Hornady Interlock

The Hornady Interlock bullets act like Nosler partition bullets and keep the lead core from being sucked out of the jacket. Meaning they mushroom well and keep their bullet weight, if you ever dig up your bullets at the range some make bullets loose their lead core. And the Hornady Interlock never loose their lead core when I dug them up at the range.
 
Great bullet accurate for my ranges (<300 yds)and cost effective! I've shot deer, moose, Coyotes, and hogs...clean kills and none of them complained that I was using a "cheap" bullet!
 
bigedp51 said:
The Hornady Interlock bullets act like Nosler partition bullets and keep the lead core from being sucked out of the jacket. Meaning they mushroom well and keep their bullet weight, if you ever dig up your bullets at the range some make bullets loose their lead core. And the Hornady Interlock never loose their lead core when I dug them up at the range.
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They hold together kinda ok if shot at 2700 fps or less, etc. Shoot them hard out of some guns and they will surely separate from their cores. That being said, I have had good results with them in non-magnum calibers. My experience has been with them in .243, .308 and .30-06. Very accurate in their flat base form. Boat tails will separate from their core almost every time.
 
I feel that the later versions of the interlock are not quite as good at staying together as were the earlier versions.
Don't have a lot of evidence to back this up, since I am a believer in premium bullets for hunting.
However, I did have one sour experience with a 270, 140 grain BTSP interlock on a Whitetail deer.

It was a while ago, and I was in a blind waiting for the deer to show. When a decent buck appeared, I have him one
in the ribs. He jumped high in the air, and hit the ground on all 4 feet, but instead of running, he walked quickly about 30 yards
in behind some willows. I could see a 4" patch of hide behind his front leg, so I gave him another. He obliged by dropping down,
dead.

That first interlock had hit a rib and exploded, with no part of the bullet getting in to the cavity at all. Quite a large shallow wound
on the impact side. The second one missed ribs on both sides, and exited after doing a number on both lungs.
I believe the first shot stunned him, thus the strange reaction. Last animal with that bullet for me.

I believe at slower speeds, they will work fine, but.......Dave.
 
i was a bit hesitant to use interlocks to a degree, it is a ford v holden dog eat dog world, an i always fell for the corelokt adverts...

in nz i opted to use factory ammo in he 270, it was the whitetail hornady stuff, a 130gr interlock. sweeeeeet as.

Ive used them in big bore .358 on buffalo and found the 250gr SP a good thing for a SP.


now days id proberly opt to use Hornadys over corelokts for SP hunting rounds
 
Remington has been known to contract Hornady and use their Interlock bullets in their Corelokt ammunition. They’re basically (and some times exactly) the same bullet.
 
OP, I've used Hornady Inter Lock bullets for a long time now. Even the SST IL types do the job well, when placed properly. They are IMHO the best value for a great bullet design, that you will pay a lot more for with other premium brands. No, I'm not knocking the premium brands one bit.

I know of folks that don't shoot as much as they should because of the costs related to premium quality bullets.

OP, you won't go wrong with those bullets. They stand up well even at magnum velocities. I load the 7mm bullets in my 7x57 at over 2800 fps and slightly slower in the 7-08 but only because of the lower case capacity.

I've used them on Elk, Moose, Black Bears, Deer and last year one Wolf. As long as I did my part well the bullets did everything they claimed they would and better. The only bullets I recovered were in a Moose that was shot around 200+ yards away on a quartering angle, that took out a rib on the impact side and another rib on the off side. The perfectly mushroomed bullet was caught in the hide.
 
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