Don't be concerned about the ELDM....you have to know how to use it. Please read Nathan Foster's data at ballistics research....ALL I use is the 162 ELDM and he explains very clearly why it works so well - but you have to be using it at the right velocity and distances - too fast a velocity and the bullet is no good at close ranges slow it down and it will slay beasts from point blank out to incredible distances. The assumption is you know how to shoot and are ethical in what you are capable of.
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Here is my post for a hunt I just returned from
Update on the 162 eld-M ….
9 days in the Maroon Bells Wilderness - right up the road from my house. Hard to get Early season rifle tag above timberline wilderness hunt.
"SENT IT" 840 yards, 17º slope angle - I was at 10,700 buck was at 11,500 hiding in a southwest facing jungle. He gave me a quartering away shot and I slipped the 162 ELD M in my 7mm 08 between the last two ribs angling towards the off shoulder. Bullet entrance was a 2" hole under the hide - it destroyed virtually all vital organs except the heart. He made it 10 yards before piling up and zero meat loss from fragmentation - meaning no exit hole. Ave. MV 2738 / ES 6
I will add this is a long range forum and if you are using "controlled expansion" bullets for long range applications you are WRONG. You must understand bullet jacket properties and how they work regarding distances and velocities - otherwise stay with your partitions and keep it inside 400 yards.
