.270 130 grain Hornady InterBond - on-game performance?

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Just wondering if anyone had any feedback regarding ACTUAL EXPERIENCE using a .277 130 grain Hornady InterBond on big game.

Reason I ask, is that I had some rather un-fun experience with the 165 grain .308's not expanding, which has made me leery of them in general. But, I just got a nice little 270WSM with a long-ish barrel that will push a 130 grain bullet up good and north of 3300FPS, and my favorite bullet, the Nosler AccuBond, claims that 3100FPS is the upper end of their velocity limits. Hornady on the other hand, says theirs is good to a good bit higher velocity than that, so was contemplating giving the InterBond's another chance... I would assume, that at around 3200FPS or so of impact velocity on close range shots, that the cavitation alone would git-er-done pretty well, but am more concerned that these bullets might not expand well at longer range/lower velocity.


Thoughts?
 
Side note - anyone have any real-world experience with .277 130 grain Nosler AccuBond's and WSM velocities - I'd be interested to hear that, as well.
 
I've used them for the last few years and have awesome results!!! All my shoots have been one shot kills at various ranges(10-450 yards). Which includes a huge body Alberta whitetail buck(165inch) that dropped like someone hit him over the head with a hammer, quite the sight to see!!!
Accuracy has been excellent with my A-Bolt! Overall awesome bullet!!

-Madcarpenter:cheers:
 
Interbonds-maybe off topic...

I have used them in both my .308 (150 grains), .284 in 7mmRM and 2 7mm-08's (139 grains), they all worked as expected...perfect mushroom.

I dont see that calibre would make a difference in bullet performance....but what do I really know...the 7mmRM was a Ruger M77 MKII LS/SS and we ran 3275 fpsmv throught the Chrony...

The 7mm-08 chronies at 2987 fpsMV...I love the interbonds they have never let me down...we have taken Mule Deer & Whitetail at over 300 yds with the 7mm-08 and never had bullet failure...

This past year I shot a Moose at 7 yds and my wife shot a Moose at 167 yds...both shots raking breaking 1 rib on each side of the body and getting stuck in the far side hide...the went in weighing 139 grains and came out weighing 120 grains...only 14% weight loss...awesome...

Hope this helps, good luck.

Lee
 
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I will never use them again after this hunting season. Sorry for a bad review but I had 2 deer that I shot double lung run for ever and with almost no bleeding. One deer got away because it got dark before and I could not find blood (I saw the bullet hit) and she ran down a valley. i wasn't about to go down the valley in the dark after a running deer.
After opening them up the one I found it had very small holes poked through them like they were a FMJ or something, they didn't expand at all. I had much better luck with 140 Accubonds.
Not to mention that they didn't look great on paper either.
 
MagnumPeanut said:
I will never use them again after this hunting season. Sorry for a bad review but I had 2 deer that I shot double lung run for ever and with almost no bleeding. One deer got away because it got dark before and I could not find blood (I saw the bullet hit) and she ran down a valley. i wasn't about to go down the valley in the dark after a running deer.
After opening them up the one I found it had very small holes poked through them like they were a FMJ or something, they didn't expand at all. I had much better luck with 140 Accubonds.
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Hrmmm.... that sounds like the identical performance I got out of the 165 InterBond's in my 308 last year (once on an elk, and once on a deer) which is what makes me leery of them....:(

Was this with the .277 130 grain's?
 
brotherjack said:
That looks impressive - but how do you know they were 130 InterBond's?
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We were on the same hunt and worked on load development months before the trip. I settled on 130 grain Barnes Triple Shocks in my .270 Win (and 140 gr TSX's in my 7x57), Neo settled on 130 grain Hornady Interbonds in his .270 Win.

We signed up for the same "package" of animals and everyone had lots of opportunity to discuss the day's events every evening, including how the bullets performed on whatever got killed that day.

A common thread was that the TSX's tended to kill dramatically while penetrating the animals completely and leaving blood on the ground. The Interbonds tended to stay inside the animal - typically leaving no blood trail. The lack of blood trail was generally moot as the animals shot with the Interbonds (with a couple of exceptions) dropped dead.
 
Hornady introduced the new GMX bullets this year at NASGW and SHOT shows, there is a 130gr version for the .277 and claims great bullet performance up to 3400 fps. Could be a winner if your a fan of the monolithic bullets.
GMX - Guilded Metal eXpanding will compete with the TSX.
 
I saw several animals fall to 139-grain Interbonds shot from a 7RM this fall and they all performed admirably. Shots ranged from sub 100 yards to 279 yards. The mule deer shot at 279 was quartering away and he fell hard and there was a massive blood skid in the snow behind him as he slid down the hill. That was the only blood trail we had to follow and the only bullet we recovered but it looked like a bonded bullet should........
 
brotherjack said:
Hrmmm.... that sounds like the identical performance I got out of the 165 InterBond's in my 308 last year (once on an elk, and once on a deer) which is what makes me leery of them....:(

Was this with the .277 130 grain's?
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Yes, that's the bullet.


I'm not saying it happens everytime. Out of all the animals I shot with the 130 interbonds from my 270, which is probably around 8+ in the last 3 years, only this year did I have problems. It is enough that I'm not using them anymore.
 
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I load a 180gr IB for a buddy's 30-06. they are very accurate (sub MOA) and have preformed flawlessly on every animal he's used them on:

Black Bear
Grizzly
Bison
Elk
Mule Deer
White Tail
Moose
Cougar
Caribou
Wolf
Coyote
gophers.....
 
Remember bonded core bullets due to the heat involved in bonding the core to the jacket are usually softer and expand better then standard bullets like Hornady Interlock or Rem Core Loks.

They are actually recommended for low velocity rounds as much as the higher velocity rounds.

Yes the bonding process keeps the bullets together better... :D
 
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