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<blockquote data-quote="Batsin" data-source="post: 3024255" data-attributes="member: 126867"><p>Although this is an old thread, I wanted to point out that in addition to the cannelure, a feature of many Core-Lokt bullets is a flair in the core near the base from a thinned section of the jacket. It is subtle in many instances, but shows up in the photos of the round nose bullets sectioned by Petey308 (top photo, circled in red). Some of the bullets have a core with a more pronounced "hourglass" shape (which showed up in some older advertisements), but some just have the small section at the bottom of the jacket. This very small thinned area can be seen at the bottom of all three sectioned bullets in the second photo. Oddly, this thinning of the jacket exists even in bullets that have other core-retention mechanisms. The Core Lokt Tipped bullets appear to also have a Hornady-like interbond lip above the core flair, both of which are more clear in the third photo. The Core-Lokt Ultra Bonded bullets, for some reason, have even larger sections of thinned jacket near their bases. It is more exaggerated on the Ultra Bonded Core-Lokt (extreme left) in the bottom photo.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]540260[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]540253[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540266[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540254[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]540255[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Batsin, post: 3024255, member: 126867"] Although this is an old thread, I wanted to point out that in addition to the cannelure, a feature of many Core-Lokt bullets is a flair in the core near the base from a thinned section of the jacket. It is subtle in many instances, but shows up in the photos of the round nose bullets sectioned by Petey308 (top photo, circled in red). Some of the bullets have a core with a more pronounced "hourglass" shape (which showed up in some older advertisements), but some just have the small section at the bottom of the jacket. This very small thinned area can be seen at the bottom of all three sectioned bullets in the second photo. Oddly, this thinning of the jacket exists even in bullets that have other core-retention mechanisms. The Core Lokt Tipped bullets appear to also have a Hornady-like interbond lip above the core flair, both of which are more clear in the third photo. The Core-Lokt Ultra Bonded bullets, for some reason, have even larger sections of thinned jacket near their bases. It is more exaggerated on the Ultra Bonded Core-Lokt (extreme left) in the bottom photo. [ATTACH type="full" alt="1707011352758.png"]540260[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Core-lokt-v-core-lokt-tipped.jpeg"]540253[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="core lokt tipped.jpeg"]540266[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Core lokt ultra bonded.jpeg"]540254[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="ultra bonded corelokt scirocco Rem solid Aframe.jpeg"]540255[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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