Side view - base-
left side (25 yds
100 gr retained
84.8 gr new Core- Lokt Ultra .243
Win.) Right pic is nose view
My
latest .243
Win., New Remington Core-Lokt Ultra bullet
terminal performance test information - pictured
above.
This bullet is now available at
Cabela's for Reloaders'
The WI 2008 Deer Hunt Public-TV program
11/13/08 on Deer meat lead poisoning;
WI
DNR page
emphasized using cartridges with
bonded
bullets
or all copper bullets to
reduce the lead fragmentation in deer
meat & lead
poisoning
The 25
yard .243 Win., 100 Grain "Remington Premier Core-Lokt Ultra Bonded
Bullet Terminal Performance Test I Promised."
I used (3),
three gallon capped plastic milk jugs &
another 1.56
gallon Ultra Sun clothes detergent plastic jug (equals 4 jugs)
filled with water backed
up with numerous old magazines. The bullet above went through all
(4) four jugs back to back and the magazines stopped it! That is
penetration!
The 100 grain
Remington Core-Lokt Ultra bullet demonstrated tremendous
explosive performance on the first jug going
through all four jugs and
found in front of the magazines. At only 25 yards the mushroomed
bullet weighed 84.8 grains with an over 2X .489 caliber diameter
expansion that went past the base of the bullet.
The 100
grain Nosler Partition
bullet blew open (3) three gallon capped plastic milk jugs of water
sitting in a row at 16 paces and was still going, with no bullet
recovery.
95-SST
blew-up one jug and one
tiny fragment caused a very small leak in the second jug
-95-SST 100 yard plus broadside lung
shots only - violent explosive hydraulic
shocking power
-due to all of its energy being shed within the first plastic milk
gallon jug of water. (.243
Winchester cartridge) I
performed a 95 gr SST bullet terminal test with my 243/06 Wildcat
[243/06
Wildcat aka 6mm-06] at only 16
long paces with two one gallon plastic milk jugs filled with
water
lined up with a short distance between them. The bullet totally
blew-up the first one and
blew the second water jug up leaving the remainder of the bullet's
copper jacket
inside it. The
remaining jacket
only weighed 22.2 grains of the original 95 grains, result - lead
fragmentation & lead posioning. Except for long range
shots on deer, I will use the
rest of these 243/06 SST reloads on coyotes. I am loading the 100 grain
Remington Core-Lokt Ultra bullet for deer & for elk if I ever get
to hunt them.
If you notice any of these signs below, stop shooting and find the cause before firing or reloading any more.
Let
me know how this NEW
bullet performs: "Remington Premier Core-Lokt
Ultra" Ammo
The special bonded
construction retains 85% of original weight and delivers controlled
expansion "up to" 1.8 times the original
diameter.
Serious performance from point blank range "out
to 500 yards." (Reduce lead fragmentation - lead poisoning
by shooting bonded or all copper bullets cartridges!)
Cabelas.com
has the NEW 100 grain Remington Premier Core-Lokt
Ultra (CLUB) Ammo
in 243-Win., & other caliber's on the shelf at Cabela's PDC store.
Forget about shooting deer at 500 yards with any bullet with a standard 243 Winchester cartridge, follow Rick Jamison's advice. Rick Jamison writer for Petersen's Hunting Magazine, July 2002, p- 20, Guns & Loads Article Long Rangers, - says in essence, that for deer sized game you need a minimum of 1000 ft/lbs of energy and 2000 ft/sec velocity at the impact range for adequate bullet expansion. The bullet needs a sectional density between .215 to .265 and a high ballistic coefficient for long range shots on deer sized game animals.
I
filled an empty plastic one gallon milk jug
with
water and shot it with the new 95 grain SST bullet. It appeared to be
one
of the most explosive bullets I have tested in my .243 Winchester. The
hydraulic
shocking power of this bullet on broadside lung shots ought to be
devastating on coyotes & Canadian timber wolves.
On 10/17/04, I filled 3 one gallon plastic milk jugs with water lined in a row at 15 yards and shot them using my Remington 722 with a 22" BBL, in my "243 Winchester" using the Hornady 95 grain SST bullet and 44 grains of RL 19. It blew the first two up big time and went through the third one gallon jug of water. This should be a very good terminal performance bullet on deer in the 243 Winchester caliber cartridge.
Click on SST - Super
Shock
Tipped Bullets
Flat-based bullets - at closer ranges
these bullets will lead fragment the meat, therefore I may use these
loads up on coyotes!
HUNTING
- SHOOTING - BALLISTICS PAGES Your rifle's ballistics -
trajectory - wind drift - plus lead on running game, etc.
243/06
aka 6mm-06 wildcat loads
Darrell
- udarrell -
Posted: 10/03/03; Revised: 11/16/08