First Look: Remington Core-Lokt Lever Gun Ammunition

Ballistically superior rounds for your lever gun.

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posted on February 27, 2025
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Remington Core-Lokt Lever Gun Ammunition

Remington Ammunition is expanding its Core-Lokt Tipped ammunition line to cover lever-action rifles and carbines with the new Remington Core-Lokt Tipped Lever Gun product line.

“Big Green is excited to be bringing the Core-Lokt Tipped family into the world of lever guns,” said Jon Langenfeld, research and development engineer at Remington Ammunition. “The resurgence of the lever gun was a welcome sight within Remington. We knew it would only be right to allow every lever-gun shooter, whether novice or expert, the ability to utilize the trusted performance of Remington’s Core-Lokt Tipped in a variety of lever-gun calibers.”

Most lever-action firearms use a tubular magazine, which places cartridges in front and behind each other in the magazine. For safety reasons, lever gun calibers are not loaded with pointed, spitzer-type bullets due to potential danger of a bullet’s point sitting right behind the next round’s primer, which may result in an accidental discharge. Blunt-nosed bullets are used in these magazines to prevent this, but the trade-off has always been less efficient ballistic performance, especially at longer distances.

All Remington Core-Lokt Tipped Lever Gun bullets use a green polymer ballistic tip which reduces each bullet’s “blunt” profile to boost its ballistic performance in a way that’s safe for the inside a lever-action firearm’s tubular magazine. However, the Core-Lokt bullets still expand into their classic “mushroom” shape to stop game.

This new product line counts on some classic American lever action calibers including .30-30 Win., .45-70 Gov’t, .32 Win. Special and .35 Rem. In addition to this, Core-Lokt Tipped Lever Gun is also available to shooters in the modern .360 Buckhammer chambering.

Remington Core-Lokt Tipped Lever Gun Caliber List:

  • .360 Buckhammer, 180 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,400 fps
  • .30-30 Win., 150 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,390 fps
  • .35 Rem., 200 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,080 fps
  • .45-70 Gov’t, 300 grain: Muzzle velocity 1,900 fps
  • .444 Marlin, 240 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,350 fps
  • .32 Win. Special, 170 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,250 fps

Please visit remington.com to learn more.

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