Re: Hornady InterLock .452" 245gr released for reloading
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 11:10 am
Hoot wrote:Jeepejeep wrote:By the way Hoot and Dawg, shooting from an AR how much Lil' Gun do you think I can use with this bullet? (Working up slowly 1/2 grain at a time).
With the Lil Gun I have, I would think 38gr would be the max for an AR platform. I'd say start at 36.5gr and work up in half grain increments. Too bad it doesn't have a cannelure. I'm no fan of smooth sided bullets in this caliber. BTW, welcome back. You were missed.
Hoot
i questioned hornady about the cannelure/no cannelure thing a couple years ago. i had noticed that a box of 110gr vmax 300 black i bought had cannelures and i was making sure they weren't mis-loaded with the 125 sst, or another cannelured bullet - because i had never seen a 110 vmax as a reloading component with a cannelure on them.
i was informed that when they sell loaded ammo, anything that *might* get used in an autoloader will have a cannelure on it to lower the chances of a setback during cycling. however when they sell the same bullet as a reloading component most of the time they leave the cannelure off - because many reloaders will not buy bullets with a cannelure as they feel it takes away from the accuracy. they explained that they could put the same bullet with and without a cannelure on the shelf next to each other... and the non cannelure bullet would always outsell the cannelure version. dramatically. they blamed it on old urban legend stuff stuck in the hobby, and that its baseless with current bullet technology.
so they're producing the same bullet with two different designs (with/without cannelure) because we the reloading community - as a whole anyway - tend to reject cannelures for the most part.
and thats also why when blems come up for sale, you might find bullets with a cannelure that you never see on the shelf as a reloading component. they're blemmed out bullets that were intended for loaded ammo and never for sale as a component.
HTH