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I'm a bi-metal bullet kinda guy. I likes the IL.

No homogeneous copper for me.

Sexual??!!! Mono; one. (Not necessarily the opposite either.) The urban dictionary def? Yikes.......

klik - yep - ever heard of un-edu-mekated? or sat tire?

fish - I like them sentiments, me too!

I use Hornadys in .257, .264, .277, .284, and .308 calibers. Never an issue. Although I am going to try some Nosler solid base 100gr bullets in my .25/06 this year. Very accurate, and I have about 300 to use.

I use them, 150 - 190, in my -06 because they are easier for me to get to shoot than anything else I've tried. So I've reverted to the conventional bullet rules and carried on; 150-165 for smaller stuff and 180-190 for bigger stuff. At some point I will again take up the superbullet quest so I can use 130-168 for everything. Or maybe not!

Expat

For hunting, I have not found a better standard-priced, cup-n-core bullet then the Hornady interlock.

A couple a years ago I had 12 antelope tags and used my M77RL in 257 Robts on 5 of them 1 weekend. I was using loads I developed at 2950 fps with the Hornady 100 gr Interlock . (4) 1 shot kills in a row till I screwed up and under judged the wind on the last one had to shoot her 3 times. Range ran from 110 yds to 275yds most shot thru the lungs with exits and good damage to the lung tissue. I did not recover any of the 7 bullets used.I have shot in the past 12 antelope with the 25-06 ,3 of which were using 100 gr Corelokts loaded to almost 3400 fps none of them came out the other side and caused lots of damage on the near side.I no longer use them at this speed.A coworker of mine loaded his 100 gr Interlocks to 3300 in his 25-06 and said they came apart on antelope for him,don't know the range ,angle or other specifics to his kills with them.The point is the 257 Roy will push them 3500fps+ which will stress them even more.Not sure but I think that is what Weatherby loads in their factory 100 gr ammo. You need to try them and see if they work the way YOU want them to for performance on deer and antelope. Everyone has different expectations. I now use 115-120 gr bullets in my 25-06 but will use the 100 gr Horn SP with complete confidence in my 257 Robts. There is a thread running right now on the use of the 115 NPT for LR work you should read. best of luck. Magnum Man

Magnum Man,
thanks and found the tread.

Iterlocks shoot. 1952 Rem 722, 300 Savage, 4 @ 100yrds.

Its were good hunting bullets start. Hornady interlocks are a fine bullet, so good that when Remington came out with the 7mm-08 they loaded the ammo with the 139 gr SP. Hornaday Flat Base. That load was so good it was all I shot in the 7mm-08 I hunted with in the 1981 -84 time frame. Sure the Nosler Partition might retain a little bit more weight, but short of shooting really dangerous game, and even then if one chooses the right bullet for the task, you could hunt a life time with them and not find them lacking at all.

Key words flat base, stay away from the boattails if possible,never had an exit with 165gr bts out of a 308 and all shed their core but but all deer died,never recoverd to many il flat bases......my two cents....

In my experience, the flat bases always shot better in my .30-06 than the boat tails (165gr and 180gr).

Somehow I managed to survive an entire safari in the Northern Transvaal when I was shooting 180-grain Hornady BTSP Interlockeds in my .30-'06.

And HORRORS ... the Boat Tails ... I guess Seyfreid, who started this silliness about BTs, was looking the other way when they make my boolits. Somehow I managed to kill 26 head of plains game, the smallest of which was a warthog, multiple zebra, several blue wildebeest and a big fuggin eland ... yup and two huge kudu ... and I never slipped a single core.

Oh yeah, the 26 animals died to 26 bullets!

The shots were mostly close and I recovered 23 bullets. The average expansion was .78" and the average recovered weight was 156-grains. No slipped cores ... the bullets simply expanded right back to the cannelure and stopped there, just like Interlockeds always work.

In looking back, I've prolly killed 30-35 elk, likely more, with the Hornady Interlockeds and mostly Boat Tails. The 150-grain BTSP in my .30-'06 simply blows elk over. Helluva bullet in all ways.

Long live the Hornady Interlocked ... even the BOAT TAILS ... they are the finest standard cartridge bullet going.

Merry Christmas,

Steve

PS. Sometimes I wonder how many folks on the internet actually kill schit. The answers often mystify me. So much damned silliness.

Yep. I've had fantastic results from the 100 gr Interlock in my 257 AI at 3250 fps, and am getting great accuracy from the 117 gr version in my Roy although "only" going the same speed as the AI w/ 100s.

I love Interlocks. They're my go-to projectile for everything...

I believe it was Mule Deer (John Barsness) who called 'em something along the lines of "poor man's premium" because of how they perform compared to cost.

Excellent post, Dogzapper.

and I loved the PS....

I just simply said they shot better. Now, I did slip a couple of cores on the 165's, but I didn't see it as worth mentioning because they killed the critters and the shots were always less then 100 yards when it did happen (maybe 3x's?!?!?!).

IME, I found the flat bases to be more accurate at longer range (300 yds). That's all.

EDIT: Sorry, I thought Steve was responding to my post.

Steve,

I went back through my hunting notes of the past few decades, which include info on the bullets used and how they acted, and found just about as many flat-bases separated core and jacket as flat-bases.

And even if either kind separated, the vast majority of the the core and jacket were lying right together on the far side of the animal, meaning they'd already done their work.

Very rarely has the jacket left the bullet early on--and even then the core went on into the animal and killed it.

+1

I killed something once....honest......