Hunting with ELD Ms

[Smokinyotes]

I have zero experience with ELDM but have shot 1 moose, 1 black bear and 1 mule buck with the eldx. If you like small particles of bullet scattered through out your meat they work great.

 

[wolf300H&H]

Not to do with animal hunting but i just used the 123 gr eld m / 6.5 CM rifle, re sighting in 100 yards. 2500 fps muzzle.

Steel / wood back drop i built

4 shots into the small I beam maybe 3/8” thick steel and blasted through with like 4xs the diameter on impact side . Ouch .

Have not taken measurements

 

[PSE]

I have zero experience with ELDM but have shot 1 moose, 1 black bear and 1 mule buck with the eldx. If you like small particles of bullet scattered through out your meat they work great.

Yeah - I don't think the ELD series is going to be a huge bullet design success with Hornady. I have heard negative experiences on other U.S. outdoor chat sites concerning ELD bullet fragmentation at closer in (higher) velocities.

I liked the Hornady Interbond bullet well enough. I don't know why they didn't continue that line.

 

[blakeyboy]

Well - I haven't used FMJ bullets on game either but don't mind commenting on them either.

I'll comment on whatever I want - thank you very much. That's what this thread is for.

You can kill cows with point blank .22 lr 40 gr solids to the cns launched and impacting around 1200 fps. Bell showed us (1100 or so elephants) you can do same to elephants with .328 sd solids launching around 2300-2400 so close up likely impacting around 2200 and that will get through 1’ foot of elephant head to do same thing. But....try those bullets into pumping systems and see what happens.

Right tool for the job.

The internet is a blessing and a curse. For the 10% of good you have to wade through 90% of sh1t. And all of that is 100x more info than good ole ‘i heard’ word of mouth stuff in person.

Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. Internet remains undefeated. You cannot stop the eld-m train lol. That ship sailed years ago. Up to you to figure out what your personal desires are and choose accordingly. Personal choice remember. Do you like to be behind the curve or on time?

Choice to know is yours.

 

[blakeyboy]

Yeah - I don't think the ELD series is going to be a huge bullet design success with Hornady. I have heard negative experiences on other U.S. outdoor chat sites concerning ELD bullet fragmentation at closer in (higher) velocities.

I liked the Hornady Interbond bullet well enough. I don't know why they didn't continue that line.

There will be eld m and x flying off shelves for next 100 years. Go ahead and see for yourself why. Wanna eat shoulders or rear hams? Don’t shoot em there lol. You’re supposed to shoot the pumping systems. Wrap meat every time or play roulette with the runner bullets.

But make no mistake, when you hit the hard parts those bullets wreak havoc lol and break em down reliably to still walk up and wrap ‘some’ meat, every time.

 

[270WSMXBolt]

This just happened to be on my feed.

 

[DinduNuffin]

How do you get meat damage when you hit in the lungs and heart?

 

[Desjard]

ELDX don’t hold together either. Shot a mule buck at 760 yards with my 300wm with 200gr eldx and even at that range the bullet disintegrated. Same gun same bullet last year shot a large black bear in the spine. Same deal the bullet didn’t go all the way through and was in pieces. Shot a little bull moose with a 145gr eldx out of my 270wsm. Moose was quarting away and shot it behind the shoulder. It blew up on the ribs and had shrapnel everywhere in the chest cavity.

For big game I’m only using Swift a frames from now on.

All animals died, the bullets did their jobs.

 

[blakeyboy]

This just happened to be on my feed.

I’m having dejavu, i can’t get past about 20 seconds of this guy in a Ben stiller kind of way. But recollection he hit a muley doe around 560 in not best spot on animal and thought he lost it. Yet it slowed it down enough he got a second chance either later in day or next day? Ringing a bell? I couldn’t suffer the video and his voice again.

So he got his animal despite his p1ss poor placement. We all know nothing short of a bazooka can save you from poor placement.

I probably posted in his comments that had he been using a tougher bullet that did less internal work he probably wouldn’t have done enough damage to get his 2nd chance. Remember his shot placement was bad lol, I pointed out the eldm will give you more chance to save the day for your poor shooting than anything else.

Not sure where his logic went but right out the window sounds about right. At that distance the only thing that saved him was that he was shooting an eldm. An x likely do same. If you can tell difference when knife comes out then I’ve got some cheap ocean front property for sale in Arizona for ya.

Now run an accubond or fusion or copper and see if he ever saw that doe again. Not a chance. This guy is straight click bait clown .

Anyway...he got lucky and he should have praised the eldm that actually saved him rather than just make another YouTube for clicks.

 

[blakeyboy]

All animals died, the bullets did their jobs.

Yup, funny how people interpret success. They perform reliably and similar over a wide range of impact velocities. Now do it again with a lesser bullet lol, see if you can even hit a muley with a low bc fusion or accubond at 760 never mind drt it like the old eld does.

 

[blakeyboy]

Not to do with animal hunting but i just used the 123 gr eld m / 6.5 CM rifle, re sighting in 100 yards. 2500 fps muzzle.

Steel / wood back drop i built

4 shots into the small I beam maybe 3/8” thick steel and blasted through with like 4xs the diameter on impact side . Ouch .

Have not taken measurements

Yeah I thought ordering some 1/4” ar500 plates from Amazon be ok for 6.5 Grendel running 123 eldm at only 2386 fps and at 200 yards I was blowing through the plates I concluded I got mild steel instead of ar500. The idea being light weight for collecting drop data and zeroing and humping gongs off into the distance. Don’t get burned by Amazon too often but when I do I remember. On critters it doesn’t seem to matter much as I get 20” through middles and less if I catch big bone regardless of distance. Including 420 yard quartering whitetail maybe 1700 fps impact and exited after 15” taking ribs on way out and brisket on way in with drt with such a wimpy little eldm lol

‘You can’t hunt with match bullets’

Haha, if only the bullets knew they were ‘match’, maybe they should learn to read the box they come in

 

[MTM]

Never shot anything with match bullets, never shot a game animal with less than a .270 so not putting down others choices. Guess I use too much gun but most are DRT, Bonded and monos have worked very well for me. Sorry but I like 4000 ft/lbs for Moose and Elk. And yes I can shoot my guns accurately. obviously old school. Just don’t get the smallest possible gun thing.

 

[Sask_Hunter]

335 yards 147eld-m from a 6.5cm bullet broke the heavy bone in the shoulder going in split the heart and tore up the inside before getting caught on the hide going out The buck kicked and took 3 steps before dying

286 yards 147eld-m from a 6.5cm. Single shot facing straight on. Split the heat and turned the insides to goo. Bullet made it behind the diaphragm but never recover.