.338 cal 225gr Hornady Interlock?

In the 80;s it was a good bullet in the dark red box and I shot many moose,elk,deer ,black bears and one grizzly.Hornady has cut corners somewhere in their bullet making as core separation and jacket slippage is now common.I'd try another brand and RE#19 is the powder.
 
mbogo3 said:
In the 80;s it was a good bullet in the dark red box and I shot many moose,elk,deer ,black bears and one grizzly.Hornady has cut corners somewhere in their bullet making as core separation and jacket slippage is now common.I'd try another brand and RE#19 is the powder.
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Exactly!! The "old" interlock and the "new" interlock are not the same bullet. Had a lot of core/jacket separations in the newer design. EE.
 
mbogo3 said:
In the 80;s it was a good bullet in the dark red box and I shot many moose,elk,deer ,black bears and one grizzly.Hornady has cut corners somewhere in their bullet making as core separation and jacket slippage is now common.I'd try another brand and RE#19 is the powder.
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RE# 19 is the powder for what?
 
I used the 225 SST for loads to help find a load for the 225 Interbond bullet. Cheaper and good for the range testing. As far as I can see the Interbond should be a very large leap forward in design from the SST based on some bullets I retrieved in the 30 cal versions. However, a 225gr SST Bullet doing 2800 fps at the muzzle should be just fine at 200m or further out because of the velocity drop. I however personally prefer the NP or the TSX for dispatching big critters at close in ranges where 95% of your shots will reside.
Elky...
 
mbogo3 said:
The SST is not what I consider a great elk,moose or bear round. Other's mileage may vary.
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Every bullet type out there has pros and cons. I have seen NPs blow up and go sideways. Likely because the animal was shot at 50 meters. It's very difficult to build a bullet that will perform reliably at close range and extended ranges out to 500 meters.

I haven't tried any of the newer Hornady 225 gr IL offerings. I picked up 15x100 count boxes 8 years ago. I use them in my 338-08/338-06. They do a great job at the ranges I'm comfortable with in the field. I can't comment on the 338 Win Mag because I just can't abide the punishing recoil.

I have heard other stories lately about jackets separating from the cores with these and other Hornady bullets. The people at Hornady are very good about following up on such incidences. They do like to have samples and lot numbers of course, if possible. I haven't talked with the good people there for a few years now. Still, they will want as many details as you can give them.
 
Went through that same song and dance with Hornady last fall with some explosive 9.3/ 286gr SP's . In the field NFG .........in the lab perfect.Long as you shoot ballistic gel They did replace them and more but more of an under the rug sweeping approach.Plausible deniability.Never had a Partition fail so far structurally or otherwise.
 
mbogo3 said:
Went through that same song and dance with Hornady last fall with some explosive 9.3/ 286gr SP's . In the field NFG .........in the lab perfect.Long as you shoot ballistic gel They did replace them and more but more of an under the rug sweeping approach.Plausible deniability.Never had a Partition fail so far structurally or otherwise.
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Yeah, things are changing there. They've lost their top ballisticion and another design engineer.
 
The Outsider said:
I keep an eye out for older boxes of Interlocks and Interbonds at gun shows all the time,

I believe they used more antimony in the lead back then, to make it softer, thus less likely to fragment.
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In reality, Antimony hardens lead, not softens it, so not sure what happened with Hornady there.
You are wise to grab some of those older boxes of interlocks, since the early ones were quite good.
I have several boxes of the old, now obsolete 8mm Interlocks [.323"] in 220 grain persuasion. EE.
 
New to the 338 WM, haven't used mine on game yet. I have 250gr Hornady SP's that I've used for punching paper. For use on heavy game I stick with core bond (or mono type) bullets. No sense experimenting on heavy game with anything else because non-core bond bullets just won't perform as well.

If I decide to use my 338 this season I will go find a supply of 265gr Nosler AB LR bullets. Good results with the 375 caliber 300gr AB. Impressive ballistic coefficient and won't fragment impacting heavy shoulder bone.

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For elk and moose I would choose a stouter bullet... but for deer and black bear the Hornady Interlocks SP's and RN's kill them every time, as do Speer Hot-Cor SP's and Sierra GameKing SBT's.
 
T O.............I have taken more than a couple animals with a 7mm RUM using 160gn Accubonds. I highly recommend this bullet in any 7mm Magnum cartridge. I also load them in my 7mm Wby, but have not yet hunted with this rifle. I have also found across the board that Accubonds tend to be one of the most accurate hunting bullets on the market in all calibers they are available. I use them in 25 cal, 26 cal, 28 cal, 30 cal, 33 cal, 35 cal and I have a bunch of test loads in 375 for a new one I picked up a while back. I tried them in my 9.3X62 but I wanted more than 250 gn so I went to the Speer 270 HC.
 
mbogo3 said:
In the 80;s it was a good bullet in the dark red box and I shot many moose,elk,deer ,black bears and one grizzly.Hornady has cut corners somewhere in their bullet making as core separation and jacket slippage is now common.I'd try another brand and RE#19 is the powder.
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Eagleye said:
Exactly!! The "old" interlock and the "new" interlock are not the same bullet. Had a lot of core/jacket separations in the newer design. EE.
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Yep! Three guesses what caliber it was.

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