Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles Hornady Interbond vs. Nosler Accubond...

Before I read all the responses this was the only thing I was going to comment on.

In my experience it has been a hell of alot easier getting the AB;s to shoot than the IB's. And I am a hornady fan also!

I bet I have those. I`ll look and see. The rest will eventually end up in the classifieds. The Accubonds now are offered in about all the weights I use most.

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Hey Pop kinda wondering were you've been?

And that makes 3.The sticker looks right at home on my fourwheeler.Badge will be going on my hunting coat.

I shoot the 165 IB's in a '06 and accuracy was excellent. They put an azz whoopin on several hogs. But.... I had to change lot #s and accuracy turned to crap. I have never got around to weighing the current lot. For now they are mothballed while I try the super-duper, kills everything even if you just come close to your target TSX's. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> When time allows I will check back with this lot of IB's and see if I can figure out what the problem is.

Best to ya .. BP...

Been here and noslerreloading.com

do not really go anywhere else that much

I have shot 2 deer with 150 interbonds out of a 308 win and found a bullet that retained 115gr and was expanded in a classis mushroom and caused instant death.
The accubonds have killed 4 and I havent recovered any. The accubond wont expand as much as the interbond will, it will shed some of that front weight so that it can get deeper penetration kind of like this:

150gr AB out of a 308 win loaded to 2840

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this was an easy "accubond-induced" blood trail






I have shot them from 15 yards to 236 yards this year and had excellent blood and always 2 holes, no recovered bullets. That being said, I have not shot any through the shoulders.....

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Now THATS what I am talking about boys !!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Nothing like the Accubond Blood Trail (ABT) tecno term........!

What is interesting is that your exit at 308Win velocity looks the same as mine out of a 300WSM....probably a 300FPS difference in impact velocity.


Nice.

Tony

I think it is obvious from this thread that performance on game is very similar. And their is actually very little difference in cost now. I personally have had better success getting Accubonds to shoot accurately in my 3 guns that I have compared (308, 7-08, and 7wsm). I would use these bullets on anything I will ever hunt (deer, elk, moose, etc.). They expand, they penetrate, they retain about 70% of their weight, and they give some pretty impressive bang flop kills if that is what you like. They flat out get the job done.

what are you loading your 308win accubond loads with: weight, powder, primer, brass?

yeah mine are around 2840 fps at the muzzle out of a 24" 1 in 12" Kreiger

I'm loading 150 gr Accubonds, 48.0 gr RL-15 (1 gr below Speer's max for 150 gr BTSP), WLR primers, R-P brass, and getting <1" MOA. Great bullets, I'm sold on them. I have a T/C Encore ProHunter with a 28" barrel and getting well over 3000 fps with this combo (you should get upper 2800's to mid 2900's with a std length barrel). And in my 7mm's, the 140 grainers are just as accurate (if not moreso) and just as deadly. It is good to know before you ever pull the trigger that it is a dead deer. These bullets give me that confidence.

Sako,

3170MV out of a 24" Pederson bbl............

Yea, that would be about 300fps diff.

Well done.

Tony

I have only tried a couple of loads with the 139 gr. Interbonds in my 7mm-08 and 154 gr. Interbonds in my .280 and in those initial loadings, I was not real impressed with the accuracy that I was getting but admittedly I have not tried very many loads yet. Hopefully I can get something to shoot as I have a box of each yet!

"I" have gathered that overall, in most instances, the accubonds are more accurate

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me, from the reports of those here on this board (I've never shot either bullet personally), that the IB's tend to retain a little more weight than do the AB's. AB's seem to average 60-70% and the IB's seem to average ~80%...

I would have assumed different, as I believe the HIB's are a bit thinner on the jacket compared to a NAB.

I put a finishing shot into a coues deer at about 30 yards with a 140 NAB from a .270wsm (MV 3150). the bullet broke the onside shoulder (1/4ing to) smashed heart/lungs/guts and was recovered on the far side in front of the hip. Retained weight : 90 grains... thats from 30 yards and a MV of 3150. not bad in my book!

As I stated in another thread the IB's seem to have a larger frontal diameter and retain around 80% of their weight from the bullets I have recovered. All but one have been DRT with the IB. The AB's however seem to be less finicky as for accuracy. The 8pt I killed with the 257 Roy and 110 AB did not impress me with the exit which was about the size of a dime and went through both shoulders and he still made it 60yds. Others that I have talked with have said in their .308 calibers that the AB's exit holes were around the size of nickels to quarters depending on the distance. Most of my IB exits have ranged from quarter sized to golf ball. If my gun shot both the same I would shoot the IB's.