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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #45 on: December 17, 2017, 06:42:45 PM »
Right.
Trying to be a cool kid talking about your BC. I bet it’s a 6.5 creedmore too.
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #46 on: December 17, 2017, 06:43:38 PM »
6.5 creedmoor norma improved
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #47 on: December 17, 2017, 06:44:12 PM »
If you have to ask you aren't cool enough for the cool club
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #48 on: December 17, 2017, 06:45:54 PM »
6.5 creedmoor norma improved
Oh ya? But is it a +p?

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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #49 on: December 17, 2017, 06:55:23 PM »
Shot an elk with the eldx at about 450, didnt go more than 15 yards one shot kill.  Didn't find an exit and right behind the shoulder.  Positive experiences with them in a .280AI and 6.5-06AI. Also Bergers can be devastating and can't go wrong with accubond.  Killed many many animals with sierra game kings but never a Barnes bullet, could never get them to group worth a darn.
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #50 on: December 17, 2017, 07:02:02 PM »
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #51 on: December 17, 2017, 07:03:16 PM »
Shot an elk with the eldx at about 450, didnt go more than 15 yards one shot kill.  Didn't find an exit and right behind the shoulder.  Positive experiences with them in a .280AI and 6.5-06AI. Also Bergers can be devastating and can't go wrong with accubond.  Killed many many animals with sierra game kings but never a Barnes bullet, could never get them to group worth a darn.
does your 6.5 have a benchmark blank or the old rock creek?
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #52 on: December 17, 2017, 07:13:16 PM »
I try and kill everything I can at 99.7 yards. That way I don’t have to worry about BC or improving anything.
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #53 on: December 17, 2017, 07:16:10 PM »
I only shoot from 100 yard increments. Move back or up so I'm on the money. Unethical to shoot from uncertain distances.

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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #54 on: December 17, 2017, 07:18:03 PM »
I run the 30 cal 212's out of my 300wsm. I've also done load development with various sizes in a few other calibers as well. Like has been said before, accuracy is amazing, and it is hands down the most pleasant bullet I've ever loaded.  If you think these bullets are gonna act like an accubond, you will be disappointed.   They will come apart but as stated before, they are expanding violently and causing massive internal damage. Wyoming buck I shot a few times but he was dead on his feet after the first shot. Distance was like 350ish.  All bullets exited. Bull elk at 380, steep downhill facing me.  Took him in between the shoulders.  Bullet did not exit but bull folded like a cheap tent.  Colorado mule deer at 800 was messy.  Found the jacket on the off side. 

If you are keeping shots inside 500 or 600, the standard accubond is pretty darn hard to beat.

What velocity are you getting with those 212s out of the 300 wsm?

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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #55 on: December 17, 2017, 07:36:12 PM »
I run the 30 cal 212's out of my 300wsm. I've also done load development with various sizes in a few other calibers as well. Like has been said before, accuracy is amazing, and it is hands down the most pleasant bullet I've ever loaded.  If you think these bullets are gonna act like an accubond, you will be disappointed.   They will come apart but as stated before, they are expanding violently and causing massive internal damage. Wyoming buck I shot a few times but he was dead on his feet after the first shot. Distance was like 350ish.  All bullets exited. Bull elk at 380, steep downhill facing me.  Took him in between the shoulders.  Bullet did not exit but bull folded like a cheap tent.  Colorado mule deer at 800 was messy.  Found the jacket on the off side. 

If you are keeping shots inside 500 or 600, the standard accubond is pretty darn hard to beat.

What velocity are you getting with those 212s out of the 300 wsm?
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #56 on: December 17, 2017, 07:39:19 PM »
I rather piss in the wind,then have piss down my back.

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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #57 on: December 17, 2017, 09:18:55 PM »
150 yard shots man!! Who cares about BC!

150 yards? Heck, the way things are going in a few years we'll be flinging arrows at 150 yards. :chuckle:
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #58 on: December 17, 2017, 09:36:22 PM »
150 yard shots man!! Who cares about BC!

150 yards? Heck, the way things are going in a few years we'll be flinging arrows at 150 yards. :chuckle:
wait you don't already?   :peep:
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Re: Experience with Hornady ELD-X bullets?
« Reply #59 on: December 18, 2017, 11:48:36 AM »
Shot a deer and elk last year with the 30.06 factory ELD-X. 
- Deer from 250yds, missed a little high, hit him in the spine and trashed two vertebrae (so much so that I reached into the entry wound and pulled out large bone fragments by hand), which somehow didn't keep him from getting up after about 3 minutes and walking away before I hit him in the foot (I suck at this, can ya tell?), which stunned him enough for me to approach and put one behind his skull to finish off the poor beast.  Great bullet, bad shooter!
- Elk from about 40 yds, high just behind the shoulder, small entry, small exit, completely trashed spinal column that killed him instantly. I did recover the lower jacket from the spine, but the core passed through. Hard to ask for better.

This year, I got another elk from 30 yds with the 7mm-08 ELD-X factory ammo.  Hit through the shoulders -- pencil entry, pencil exit, completely trashed aorta, anterior lungs, and liver, with no more than fist-sized chunks of bloodshot meat loss in the chuck.  100% retention/pass-through as far as I can tell. 


So far in 3 experiences, it's been pretty flawless. 

 


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