I will not be hunting any game with the 212 ELDX's. They are accurate but not a killing bullet, IMO. I would be curious to see how you would do on elk with a 225. I'm not sure X or M. I am trying to develop a reload with different bullets but work has kept my range time way down this year.
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Eld M will fail without a bone hit. We did it and was not a good day. Lost the elk. Best elk round I've ever used as a 230 target hybrid from Berger
VLD Pilot
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ELDMs are excellent on deer regardless where they are hit. Elk, I cannot say but James sounds like he has that experience covered. It's all I use on deer out to and beyond 800.
VLD Pilot
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Kinda of a bad comment saying "regardless where they are hit". My meaning was any vital hit works using the ELDM on deer. Re-read my post and sounded wrong.
No sweat my friend understood
Calvin45
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You don't happen to mean WITH a bone hit do you? Cuz that's what I'd have been more worried about. That they'd blow up too much on an elk or moose shoulder. Not that they'd fail to expand, ever. I've seen how violently they expand on something as comparitively non-resisting as a pumpkin (not a water filled one, just a pumpkin - they are violent as all get out)
The 225 eld m in particular is a different animal…compare the plastic tips of the 208 eld m and the 225…the 225 is much larger, the hollow point it's covering is huge!
Sierra TMK, at least the 195 grain, is even more massive but I have no experience with that one
They lack deep penetration for elk. Eldm. But are great on smaller animals like deer.
Calvin45
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Okay that makes more sense! When you said they'd fail without a bone hit I thought maybe you meant they'd just FMJ through with an ice pick wound and i just couldn't see that happening.
What eld m in particular did you have these disappointing results with? Caliber and weight?
225 eldm 300 prc.
Deer they work great
Deer 6.5 crm 140 eldm
Eldx for elk out of the two.
VLD Pilot
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Great info because it may have become my next Elk medicine. I'll stick with the Nosler Partitions, Scirocco's or Accubonds. Hard to beat those. The strike bonds do look appealing for sure.
