Bullet size...

[Sandyhicks]

My 2 cents. I am a huge fan of all things 300. The weatherby is my favorite. I have 3 right now. I also have a 300 win., Pegasus, and a warbird.
I prefer a 165 corelokt or speer hot cor/ grand slam in the winchester and weatherby. They carry speed and energy well out to 400 yards and are also plenty accurate. I weighed 100 corelokts and they never dropped more than 2 grains below or 1 grain above the marked weight. I have never been able to beat that with much more expensive bullets. I have seen up to 5 grains below and above from bullets that cost 5 times as much as bulk corelokts.
If I could have only one rifle, I would get an old 700 BDL. I would scuff it down with 0000 steel wool, glass bed the action to 2inches in front of the recoil lug, install some steel rings with red loctite and add a VX3 to 3.5 to 10. I would find me some 4350 and a good supply of corelokt 150 or 165 bullets and federal 215s and never feel outclassed or under gunned.

 

[Sandyhicks]

A corelokt is a bonded core bullet. Just not advertised as such. Is a nobler partition better? Maybe?
3200 or so is plenty of speed.

 

[jdb]

180

 

[Westmichwtrdog]

If I could have only one rifle, I would get an old 700 BDL. I would scuff it down with 0000 steel wool, glass bed the action to 2inches in front of the recoil lug, install some steel rings with red loctite and add a VX3 to 3.5 to 10. I would find me some 4350 and a good supply of corelokt 150 or 165 bullets and federal 215s and never feel outclassed or under gunned.

Its funny that you just described my 1980 3006 to a tee.

In 2021 a friend was going bow hunting for elk in Montana. One of the 3 guys wife was due then so they moved it to a gun hunt. He had a brand new tikka T3 in 3006 but he is a bow hunter and waterfowler. So he asked if I could help. First thing we did was a proper break in of the rifle. Then he wanted to use Nosler Partition 180 grain bullets. I said if you can find them I will load them. He found 2 boxes of 50 so we were limited on how much we could use them for practice. So we used some of my handloads with 190 Sierra and the federal 180 my wifes dad left me. The gun was a tack driver from the get go. And if he ever complained about the accuracy I would sit down and fire 3 rounds and tell him it aint the gun. By the 4th or 5th trip to the range we had him working out to 500 meters and back to 200 and in between. Then shooting off the sticks he had and over his backpack. He was doing well. When his hunting partner missed at 250 yards on a nice bull my friend pulled his gun out and got setup. By now the bull was at 465. He took his time and shot him right in the boiler room. Then watched as the bull rolled all the way to the bottom of the ravine. Yikes! It was a long night and a hard trek out but he got his elk and even shared the meat as a thank you. Steve

 

[Sandyhicks]

Its funny that you just described my 1980 3006 to a tee.

In 2021 a friend was going bow hunting for elk in Montana. One of the 3 guys wife was due then so they moved it to a gun hunt. He had a brand new tikka T3 in 3006 but he is a bow hunter and waterfowler. So he asked if I could help. First thing we did was a proper break in of the rifle. Then he wanted to use Nosler Partition 180 grain bullets. I said if you can find them I will load them. He found 2 boxes of 50 so we were limited on how much we could use them for practice. So we used some of my handloads with 190 Sierra and the federal 180 my wifes dad left me. The gun was a tack driver from the get go. And if he ever complained about the accuracy I would sit down and fire 3 rounds and tell him it aint the gun. By the 4th or 5th trip to the range we had him working out to 500 meters and back to 200 and in between. Then shooting off the sticks he had and over his backpack. He was doing well. When his hunting partner missed at 250 yards on a nice bull my friend pulled his gun out and got setup. By now the bull was at 465. He took his time and shot him right in the boiler room. Then watched as the bull rolled all the way to the bottom of the ravine. Yikes! It was a long night and a hard trek out but he got his elk and even shared the meat as a thank you. Steve

I have a couple of 308s and several 300s. However, I don't have an 06. I need to buy 1 just because every rifle nut should have 1. I like the .30s almost as much as I like the .28s.

 

[Tyee]

I use 200 accubonds under 3000 fps. Wouldn't use core lokts on elk if they were free. Standard core lokts are good deer bullets but not for elk. The ultra core lokts are supposedly bonded but I have no experience with them. You want at least 180 grain bullets.

 

[Sandyhicks]

I wonder what size bullet the 270 and 6.5 advocates are shooting?

 

[Peakebrook]

I wonder what size bullet the 270 and 6.5 advocates are shooting?

NULA chambered in 270 WSM shooting 130gr Barnes TSX. Proven effective out to 550 yards.

 

[Sandyhicks]

270 wsm is what my daughter shoots.

 

[Fritz]

I am loading 140 Barnes TSX’s in my .270 win. They have a better bc than the 150 grain TTSX’s. My buddy shot a cow elk at about 125 yards this year with that load she went about 30 yards. Complete pass through. I am loading 168 grain TTSX’s for my bro’s and my .300 win mags. For us it’s the one load compromise for deer and elk. I would be hesitant to use a 150 grain core loc on an elk. I think 180 would be a better choice.