ELD-X On Game

Togwotee

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Has anyone used the ELD-X on game at closer ranges?

Hornady just came out with a 145gr .277 ELD-X I'd like to try in my 270 WBY. I have no doubt they're a great long range bullet but I want a bullet that holds together at 100 yards as well. their soft points do but if it's like the SST I don't want to waste the time on load development.

















Stay Thirsty My Friends
 
I've use one at close range (545) and had a complete pass-through.

Really 440, I've heard they're nothing like the SST's and plan to try more at all ranges but so far just a couple kills at 545 and ...well... longer.

Time will tell.

Zeke
 
They will behave more like an SST than a X-bullet. Running around 3300 or so out of your Wby is asking a lot of a non bonded bullet at close range.

Tons of good info on them in this thread

http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f19/hornady-eld-x-official-thread-161172/


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>Oh boy, 545 is close range
>now!?

It was "tongue in cheek".
I haven't used them at close range and I'm sure 440 figured that out.
Zeke
 
This one is a .284 162gr ELD-X out of a 280ai going about 3050fps... The elk was at 150yds...
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Was the core still in tact or did you find them separate?

I've used the Hornady spire point 140 in my 264 win mag for years and had perfect results time and time again. but I had great results with the Solid Base Nosler as well. but when they put the tip on the Solid Base to create the Ballistic Tip it became much more fragile.

I have to assume to some degree the ELD-X will mirror that.






















Stay Thirsty My Friends
 
LAST EDITED ON Jan-25-17 AT 09:59PM (MST)[p]I used the .284 175gr ELD-X on a coues deer out of my 280ai this year as well... 300yds quartering away entered behind the should shredding the hart and exiting out the brisket about a silver dollar size exit hole.... I know coues aren't a large thick skinned animal but I was still impressed...
Edit for miss spelling...?
 
...sounds about what a core lokt hole looks like too...

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That's a perfect example of what a hunting bullet should look like. I'm shooting 200 g ELD-X's out of my 300 Win Mag but I've yet to shoot at anything but paper and steel. I hope I get the same results.
>This one is a .284 162gr
>ELD-X out of a 280ai
>going about 3050fps... The elk
>was at 150yds...
>
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A buddy put a 175 eldx through a deer length wise at 75 yards could fit a softball through the Exit hole in the hind quarter but that's plenty of penetration for anything in the lower 48.
 
>A buddy put a 175 eldx
>through a deer length wise
>at 75 yards could fit
>a softball through the Exit
>hole in the hind quarter
>but that's plenty of penetration
>for anything in the lower
>48.
I like my Barnes copper
 
Shot cow elk this year at 408 With a 6.5 creedmore. The bullet went right through.
It did kill her but bullet performance was very poor.

Also one at 500 with 338 lapua. Also pass through.

Both shots killed the elk but not with the performance of the bergers used in previous years.

Now I've made the switch back to Berger.
 
From what I've read, specialized bullet choices(for performance)always seems to have a "give & take"... some are too hard at long ranges (slower velocities) and pass right through without mushrooming and some explode with shallow penetration (higher velocities) if at close range.

2f350s: Hunt hard, hunt ethically.
 
ALL projectiles have the same or at least some "give and take balance" issue. This isn't limited to specialty bullets.

Certain bullets have designs to mitigate bullet upset deficiencies (tapered jackets, Poly tips, scored jackets, partitions, bonding, and other upset promoting or core locking methods) while some have no such design limiting their "proper" performance to a small velocity range.

Zeke
 
True Zeke!!
I use different types of the designs you mentioned in the different calibers I have to mitigate exactly that issue.

2f350s: Hunt hard, hunt ethically.
 

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