to. These were considered by us hicks to be the top of the line back then and what do ya know, they worked great also.. One of the biggest bucks I ever shot was with Remington 6.5x55mm 140 gr Core lokt ammo. One shot DRT... I quit hunting for awhile and just recently started getting back into it. I bought a couple of .270 Winchester rifles and got online to shop for bullets to reload some shells for my new rifles. What a shock I got! Seems the deer have grown armor since I last shot one. If everything I read in the forums are true I shouldn't be able to hunt anything without a premium bullet for fear of bullet failures or something along that line. Never had one fail before. I hunt deer sized game only. I doubt I ever will get the chance to hunt elk again so I have settled on bullets in the 130 gr range. After reading the reviews and suffering the sticker shock from reading how much these bad boys cost I again settled on the old Remington .130 gr Core Lokt thats sold in bulk. $167.00 a thousand. I can live with that. Hope the deer don't mind... I'm behind the times I guess.