Problems with interbonds?

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I am currently shooting 165 grain interbonds out of my 30.06 at around 2950 fps. I figured this would be a great hunting load....i think I may have been wrong. While these bullets certainly have no issues with penetration i think they are holding up too well and are penciling through not causing much damage. I have rarely used more than one shot and usually no more than 2 to bring down game, now since switching to the interbonds I am pumping an average 4 rounds into animals to get em to go down....deer, bear and moose. Now before you ask there were good chest hits on all these animals...in fact the moose had 3 through the boiler room and was still on his feet...autopsy showed way less internal damage to the lungs than there should have been. I am switching to the Barnes triple shoks but just wondering if anyone else has had any issues with these bullets?

Chris
 
I am having great luck with the 154's in my 7 Mauser.
Wolf, quartering away at 80 plus yards, one shot going just behind the ribs on entrance, out in front of the vitals. I did not skin it but by the blood I would say the lungs and heart were toast. It dropped on the spot. Bullet did not expand any that I can tell, two 7mm holes.

My Whitetail was about 250 yards, quartering towards me. Bullet went in just inside the right shoulder, blew off one rib, took off the top of the heart, blew the right lung and then continued on to stop just short of the pelvis.
81% weight retention. They shoot so well out of my rifle I have to say I will be using this load for awhile!

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I've taken a couple of deer with my 30-06 and 150 gr Interbonds.... no complaints from me on their performance on deer, but I wasn't satisfied with the accuracy out of my rifle. I did do some informal expansion tests with the Interbonds and Nosler Partitions a few years ago into wet paper, and the Interbonds seem to expand but hold together, just as Hornady claims. Of course animals and wet paper are two different things, but the Interbonds seemed to perform similar to the Partitions.
 
I loaded 180gr IB;s for my buddy's 30-06. has taken two bucks in aberta since and has been very happy with results.

I have 225gr IB's in my .338-06 but have yet to put them in an animal
 
I took a buck with one last year; very good results with the 165gr Interbond in my 300WM although it went through a lot of bone so there was no chance of it penciling through. Accuracy is outstanding for me as well. I'll be using them again this year for whitetails...if CanPar gets here by Saturday. :runaway:
 
I have had the opposite problem with them pancaking on contact and causing massive entry and exit wounds - and subsequent bloodshot - on deer. I am driving them at 2900 fps out of my '06 and at 2650 out of a buddy's 308.

If I were you I would contact Hornady and ask if they are aware of any problems with bullets from your lot number.
 
I'm with 'Boo on this one. So far I've found them too devastating. BUT this is based on only one experience on a incorrectly placed shot. My son was shooting my new .300 WSM loaded with a 180 gr elk load. He got a little too far forward into the shoulder on a 120 yd. shot. It did significant damage to the entering shoulder, blew lungs and part of the heart to pieces (bone shrapnel???) then a 2'' exit whole on the far shoulder with blood run so bad it had to be tossed. Definetely no pencilling::D
 
If I were you I would contact Hornady and ask if they are aware of any problems with bullets from your lot number.
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I have had several people suggest i may have gotten a "bad batch" so I think I'll take your advice and contact Hornady. They sure are accurate in my gun and my results don't seem to be the norm from what I'm hearing here so maybe I just need a new box.
I'll contact them and see what they say.

Chris
 
I've got both a mulie and a black bear with my current load of 165 IB over 57gr of IMR 4350. Not sure the speed as I don't own a chrony!! The mulie was just a little over 200 yds and the bear under 10. Both died one shot. The deer was hit in the brisket the bear broadside. I found the core separated in both cases. I like you find them very accurate in my A-Bolt and the animals are dead. but the bullets don't quite hold up like I thought they would.
 
hey Mr Cranky Pants, the TSX will put stuff down like no other bullet, IMO. maybe you could help WillyQBC out and suggest a bullet for him to try, based on your experiences on game, instead of just ridiculing others
 
Republic of Alberta said:
Ummm... I think you need a little more experience on game if that is your conculsion.
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Like I said, I did not skin the wolf, a trapper did it for me. Once I get the hide back from the tannery I will measure up the hole diameters for you if you want to be like that! Honestly you couldn't tell entrance from exit except for the blood on the exit side. It's hard to get more experience too when the animal dies on the first shot each time too! lol :p

If it didn't hit any bone, there is not much resistance to offer with the light hide and smaller amount of soft flesh than say a deer, for what Hornady claims to be a premium grade hunting bullet.

We can only hope a Bull Elk steps out for me this weekend so I can offer more info, just like what happened to my Whitetail, for a better judgment.;)

I can also offer as was mentioned before, when I fired a couple rounds into a big block of wood at 150 yards, both slugs came out looking just like the one I have in the picture, only weighing a small margin more.

Noel
 
Noel, the size of the holes in the hide has almost nothing to do with the expansion or final diameter of the bullet. An example of this is one of the doe's I shot this year with a 162g SST. It had a small caliber sized hole going in the hide with a fist sized entrance in the ribs. The exit in the hide was also caliber sized. This is normal for a bullet such as a Partiton or Interlock which the jacket folds back against the shank of the bullet. It is also common to have a SMALLER hole in the exit side of the hide than the ACTUAL size of the bullet, this can be due to the fact the skin is pushed and streched way out when the bullet goes through. The hide then shrinks back to normal size, shrinking the hole as well.



Bartell, no wonder you think the TSX is the greatest bullet of all time, I guess anything is compared to the X bullet of 10 years ago.
 
X's, like most bullets, and just about anything produced (bullets or not) get better over time. Its called evolution. Although not as accurate as the current X bullets, they performed on game just as well. Ive killed about two dozen head of game with them since then, and I havent seen a bullet put game on the ground as quick as the X bullet. Maybe your one Xperience wasnt up to what you thought a bullet should do. Thats fine, everyones mileage varies
 
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