Can you give more info. Range and caliber.The ELDM actually is better on elk for a shoulder shot
Can you give more info. Range and caliber.The ELDM actually is better on elk for a shoulder shot
I am looking forward to move from berger 30 215 Hybrid to hornady ELDM 225g .... because it has a better BC..
In both 300 win and 300 wby mag
And close ranges with Barnes 168g ttsx..
Could you help me to find out if this is a good decision??
Thanks
On a couple KY deer at closer ranges not so much. I shot a doe at 100 yards with a double lung hit and she ran over 100 yards with no blood trail and had minimal damage to the opposite side lung. I shot a nice buck who field dressed at 200 lbs. at 35 yards right behind the shoulder and that bullet hardly touched that opposite side lung but completely destroyed the other. He ran about 50 yards and piled up. Neither of the deer had any blood trail.
I would say that that bullet worked fine. It made it through both shoulders, punched both lungs I guess and the bull did not move. That the core stayed in the jacket till it stoped at the off side hide sounds good to me and my experience with partitions is they dump the front half of their mass right away, so with the same MV & caliber not sure a partition would have done any different. In my limited elk hunting experience (4 bulls) the three that went down to Sierra GK's where just as dead as the one shot with Nos Partition. BTW the bull shot with partition at 250 yds was angling away where the bullet took him in the last rib went forward shattering his heart and out the front of his chest making a **** big hole and while he didn't move a follow up shot or two finally put him down.A bull elk quartering at around 400yds was shot high through both shoulders(not where I was aiming), and while he didn't move, he required a head shot. The ELDX was found under the hide of the opposite shoulder and it had shed almost 100gr, and the lead core fell out of the jacket remnant as I was cleaning it up.