Question about remington core lok ammo

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Remington core lok is pretty much the least expensive 308 ammo i can find locally so ive been feeding my tikka a steady diet of it since i got it. the question i have about it is that it seems each bullet comes with an small excess of lead coming out of the top. does anyone know if shaving this off will make the bullets any more accurate or will it hurt accuracy or effectiveness when hunting with it
 
That is normal. They are soft point bullets. If you look on the box it will say PSP for pointed soft point (or maybe plated soft point). What I do know it that I have dropped every critter I ever hit with Remington Core Lokts and they don't do too bad shooting for groups at paper either. Shaving this off would leave a small flat point on the bullet and would be detrimental to accuracy. Here is a pretty good run down of all those abbreviations: http://ammosmith.com/bullet-abbreviations.php
 
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^ he means at the end of the soft point there is little burs of led. Shaving that of wouldn't make much of a deference until you get to extended ranges
 
Don't reckon I ever saw that but if that is the case then no, it wouldn't hurt anything but, I doubt it would help much either other than like you say, maybe at very long ranges, in which case, your using the wrong ammo anyway.
 
When I first got my Ruger No. 1 in 6.5x55 Swede I bought 3 boxes of 140gr Rem CoreLokt for initial tests and a brass supply. I was getting sub-1" 3-shot groups at 100 yds with them, with no mods. I happen to like other bullets for hunting but I'd feel comfortable with accuracy AND terminal performance of standard Rem CoreLokts in both 6.5x55 SE and, by extension, in .308 Win.

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I used to get 1" groups with 150gr 30-06 CoreLokt through a basic Remington ADL. I hunted deer with CoreLokt in 30-06 and .303 Brit and the farthest any of them ran after being shot was 70 yards. I consider CoreLokt the best deal in hunting ammo out there.
 
Core-Locts ROCK! They shoot better than carefully prepared handloads in some rifles. A friends synthetic-stocked, pillar-bedded, 7mm-08, Rem Model 7 shot 3/8" groups at 100 yards with the stuff. I shot a perfect 3 leaf clover with it with all bullets touching.

My son's Rem 700 loves the stuff also. It performs as well on deer as any ammo I've tried, and that's saying a lot. (However, I now use non-lead core bullets in my high-velocity hunting rifles.)
 
In my area the only 30 06 ammo cheaper than Remington Corelocts is the maroon boxed Federals. But they both shoot great and perform well on game. I have not gotten good eneough at reloading to beat either one as far as accuracy goes.
 
I have notice the same thing on 243 core-lokts. The point of the projectile is not a smoothly machined point like a true spitzer. It is sort of a bubble of lead.

in my rifle, the 100 gr core-lokts are just as accurate out to 200 yards as any other 100 gr bullet, including some expensive ones with nicely shaped polymer tips.

I think that exposed bubble of lead promotes a more consistant and more rapid expansion. It is a very effective hunting bullet, and it obviously does not cost Remington very much to make them.... they are about the cheapest 243's you can buy.... accurate and effective on game. I honestly don't know why I keep trying other ammo.
 
I used the exposed lead tip as a pencil on my targets the other day since I forgot to bring a pen to the range. Actually worked pretty good too. LOL! :D
 
I have several boxes of 30-06 Rem PSP Core lokts....the thing that bothers me is within a box of 20 shells...about half of them will all have different bullet seating depths and oal.....i have some federal and winchesters that are all pretty consistent......but.....the corelokts shoot fine and do a great job on the deer ...i don't shoot long range and the corelokts put a deer/hog down just fine.
 
Sorry i have been trying to figure out how to upload pictures from my iphone for this and havent been able to figure it out. what i guess i originally was asking was that if there would be any advantages of taking this extra lead off so that it was flush with top of the copper jacket. my thought behind it was that it would make the bullets themselves more uniform to each other and might possible gain a little accuracy with a consistant bullet shape even though it would have a flat section at the top. it sounds like this however wont make a difference especially at the ranges that a t3 lite will be accurate within so i probably dont need to worry about filing down the nose of my ammo
 
Remember the adage:

"if it ain't broke, don't fix it".........

These bullets will definitely dispatch game and if they are shooting well in your rifle, leave it alone:)
 
The reason for a bit of exposed lead at the tip of many soft points is that it collapses on impact and starts the process of mushrooming a bit earlier than if the jacket material ran all the way to the end, and there was no exposed lead. Polymer tip bullets function in the same way, on impact, they burst open the gilding metal jacket, helping it to peel away and expose the lead.

No matter how many times you see it in the movies or read about it in fiction books, smoothing the tiny imperfections off of a bullet is not going to make factory loaded ammunition more accurate. There are hundreds of places that inaccuracy creeps in, in the ammo, in the rifle, in the environment, and so forth.

A bullet is gyroscopically stable. if it is concentric, uniform, and smooth, it is predestined to fly accurately. It would take a pretty big damaged area on a bullet to make it fly off it's axis. A miligram of misplaced metal won't do it, but as was shown in that box of truth page, a badly damaged area that screws up the streamlining and also messes up the concentricity will cause the things to spin out of control.

It would have been interesting to see what those groups looked at out at 300 yards.

Your remington core lokt are an iconic round. a solid hit with an adequate caliber, barring any unusual events, is going to drop whatever you hit. Period. and as far as accuracy, you may be able to find better factory loads for YOUR rifle, but I believe that core lokt will probably turn in accuracy equal to any other brand in at least 90% of production rifles.

My .243 would run 1" groups with factory 100 grain psp, and I never managed to better that with other brands or handloads.
 
Core-Lokts are one of the best "cheap" bullets you can get your hands on.

Don't worry about the lead.

If it bothers you, you can trim it and file it flush with the copper jacket. You may notice a nice increase in accuracy (but there's no guarantee). On-game performance won't be effected.
 
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