Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Express Rifles and Big Bores Only Hornady interbond 500 gr .458 roundnose going out of production

Anyone know why? I have some .375 Interbonds that I am a little reluctant to use in the field now. Were they discontinued because of terminal performance, production costs, ???

Both the new design solids and the interbonds were discontinued due to terminal performance. Hornady is scrambling to get the old designs back in production as fast as they can.
I hear the designer of these new bullets also invented new Coke.

SOS

Maybe I am being optimistic, but because Midway doesn't stock them doesn't mean Hornady doesn't manufacture them does it?

I think they are just changing back to the old style steel jacket because of terminal performance differences.

I'm thinking it had something to do with a Hornady safari to Africa and the use of the 416s on Cape Buff that didn't go smoothly.

That, in my view, doesn't make them bad bullets, just not up to the intended task and pricing goal perhaps.

I tested some of the early ones before they became expensive:



These were fired into big moose bones and recovered in wet newspaper. The three on the left are 500 Interbonds, the rest 405 Woodleighs, all fired from a 45-70 Ruger #1. The bullet on the far left is simply a wet paper expansion. The jackets on the gold colored IBs do seem a bit brittle.

Accuracy potential seems okay - these three shot groups were fired at 75 yards:



They were a great bullet and real bargain at the price they introduced them. Once you raise the price, you also raise the expectation.

They're changing back to a standard jacketed Interlocked; there's no ferrous metal in the soft points.

Thanks for the info fellas. I guess I will go back to the Interlocks. I have used many in 30 cal and am happy with performance, as long as you dont push them too fast. Anybody have any firsthand expierience w/the larger RN interlocks?

Recovery of these were unintentional. They were fired into the backstop of my club's range when I was first trying them out in my (then) new .458 lott. That backstop was comprised of logs cut 3' thick facing down the axis of the log. Dirt was behind the log. The idea is that the log catches most of the stuff we throw at it. In this case, both my softs (interbond rn 500 gr .458) and solids (rn fmj enc) Hornadys made it through the logs entirely, and were found in the dirt behind the logs.

Dan