Plain vanilla Hornady Interlocks......

SC - you are correct. The point here is that people used the old design interlock on elk and moose all the time without the need of a premium bullet. And they continued to do so because they got decent performance. They trusted the interlock and hornady in general.

Now they no longer feel they can trust hornady because they made a change to their favorite non-premium without ever informing anyone about it. It certainly causes me to ponder the situation. If I can't trust that the same bullet is inside the same box today, tomorrow, a year or ten years down the road then what's a guy to do?

This is simple capitalism. The interlock was too good a bullet to have alongside the newly introduced interbond so they had to dumb it down so that they could make more money on premiums instead. If they had done this and told consumers, fine. But the silence is deafening.
 
aletheuo said:
This is simple capitalism. The interlock was too good a bullet to have alongside the newly introduced interbond so they had to dumb it down so that they could make more money on premiums instead.
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You're right. It's kinda the same as Remington having it's entry level 788s outshoot their top-of-the-line 700s.

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From my understanding the problem Interlocks (& I have seen a failure) seem to be confined to the .308 cal bullets.
Or is this new construction carrying over to other cals now?? :mad:
 
senior said:
From my understanding the problem Interlocks (& I have seen a failure) seem to be confined to the .308 cal bullets.
Or is this new construction carrying over to other cals now?? :mad:
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The calf moose I shot this fall died to a 165grain Interlock in 308. Bang flop, slide down the hill. Bullet not recovered. Didn't seem to be a failure to me.
I've nothing but praise for the Interlocks I've used so far.
 
The 375 cal 270g interlock is different now, different part number too. I sectioned one and found it to have the same interlocking ring as always. It has a different tip, flat with 6 very small notches for expansion.
 
Republic of Alberta said:
The 375 cal 270g interlock is different now, different part number too. I sectioned one and found it to have the same interlocking ring as always. It has a different tip, flat with 6 very small notches for expansion.
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Here's a couple of older ones taken from two moose..

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Not too shabby!

Ted
 
I've used the interlocks in most calibers up to 416's and 458's,when velosity is reasonable they perform very well.I even took a decent Mtn caribou a couple years ago with the 300 win and 180gr SST,hit him at 90yds and it left an good exit hole.I love the hornady 250gr RN in the 35 whelen&350 rem mag,Hunt and shoot long enough and you will see bullet failures even the TSX has bullet failures every now and then.
 
Well said grit. Hornady has done IMO a pretty good job of supplying us with five different grades of pill
-SST
-plain vanilla Interlock
-Interbond
-African line up

The 250gr 338 was a favorite of ours for moose.
That being the round nose version.
 
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