The deadliest mushroom in the forest.......................

[FULLDRAWXX75]

I have always said it was the Remington CoreLoc Bullet.......................

With all the chatting going on about slug/bullet performance or lack of, damage, etc.

Over the years I have found/retrieved several bullets and will post pics and a short story with each:

First one is a 12 ga. Remington Slugger, deer hit left side of neck (facing me), slug recovered back side or rt. rear rump(just under the hide) It took out the heart, lungs and traveled the entire length of the deer with a 40yd shot. (It maintained 99.9% retention)

This one is a 240 gr .444 Marlin, Remmy Corelok..................the perfect mushroom(nearly 94% retention) This bullet traveled the entire internal length of 6pt. buck (the deer had been hit and was running directly away from us, I pulled up, aimed for the base of his tail and fired at 50 yds, he dropped in mid stride)the bullet hit between the hind legs and was recovered in the base of the neck.

The next two are 7mm Rem Mag, 175 gr. Remmy Corelok..................the mushroomed bullet was a 90 yd shot broadside shot slightly qrt. away, bullet hit a rib behind rt. frt. shoulder and was recovered on the backside of the scapula bone of the left shoulder, it had also seperated (lead core from the copper jacket) and only retained 67% bullet weight

The odd flat looking bullet is exactly that..................missing the entire nose section and completely flat on one entire side. The bullet hit a 1" dia. dead branch @ 10yds in frt of the deer (I didn't see it through the scope) the bullet hit, tumbled and made a rib cage entry with the bullet laying sideways. It tore a huge 2" entry hole in the rib cage and was recovered on the opposite rib cage under the hide. (Only 57% retention)

I still think the Corelok's are a great factory ammo, I just am not impressed with the performance of the 175 gr out of my 7mm mag. I strictly handload now.

Lastly, a .54 cal; 225 gr. Remington Gold Plate round ball. 75 yd slight qtr. away shot, rib cage entry/opposite shoulder recovery..............retained 98.5% and doubled its diameter and flattened to half its origin diameter.

I have seen some really crazy stuff over the yrs. from different caliber/bullet combo's, that is why I now handload and put in a ton of range time testing and working for the best combo I can get for my guns.

FDXX75

[Pygmy]

Cool post, XX75...  I  have always been interested in terminal ballistics, and I have saved some recovered projectiles over the years...I have a small collection of them..They are to me, treasured momentos from the hunt....I have a  7mm  160 grain Nosler partition that  killedmy first Alaska bull moose.. I have a Noexcuses 460 grain conical that killed a 6x6 Colorado bull elk...I have a Barnes X 250 grain  9.3 MM that killed a caribou, plus a number of other rifle, shotgun and MZ projectiles that I have recovered from game I have taken...I shot Winchester BRI standard velocity sabot slugs for years, and killed lots of deer with them and only ever recovered one...

Remington corelocts have always had a great reputation as a game bullet...Many of my hunting buddies who use factory loads swear by them..

[jhog1]

"I pulled up, aimed for the base of his tail and fired at 50 yds, he dropped in mid stride)the bullet hit between the hind legs and was recovered in the base of the neck."

That's called a Texas Heart Shot

[Lawdwaz]

Thanks for bringing this thread to the top. I also have a box with some lead/copper stories going on in it!

If we are lucky, Pygmy will have a Barnes TSX from his moose that he can show us that lodged under the skin on the off side shoulder on a quartering away shot found while skinning & quartering!!

I'll see if I can get some pics up of a few recovered slugs I have.

[Tikka T3]

I shot Ballistic Tips for several years and last fall went back to loading everything with Core Lokt.

6MM

308

708

30-30

35 Rem

Never lost an animal with them and I think less meat damage.