HRNDY AW 300WIN 180GR INT 20/200

Description

Hornady’s American Whitetail line was built around one specific task: putting a reliable, ethical shot on a whitetail deer at the ranges most hunters actually shoot. The 180-grain InterLock bullet is the right choice when you need deeper penetration through shoulder bone or angled shots, carrying enough sectional density to reach vitals without sacrificing expansion at the velocities this cartridge generates at realistic hunting distances.

The InterLock design addresses one of the practical failure modes of older cup-and-core bullets: core-jacket separation on impact with heavy bone. Hornady solves this by pressing a raised ring inside the jacket that physically interlocks with the lead core, keeping the two together through the expansion event. That retained mass is what sustains penetration after the bullet begins to open, and it is what makes the difference between an exit wound and a bullet that dumps its energy in the shoulder and fails to reach the vitals.

The exposed lead tip gives this bullet a broader meplat than a polymer-tipped design, which promotes expansion at the moderate impact velocities you see at 300 yards and beyond, where a faster-expanding bullet might shed its jacket. The brass casing is boxer-primed and fully reloadable, so handloaders can continue to use this as a development platform after the factory load has done its job. At a muzzle velocity of 2,960 fps and muzzle energy of 3,501 ft-lbs, this load sits in the working range of the cartridge without being a maximum-pressure hot rod, keeping chamber pressures and bolt thrust manageable across a broad range of .300 Winchester Magnum rifles.