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I don't want to debate if we should or not. Just want to know if anyone has any first-hand experience with them on animals?
I don't want to debate if we should or not. Just want to know if anyone has any first-hand experience with them on animals?
My buddy has out of all of his 6.5s and likes there performance on game. I know he's killed elk at extended distances with them.
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The -X is supposed to be more hunting suited, have folks found much difference? Ryan is the some decent BC gain in the billet you are using for the -M over the -X or per my first question does it not matter much?
If I want a bullet that comes apart and doesn't pass all the way through, I might as well use the M.
The -X is supposed to be more hunting suited, have folks found much difference? Ryan is the some decent BC gain in the billet you are using for the -M over the -X or per my first question does it not matter much?
Interested as I was thinking of using these when I get my new gun.
But what about all the accubonds and TTSXs I have caught in animals that didn't pass through either and left much smaller wound channels?
Here's my concern.......a bullet that (1) isn't designed to come apart and kill like a Berger, that (2) didn't pass through on a small doe with nothing but ribs and organs to stop it.......what the heck is it going to do on an elk? Did the doe die? Sure, but it's a small doe......a .22 would have killed her.
The only time I've not gotten a passthrough with those other bullets were on quartering away shots where the bullet buried in the offside shoulder after going through most the chest cavity. And in some cases with Failsafes and A-frames, they still passed all the way through after breaking down the offside shoulder.
If this was the 10th animal in a line of successful ELD-X kills I might just chalk it up to a fluke. But being the very first.......I'm not quite as forgiving.
I believe the line of thought is at longer ranges with a more moderate impact velocity the bullet will peel more traditionally and maintain a hunk of mass to penetrate. At high impact velocities the bullet likely aggressively fragments and then the smaller pieces don't penetrate as well, esp. the -M which I believe has a hollow cavity behind the tip. What was the distance and muzzle velocity for the instance you were talking about?
I believe the line of thought is at longer ranges with a more moderate impact velocity the bullet will peel more traditionally and maintain a hunk of mass to penetrate. At high impact velocities the bullet likely aggressively fragments and then the smaller pieces don't penetrate as well, esp. the -M which I believe has a hollow cavity behind the tip. What was the distance and muzzle velocity for the instance you were talking about?
Ryan,
The Gunwerks guys have killed a ton with the ELDM. They tested them a ton in Africa and I was told the perform very similar to the Bergers we have all come to love. They also told me that they are liking the M over the X as the X is to hard for their liking. I just bought a box of the 208 ELDM to try and if I can get the accuracy I plan on killing my two Sitka bucks on Kodiak this fall with them.