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I'm trying the 139 grain out of a 7mm-08 this year. Anyone had any good experience with it?

Yep. I've killed a pile of deer with the 130 INTLK as well. No issues.

I hope the new guys, and the guys at Hornady notice this thread.

You NEVER have a thread go three pages on the fire without a couple guys tuning in to say how much someone else's choice sucks...

Their is a fella on alaska forums and he cusses the interlock like their is no tomorrow. His bud used 338 rcm for moose using 225 hornady and lost most of a shoulder but he never elaborated if it was the sst or std sp interlock. I suspect it was the sst. I killed my first elk up by Timothy lake area using a interlock bullet. I killed plenty other animals using the interlock.

Bang. Flop.

That's been my experience with 170 grain 30-30 loads out of a Marlin 336.

The 150 grain interlock sure has worked well in my .300 Savage for many decades....

I've killed a couple of handfulls of aoudad with the 154IL/7mag combo. Not a complaint one from me on this fine bullet. My son has also levelled a few aoudad and whitetails with the 139IL/7-08 combo and it is a great combo as well.
Just this past May I was in Namibia and shared camp with a fine fella from Michigan who was on his 27th safari. He was toting a .338 and 200g IL's and they worked perfectly.

They must be pretty well regarded as being accurate too. When I bought my Hill Country Rifles 7mag a couple of years ago, they guarantee a sub 1" group with factory ammo. The ammo used to test the 7mags they produce was/is the Hornady Custom 154g IL loads.

I'm not really counting deer.

JGR: I used a .375 and Hornady 270 grainers on PG in Namibia on one trip.....absolutely perfect performance.

I was thinking that bullet would be perfect for elk too. Any experience with this bullet on elk??

I personally prefer the 165 grain bullet in a .308 bore, especially if the cartridge is a .308 Win or .30-06 Springfield.

The only time I ever saw any indication of bullet misbehavior was when I hit the spine on a raking shot, at close range, and at about 2900 fps mv with a .30-06. I can hardly fault the bullet in that case. The rest have been pass-throughs without any excessive damage. And, accuracy was more than acceptable. I have fired the 150 grain Interlock, but have never taken game with it. Accuracy was quite good in the rifles I fired them out of, and I would use them without reservation if inclined to do so. I simply prefer 165s.

I avoid the 150 SST like the Plague. The ones I had were glorified varmint bullets.

In 6mm, the 100 grain spirepoint flatbase is the most accurate bullet I have fired out of my .243, averaging about .6, so they discontinued it...

In my .30-30, with IMR3031 and the 170 grain FP, the rifle I have exhibits exceptional accuracy for a rattle-trap M94, and on-game performance cannot be faulted......so they discontinued it.

In .223, I have no experience with anything other than the VMax, and that's not what you're asking about, so I can't comment.

Yep.....The one on the right caught one....

Thanks Ingwe. I was digging thru my stuff earlier today and ran across some 270 gr. .375 pills. I also found some 300gr. Hornady solids????

You probably wont need the solids.....


Like any cored solid, they had a habit of deforming slightly on heavy game like elephant. Monolithic solid is the only way to go, should the great herds come back

... I will never use the solids...

I used the 270gr IL in my 375 weatherby mag many yrs ago on a east north side any elk permit. One dead elk no blood shot meat didn't recover a bullet though far as I know it's stuck in a tree I suppose.

I have used the 100 gr 243 dia,the 139 and 154 gr in 284 dia,and the 150 gr 308 ia ,with nothing but good results,over the last 35 years.

I use them or NBT these days.

60 SP has worked fine here on deer in the 223. I don't think I'd want to push it faster though.

The 195g 8mm is great in the 8x57 a little too "soft" formy liking in the .325WSM. I loaded up the 140 for a buddy in his .270 wonderful and consistent performance and accuracy.

The Hornady Interlock is one of my go to bullets.

I've used a bunch of 154 gr spire points in my 7x57 for a lotta years and has always been a consistently accurate bullet that has performed well on NY whitetails.

The 140 gr BTSP does just as well from a 270 WSM.

Dan