What is the difference between sst interlock and the sst interbond?

Go to Cabela's website, hit Hunting/Optics, then Reloading, then components, then Hornady Rifle bullets. You can see a picture there and read descriptions to the side. That's the limit of my knowledge on the subject.

Interbond the lead is bonded to the jacket, it might as well be one piece just softer in the middle so it can't seperate from the jacket.
Interlock is not bonded but has a ring of jacket material near the base to hold the lead from slipping out of the jacket upon expansion.

Lets get it straight; the nomenclature is interbond and sst interlock. Somebody at cabellas goofed when the interbond first came out, called it wrongly sst interbond, it's just interbond.



Bonded core bullets are not new. Bitteroot, bear claw and just recently swift scirocco are bonded bullets. Neither Hornady or nosler will say just how they bond the core to the copper jacket. In the past, one method was to "tin" the inside of the jacket with lead, getting a chemical/mechanical bond to it. Molten lead was then pored in, melting into the thin tinned lead and combining with it. Called soldered in cores they would not seperate from the jacket. High weight retention and resistance to fragmentation with controlled expansion.

There is no SST Interbond. The Hornady SST and Hornady Interbond are two different bullets.

https://www.hornady.com/shop/Bullets_SST_popup.htm

https://www.hornady.com/shop/Bullets_InterBond_popup.htm