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Are the Eld x bullets that bad
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<blockquote data-quote="YZ-80" data-source="post: 2917964" data-attributes="member: 109229"><p>Well, I think that in some circumstances, bullets perform as advertised but in a lot of cases, all bets are off. I’ve had good luck with the 143ELDX but in many cases, I’ve had stuff not perform as advertised. Pictured below is the exit hole on a crop damage doe. Looks like good performance to me. But sometimes I get weird results. Case in point is the 115 Berger Hybrid out of my .25-06. Moving about 3075 and a 200 yard shot. Perfect shot. No blood trail. We recovered the buck but the experience left a bad taste in my mouth and I went back to the 117 Sierra. I had another issue with my .243 and a 95 grain Ballistic Tip at 200 yards. Punched a pencil hole through the deer. Again, no blood trail and found the animal after about 45 minutes. I was complaining about this to a buddy of mine and he told me to back my charge off 1.5 grains and see what happens. Made a world of difference. Anyway, my take away it that it’s just unpredictable and there are too many variables. Certainly not advocating doing something like using a V-Max on medium sized game but half the time it seems like all bets are off. Small sample sizes don’t help either. Place you shots.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]499523[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]499523[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YZ-80, post: 2917964, member: 109229"] Well, I think that in some circumstances, bullets perform as advertised but in a lot of cases, all bets are off. I’ve had good luck with the 143ELDX but in many cases, I’ve had stuff not perform as advertised. Pictured below is the exit hole on a crop damage doe. Looks like good performance to me. But sometimes I get weird results. Case in point is the 115 Berger Hybrid out of my .25-06. Moving about 3075 and a 200 yard shot. Perfect shot. No blood trail. We recovered the buck but the experience left a bad taste in my mouth and I went back to the 117 Sierra. I had another issue with my .243 and a 95 grain Ballistic Tip at 200 yards. Punched a pencil hole through the deer. Again, no blood trail and found the animal after about 45 minutes. I was complaining about this to a buddy of mine and he told me to back my charge off 1.5 grains and see what happens. Made a world of difference. Anyway, my take away it that it’s just unpredictable and there are too many variables. Certainly not advocating doing something like using a V-Max on medium sized game but half the time it seems like all bets are off. Small sample sizes don’t help either. Place you shots. [ATTACH]499523[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]499523[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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