- Location
- Central; Alberta
So this year I found a rifle I could not say no to when UFA closed gunstore/WSS in Red Deer. A 300WSM Supergrade M70. I put a 3.5-10 Leupold B&C Reticle scope on it. Unfortunately the busy farm season kept me from shooting it till After harvest so I only put 15 factory loads through as a breakin with acceptable accuracy from cheap Win PP. I was going on a hunt soon and just found 25 old Hornady 165 gr SPBT interlocks on my shelf and decided to try a stiff load of H4350 and go to my outback range to evaluate the loading. I was more than happy with the first 2- 3 shot groups. so settled on this loading. I did not see a trophy buck all November, and carried this rifle 25 days without a shot. In the last week of season I hit an old honeyhole and came up with a shot at this bull, only about 175 yards, but I had to thread it though some firs . Elk went about 10 yards, with much leakage and tipped over. Very happy with performance of old Hornady Interlocks, IMHO they have yet to make a better performing bullet under most conditions. I have used SSTs Interbonds GMXs and have seen erratic performance and poorer accuracy than the old Interlock BTSP. Not a ###y new design but I have had nothing but good results with it over 25 years. I looked on bullet box, had CustomGunShop on label, so that tells you how old these pills were.
