Meat damage with eldx

[Capt. Oblivious]

ELDX are terrible hunting bullets in 90% of rifles cartridges. They disintergrate on impact. HORNADY and all of their employee's should be wipped at a post for pushing ballistic coefiecents as the top priority in anything other than targeting shooting cartridges.

Their monolithic bullets in loaded ammo are either unobtanium and impossible to find or so expensive as to equall the same. They do not make a good hunting bullet for anything other than varmints and it is either a concious ideological choice or a sign of their engineering and hunting ignorance take your pick!

Their non-monolythics bullets are so bad that on actual game and ballistic gel even you can not tell the difference between the 6.5CM and the 6.5PRC because the bullet breaks apart especialy ELDX so easily that any extra energy that the PRC has is not translated into penatration or energy transfer because the bullets just break up!

Ballistic coefienct does not matter at all if the bullet sucks once it hits the animal. You can get a laser range finder dirt cheap capared to a rilfe, scope or ammo! Youc an dial what ever you need if you know the range. Only lazy target shooters fail to stalk an animal to within 500m if talking Elk, Mouse, Caribou, Deer. Humans have been doing it for over 10,000 years only those people wealthy enough to not need to hunt take 1000m shoots on game animals that are not varmints! Mic Drop! Prove me wrong! LOL

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[CJ6]

My second hunt with eldx. I can see more meat damage than in case of e.g. Lapua mega or other traditional type of bullet.
I shot yesterday 2 fallow deers and frankly speaking the hematoma in the meat was huge. I was hunting with 6.5 creedmoor.

I had similar results with Nosler Ballistic Tips (125 grain) in 308 Win. on whitetail and mule deer. The supposed "hunting" bullet just didn't stand up to close range (under 150 yards) impact velocities of the 308 (3070 fps). In your case with the lite weight animals ,close ranges and velocity it doesn't surprise me you had the results you did. I like bonded bullets for ALL hunting when I want to keep the meat. They deliver controlled expansion and retain their weight without blowing the animal apart. In no particular order Swift A-Frame or Sir., Woodleigh, Nosler, Hornady, They don't make them anymore but the old Speer Trophy Bonded Bear Claw was excellent too. Whichever your rifle likes best.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

40-80# thin skinned game meat damage is going to be an issue for 6.5 and larger diameter bullets, especially light for caliber/high velocity loads. They will perform like varmint bullets.

 

[Idaho-Lefty]

Terrible, Bad and Ugly, ELD-X bullets, must mean, MORE left on the Shelves and, better Sale Prices for,.. Me,..
Yippee !!!

 

[rdremsek]

Try sierra game kings I've used them for years great bullets shot placement is a must if you don't want to lose meat plastic tip bullets suck if you hit shoulder bone they explode as said by someone else neck shots doa

 

[mike mccormick]

Not a criticism,but with deer that size, look into acquiring a 222 and learn to head shoot.

 

[Bill K]

The bullet did what you wanted dropped both animals dead. However your choice of bullet is the issue, that type will open and cause more meat damage on point or entry and exit.
Use a strong bullet that will hold together and still pass through the vital and lesson the meat damage.
Hornady, Nosler, Barnes, Sierra and other all make bullet styles that will hold together and also do the job on taking down your game.