[Evan03]

freind of mine is big 2506, partly the reason that i am now. he loaded up some 85gr nosler balistic tips and was telln me about long range shooting jackrabbits with them.


he said that he took a few at over 300yds yds and before he could finish i said that the bullets probly punched through with little damage. he asked how i knew that. i told him ive tried them on varmits at close and long range with similar results

so the next night we went out, we both have 220s, and a 2506 a peice.

i told him wed do some alittle comparision and that id bet my 2506 pushn factory core lockts does more damage than the 85 bts at the same range. finaly we spot some rabbits at lazer ranged 332.

offcourse as he spotn through his binocks i missed the first shot, held dead on and shot low, at that range the rabbits didnt move much and i recouped and nailed one with red mist and body parts flyn.

next was his 85bts going about 300fps faster than the 100gr core lockts. spoted some at 350ishs. he hit one first shot as i was spotn. no red mist nothn spectacualr. just flopped over dead.

though a 2 rabbit comparision wasnt much it was enough for us at the time and the 220s came out. i was shootin 50, 55, and 60gr hornady hollw points. the 50 and 55s are vmaxes..

rabbits in the 200-300rd were red misted with body parts flying. looked like little bombs going off. all bullets used. also took one at the lazer ranged 380.

at 380 the 50gr vmax was used because its what ive sigthed in for but i know where the 55 and 60s are hitn. the rabbit was grenaded put it wasnt pretty. it was held together with threads.

after varmiting and no deer exsperince over the years with the core lockt im not real sure of its big game virtue. to me at 3200fps it acts more like vmax and the 100gr nosler bt acts more like what id think the core lockt should act.

but there is no bigame exsperince with either of these bullets. just lots and lots of small varmits.

Evan

reread my reply and relized i have had some exsperince with core lockts and deer. ive taken maybe 3 bucks with 130gr .277 core lokts. results were as exspected and produced good clean kills. with little meat damage.

ive got no exsperince with 257gr 100gr core lokts on deer, just varmits