Was wondering who uses this ammo and whats the good and bad of it? My friend uses them in his 25-06 with good results but he shot a deer this year and it looked worse(bloodshot) than my 300 RUM does on a whitetail. For the money its a good bargain thinking of getting some for the wifes 7mm-08 to practice with and save the Partitions for hunting season.
I have shot it in 243, 25-06, 270, 308, and 30-06. It shoots very good groups in all cartridges and rifles that I've used it in and it shoots so good in my 25-06s, Marlin XL7 and Remington 700, that I have chosen not to reload for that cartridge.
Around Omaha, American Whitetail is typically less expensive than most Federal Fusion, Remington, and Winchester/Olin factory ammo and about the same as Federal Blue Box.
IIRC, Mule Deer posted that he bought HAW in 7mm-08 when he couldn't find component brass and was pleased with the results.
In the last two years I have taken two Bucks with one shot from my 7mm-08 using these rounds. No excessive blood and both dropped in their tracks. They also give me a minus one inch five shot group.
A guy that sights in his guns on my range uses it and it shoots great. You cannot go wrong with the Interlock bullets. I think that ammo is the best bang for the buck that is out there.
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I bought 2 boxes 139 gr. 7mm-08 for a friend , I put them on my concentricity gauge , it's the straightest factory ammo Ive checked so far. Farthest out was .005 most were .003 or under. She run 1 through a Mule deer at about 150 yards I didn't notice any more or less bloodshot than any other deer I've seen shot through the ribs. KH
I bought 3 boxes of it in 7mm08 mainly to get the brass. It shoots terribly in my rifle, about 3inch groups, yet if i use the same components i.e. winchester primers hornady 139 gr flat base and either varget or h4350 it shoots 5/8 to 1inch groups. So depends on the rifle.
It shoots very well in my daughters 700, and she has killed two deer with one shot each in the past two years. It doesn't want to chamber in my Tikka .30-06, which chambers all other factory ammo I tried. It does run flawlessly in my Husqvarna .30-06. I guess it goes to show that you need to check before you stock up on any brand of ammo.
I tried it out for the first time this year in a Savage 99 .308 150gr- accuracy was superb and one deer fell in her tracks, other ran 45 yrds with an excellent blood trail. I tried it again in my Tikka 7-08 139gr... accuracy is excellent and both deer ran 50yrds with excellent blood trails. All deer showed no excessive sign of meat damage from fragmentation.
My fiancees son ran this in his TC Venture 7-08 this season. He and I both ran 1/2" groups at 100. The doe he shot went 40 yards and tipped over dead. Very impressed with this ammo and that TC.
My custom 700 in 2506 doesnt like the reloads from my Jap 2506 they did not feed properly. I picked up a box of this after seeing how well it shot in the 7-08. The 2506 loved it. 1/2 inch groups as well.. Shot a doe high in the shoulder. Bang flopped her of course and lost an average amount of shoulder. Nothing I would call excessive. For the money, it's well worth it.
I have not used it on deer, personally. I did glass bed and do some accuracy work on a Howa 270 Win for a friend. When I finished I tried Hornady Superformance, Fed Fusion, and HAW in the rifle. It put the 130 grain HAWs under an inch 3 out of 3 groups and into .5 inch 2 out of 3 groups.
He killed 2 deer this Fall and said both were DRT shots on the shoulder, one at 154 yards, another right at 100.
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I have not tried the loaded ammo, but I've been shooting the Hornady Interlock bullets at whitetails for 15 years almost exclusively. I do all the family's reloading, so we're talking roughly 5 chamberings,and 12 different rifles, and all have done a good job at taking deer.
In my recollection, we've had only one bullet recovered in all that time, a 30 Cal 150 grainer. It was found under the far hide and was pretty well mushroomed.
My personal experience is that I've taken dozens of deer at ranges of 5-170 yards with 30 and 25 cal Interlocks. The deer have all died where they stood, or you could stand where they were shot and see the dead deer. I'm not much of a tracker, and most of it is that I don't get a whole lot to track.
If you're lauching an Interlock at a whitetail and you do your job, the bullet should do a good job for you in return.
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