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Which bullet for deer for 6.5CM inside 400 yards?
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<blockquote data-quote="Savage16Hunter" data-source="post: 1556661" data-attributes="member: 64123"><p>Sounds like several of us have some bad real life experiences with the 143 ELD-X. Mine was a 185 yard slightly-quartering away shot on a doe. She was DRT, with a broken off-shoulder and no exit wound. I could feel some SMALL pieces of the bullet under the skin on the off-side and it took me a while to find the entrance hole, because there was not a drop of blood anywhere. It's a good thing she was DRT, because tracking would have been impossible. Seconds after the first deer, I shot another doe at 195 yards - DRT with a neck shot. Small entrance hole and 3" exit with a shattered vertebrae, but definitely not my preferred shot. The ELD-X is an accurate bullet, shooting sub-MOA in my Savage Lightweight hunter, but I think I need to go to a mono-metal to be more certain the bullets hold together, since I also want to hunt hogs with my 6.5 Creed at longer range.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Savage16Hunter, post: 1556661, member: 64123"] Sounds like several of us have some bad real life experiences with the 143 ELD-X. Mine was a 185 yard slightly-quartering away shot on a doe. She was DRT, with a broken off-shoulder and no exit wound. I could feel some SMALL pieces of the bullet under the skin on the off-side and it took me a while to find the entrance hole, because there was not a drop of blood anywhere. It's a good thing she was DRT, because tracking would have been impossible. Seconds after the first deer, I shot another doe at 195 yards - DRT with a neck shot. Small entrance hole and 3" exit with a shattered vertebrae, but definitely not my preferred shot. The ELD-X is an accurate bullet, shooting sub-MOA in my Savage Lightweight hunter, but I think I need to go to a mono-metal to be more certain the bullets hold together, since I also want to hunt hogs with my 6.5 Creed at longer range. [/QUOTE]
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