270 win with hornady 145gr eld

Would actually be one of the very last bullets I would choose. I am more an advocate of bullets that stay together better than the ELDx, such as TTSX, Accubond, and Partition. In the boiler room it will obviously do its thing, but all bullets do that in the boiler room. It's when they are not in there that things can get dicey at times. I've only ever NEEDED a premium a few times, but it was nice having them when I did need them. The absolute cheapest part of your hunt is the bullet. Why skimp or compromise.
 
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The long range accubond is just as fragile as the eldx it also is hard to stabilize in the factory twist barrels .Talking from experience.
I would look to the TTSX or regular accubond far tougher .
Hard to find too.
 
If I was forced to use an ELDx (in ANY caliber, including 338) I would stick to broadside or quartering away shot angles. They are not deep penetrating bullets. A friend of mine shot a bull elk with the 145gr ELDx last fall from his 270 WSM. Frontal shot at 20 yards, the bullet failed to reach the vitals. Luckily the bull only went a short ways and offered a follow up shot which did the job
 
I also did some testing with the 145gr eld-x among many other bullets by shooting them into a snow bank and inspecting the results in the spring when the snow melted. I found eld-x to be very fast expanding and almost blowing apart consistently. I would use them for target and deer broad side, but not moose for all the reasons others mentioned. As a side note, all the usual suspects such as accubonds, performed boringly perfect. Besides that the 130gr Winchester power point were actually the most consistent in expansion and weight retention-all perfect mushrooms!
 
I've gotten 2 bull elk with 140 grain regular accubonds, I prefer them before any long range bullets. I have one long range gun that likes accubond long range. I don't use it enough to be good with it. All other rifles get the regular accubond or ttsx.
 
G.E.FLACH said:
The long range accubond is just as fragile as the eldx it also is hard to stabilize in the factory twist barrels .Talking from experience.
I would look to the TTSX or regular accubond far tougher .
Hard to find too.
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I have no problems what so ever stabilizing them in my factory 26” 10 twist 300 rum. 190s and 210s both!
 
I shot a good size cow Elk with the 6.5mm - 142 LRAB. In all fairness, the shot was 380 yards.
I was using my 6.5x55AI, and MV of that bullet is just shy of 3000 fps.
The Elk was DRT, and I recovered the remainder of the bullet, around 65 grains IIRC.

The LRAB are definitely more fragile than are the regular AB, but the bonding prevents them
from blowing up completely.

I shot a young Bull Moose at 125 yards with my 308 Norma Magnum and the 210 LRAB.
The shot was nearly broadside, and the bullet exited, so no blow up there.

I am not advocating the LRAB, I do prefer the regular AB, since it is definitely "tougher"
Regards, Dave.
 
My brother dropped an OK deer with a load I made him for his 7x57, 150gr LRAB, and it was a close range 50 yard shot, full pass through the lungs, blew lungs out it's nose, fell right over without taking a step. They are a little less solid then the AB but they are still ok for short range.
 
Got my elk last season at 280yds with the 270 win 145 eldx. My shot placement wasnt awesome on the first, but the second did the trick. Ran about 20yds downhill and crashed. I find this load shoots best out of my sako 85. My Rem 7600 prefers the 130 gr accubonds. I've also shot my WT's last couple years in the 210-230yd range with the eldx, one shot each. So seems to work for me.
 
freddyfour said:
I think he ment factory 270 twists, as that is what the op is asking for. Not fast enough for heavy high speed bullets.
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Yeah, and I would agree that most 10-twist barrels won't properly stabilize the 150gr Accubond Long Range. I have a 10-twist BAR that loves heavy bullets though, Sako 156gr and Nosler 160gr shoot beautifully but are only as heavy as they are for caliber due to the semi-spitzer profile. I thought I might have a problem the 150gr AB-LR due to the length though but nope, mine shoots just outside MOA at 200 meter, close to 2900 fps at the muzzle so it should be within its optimal impact velocity window to expand fully and deeply and not fail out to quite a distance, certainly farther than I can shoot.
 
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