longwinters
Handloader
- Oct 10, 2004
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I stopped out at Cabelas in Sidney NE yesterday. Was looking at reloading supplies . . . 25.99 for a pound of powder :roll: they have to be nuts! It was the highest prices on powder I have seen anywhere.
Anyway, a guy was talking to one of the employees behind the gun counter about what bullets to use on an up coming elk hunt. He was saying that he had spent thousands of dollars on this hunt and did not want to have to spend "big bucks" on 5 boxes of cartridges for practice and then hunting. The clerk told him to use Remington coreloks as they were a great Elk bullet :roll: :roll: Now here is some guy that is probably a pretty common hunter and has spent all this money on a hunt and wants cheap bullets. I had all I could do not to butt in and tell the guy to do it right. I waited until after the conversation was done and asked the clerk if the Rem coreloks had been changed at all in the last 5 years or so. He did not think so.
Now I used to use corelok cartridges before I reloaded. Out of an 06 with factory 180's. I shot at least 10 bucks with them from 12 yds to 100 yds and almost never had a pass through, often finding bullet fragments in the animal. This guy was going to shoot 180's also, but I did not catch the caliber.
I know the corelok's have a following, and probably there will be guys who would swear by them for elk, but if I was a manager and heard that conversation the guy would have gotten talked to pronto and the customer would have been told that good bullets are cheap compared to the price of his elk hunt.
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Anyway, a guy was talking to one of the employees behind the gun counter about what bullets to use on an up coming elk hunt. He was saying that he had spent thousands of dollars on this hunt and did not want to have to spend "big bucks" on 5 boxes of cartridges for practice and then hunting. The clerk told him to use Remington coreloks as they were a great Elk bullet :roll: :roll: Now here is some guy that is probably a pretty common hunter and has spent all this money on a hunt and wants cheap bullets. I had all I could do not to butt in and tell the guy to do it right. I waited until after the conversation was done and asked the clerk if the Rem coreloks had been changed at all in the last 5 years or so. He did not think so.
Now I used to use corelok cartridges before I reloaded. Out of an 06 with factory 180's. I shot at least 10 bucks with them from 12 yds to 100 yds and almost never had a pass through, often finding bullet fragments in the animal. This guy was going to shoot 180's also, but I did not catch the caliber.
I know the corelok's have a following, and probably there will be guys who would swear by them for elk, but if I was a manager and heard that conversation the guy would have gotten talked to pronto and the customer would have been told that good bullets are cheap compared to the price of his elk hunt.
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