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Very awesome! Nice buck again and thanks for sharing!

Todd

Pretty good prices on 130 and 140 gr...

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1010475722?pid=321817

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1010472453?pid=162016

Great prices. I would be on some, if I did not already have a lifetime supply.

I really like the horn andy interlock and the swift a frame in 270 at 150 grains. They are deadly rounds and elevate the 270 as a great game killer, I think.

Thanks for that heads up! I stocked up on the 130 grainers.

Loaded 50 of these up last night in some new WW brass, have a few different .270’s so going to zero them all up and use as my back up guns for the rest of this year. Trying to shoot something with the .338-06 I’ve had for years and neglected.

Good to learn some first hand info about them. If I end up using one I will report back as well.


Mike

midway had blems for 20 a box

I got 2,000 from Midsouth Shooters Supply 15 or more years ago and just never got around to using any.

That's a healthy supply!

They were blems but I don’t see anything wrong with them and others have had good luck shooting the various blems over the years

I'd run Interlocks in a minute. Great factory bullet IMO. They should really elevate a 270's game, and that's saying a lot.

That bullet is for our bear loads here in Wisconsin. Only one 206 lb bear but it went through the front shoulders and out the rib cage . Bear went 20'. I use mostly Hornady now days cause I can get them. However , I have been buying Speer bullets cause they are considerably cheaper, but only used them on one doe my son shot , a .243 Win 100 gr.

Thanks for posting this

I have used a LOT of them but I never shot an elk with one.
I did kill a lot of deer with them as well as a few horses and cows on the ranch. When my Mauser 270 had it's 1st and it's 2nd barrels in it I shot more of that particular bullet from that rifle than any other. If something needed to be shot and I had the 270 with me that was the bullet it usually got shot with. I think elk is the only exception. Why.?...just because I typically had Partitions in my rifle if I was after elk, but looking back at what I saw killing those horses, I am pretty sure I would not have been disappointed if I'd have used an Inner Lock.

Like Mule Deer I also used WW2 surplus 4831 and I used a lot of GI 30-06 brass that I neck-sized down. I found in my Mauser that the same load of powder and the same primer would group the 150 Gr Nosler Partition and the 150 Gr Hornady Spire Points on top of each other. So for years I used the same load of powder with both bullets and never had a complaint.

I would buy them wrapped in clear plastic sleeves with 5 boxes together and most times I'd buy 2 or 3 of those at a time. I shot them a lot and loved them. My M70 Winchester shot them into just slightly over 1" and my Mauser with the 1st and the 2nd barrel shot them well under 1 inch The 2nd barrel was freakishly accurate for a long time---- until I shot the rifling's out of the throat.

Awesome animals. I use the original 140 interlock at creed speeds in my 6.5 cm. Great in the timber. For my 270 I bought a bunch of the 145gr eldx with the interlock on sale before the craziness happened. I have a bunch to last me a long time. I have had good luck with them too.

Calvin , what’s your load with the 145 x?

59 of rl22. Almost out of 22 so will be looking elsewhere. I have a few boxes of precision Hunter and that was very accurate for me too.

Why is Hornady keeping the shelves full and other manufacturers can’t ? Could it be that folks are buying the “other” bullets instead? Interlocks have shot fine in my handloads. Interbonds not so much…

Many years ago, a gun shop owner suggested I try the new Hornady Custom factory load with the 140 gr. Interlock bullet. It shot very well in my Weatherby Vanguard, within the factory accuracy guarantee. The rifle was new at the time and had severely disappointed me with Federal Premium 150 gr. loads which shot 6" patterns (not groups) at 100, so the 140 IL presented a refreshing contrast in performance. I handloaded some 140s and got similar results. I have had consistent pass-throughs with significant wound channels (like in the hole-in-the-ribs picture earlier in this thread) so I have not felt any pressing need to look for a different bullet.

I'm an interlock lifer. Have always trusted that bullet.