.200g Hornady ELD-X precision hunter ammo

[WildRose]

I've shot quite a bit of it in all three 300wm's and two of the 300 Rum's.

It isn't a match for top quality handloads but it's been among the most accurate and more importantly consistent facory ammo I've ever run.

I'd say it's amost o par with the Prime Ammunition .260 Remingotion which is bar none the best I have ever used.

I wish I'd found it before I started loading my own .260 ammo to tell you the truth and their brass is excellent so there's no excuse to every buy another piece of Lapua brass at all for the .260's.

 

[Beardeddeer91]

I've had great luck with the 200 (and 212) ELD-x thus far. Granted it's a small sample size but all 4 critters just dropped. I've been wanting to try Berger VLDs in my new 300, now I just might have to sooner rather than later.

 

[WildRose]

https://www.hornady.com/ammunition/rifle/300-win-mag-200-gr-eld-x-precision-hunter#!/

"NOT" looking for any debate, just sharing a "real world" experience. I already know many have success with it. Yesterday, my buddy harvested a nice 6X6 bull elk at 426 yards with his .300 WM. The bull was feeding in an open meadow when the shot was taken but managed to run into the timber at ~2K yards. All four of us search for nearly over 2 hours no luck. Another hunter that was watching the event below us stumbled to the bull elk on his last gasp of life, apparently it was loud. The other hunter lead my friend to the bull and finally expired when they got there.

Anyways, it was a double lung shot ~ 3", small entry with extreme blood shot but no exit wound. The only evident blood trail was around 3-4 yards before he finally dropped. It looked like he drowned internally with his own blood.

Tough old bull, some just refuse to die. It cetainly seems the bullet did it's job.

I wish ever so muich though they had bonded the bullet so as to guarantee an exit virtually every time.

Did you recover the bullet? What was it's condition?

 

[WildRose]

My first antelpoe took 3 solid hits all of which were fatal through the lungs, with good exits and still managed to make it over three hundred hards before cratering.

Somtimes I think they just don't realize they are dead.

 

[FEENIX]

Tough old bull, some just refuse to die. It cetainly seems the bullet did it's job.

I wish ever so muich though they had bonded the bullet so as to guarantee an exit virtually every time.

Did you recover the bullet? What was it's condition?

Did not look hard enough for the bullet. I agree that the bullet did its job, the tough elk just expired longer than it needed to be.

 

[WildRose]

Did not look hard enough for the bullet. I agree that the bullet did its job, the tough elk just expired longer than it needed to be.

Bummer. I'm a terminal peformanc kinda freak in case you haven't noticed by now.

 

[FEENIX]

Bummer. I'm a terminal peformanc kinda freak in case you haven't noticed by now.

I was the only one that has the same interest as you but we have more pressing task at hand - securing the precious meat off two bulls.

 

[Peregrine82]

If both lungs were hit, it sounds like the bullet did what it was supposed to. Life is never a consistent thing in taking. I hit a Jackrabbit once with a 180 grain XTP out of my .44 Magnum right in the head from 15 yards away, it scalped it but did not kill the animal quickly. The rabbit then proceeded to charge towards me and ran up my leg covering me in blood before it fell after climbing half way up me and finally expiring. Sometimes animals are dead and don't know it yet.

 

[WildRose]

I was the only one that has the same interest as you but we have more pressing task at hand - securing the precious meat off two bulls.

Always the priority and they are a hell of a lot of work.

 

[Orange Dust]

Sure hope the 162's will blow through a deer. Bought some this summer for my daughters 7MM WSM. Was frustrated with no more brass and bought them for the brass. Intended to just shoot them up, and for the first time in my life, found a factory load that I cannot equal accuracy wise with a handload. That old Model 70 just wads them up... For a long ways. Whoda thought??

 

[Swt20082]

Any experience with 143 ELD-X in 6.5CM on Whitetail?

 

[razakain]

Not to hijack the thread, but the 143 works well on whitetail and hogs. I've had DRTs and never had an animal run more than 50 yards after being hit from my Creedmoor.

 

[Scottf]

Not to hijack the thread, but the 143 works well on whitetail and hogs. I've had DRTs and never had an animal run more than 50 yards after being hit from my Creedmoor.

I have been using ELD match for hunting based on the results of the work done by Nathan Foster. I have shot Kudu at 325 yrds and sable at 150 yrds. Kudu only went 40 yrds and the sable about 10 yrds. Nathan has a unique approach on bullet performance for drop them in their tracks quick kills, it works!

 

[Jinksedagain]

I had a pretty close match to your situation on a bull last year with a 300 wm. 200 gr. ELDx , 430 yards , cross canyon , quarter away shot.
Shot one froze the bull, through and through high lungs. Second shot same place through and through but he dropped . He took zero steps. Exit was pretty good hole out of his chest.

I used the VLD 210 gr. on a few bulls got jelly in side but no through and through. Fortunately I have only had positive experiences with both as far as efficient animal harvesting.