HRNDY AW 350LEG 170 GR INT 20/200

Description

Hornady’s American Whitetail line was built around one straightforward premise: give deer hunters a loaded round that performs with the same care a handloader would bring to the bench. The .350 Legend chambering makes this load a natural fit for hunters in states that restrict rifle deer hunting to straight-wall cartridges, where the Legend has become a go-to choice for its manageable recoil and terminal effectiveness at woodland distances.

The 170-grain InterLock bullet is the mechanical heart of this load. Hornady’s InterLock design incorporates a raised ring inside the jacket that locks it to the lead core, preventing the two from separating on impact. That mechanical bond keeps the bullet together through the initial crush zone and into the wound channel, which matters most when a shot angle isn’t perfect or the bullet has to work through shoulder bone before reaching vitals. The result is a soft point that opens reliably without shedding its core — the energy stays in the animal rather than passing through as fragments.

Hornady loads American Whitetail to consistent pressures using brass cases, which matters both for reliable ignition in cold-weather hunting conditions and for reloaders who want to recycle once-fired brass. The propellant charge is selected to deliver consistent velocity across a hunting-relevant temperature range, not optimized purely for peak numbers on a chronograph. This is ammunition tuned for the field rather than the target range, and it reflects the kind of no-nonsense engineering that suits a hunter who wants confidence in the cartridge without spending custom-load money on range practice.