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<blockquote data-quote="19elkhunter51" data-source="post: 1760677" data-attributes="member: 14169"><p>Okay, here is my two cents worth of my very biased opinion. I have been hunting elk for over thirty years, not that it makes me an expert. I started with 180 grain SGK and was never unhappy with the results until I did the necropsy on the elk. Not a complete exam, just bullet placement and damage. More than ninety per cent of the time I would find an empty cup with no lead under or almost under the off side of the shot. Where did the lead go? It was distributed throughout the body of the dead elk. For many years I never gave that lead a thought and severely criticized anyone that said it was dangerous. I am not sure how much of a problem it is but at my age I need all the help I can get and I believe that ingesting ANY lead can't be good for my or anyone else's health. </p><p>Used a 300 WM, 300 RUM before building my 338 Edge. Starting about twenty years ago, I became a believer in the two drain hole theory. Tracking an animal not well hit would and was easier if it is losing copious amounts of heart oil. Started using Barnes bullets with great success. When I first started loading the Barnes X bullet I was OK with less than stellar accuracy. I didn't get the accuracy of the Sierra Gameking but it was completely accurate compared to the other bullet that I tried to use, Nosler Parition. Because of my early failures trying to make the Nosler shoot, I have no use for the Nosler bullet. In the meantime Barnes came with the TTSX. I now shoot the 280 grain LRX bullet in my 338 Edge at around 2800-2900 fps using H 1000. This load has produced a .375 group at 100 yards on a consistent basis. I shoot 175 grain LRX in my thirty caliber rifles, 30-06, 300 WM and 300 RUM when I hunt elk. The last six or seven elk that I have shot with the 338 Edge have all been DRT with a through and through wound channel. I have not recovered a 338 bullet from any of the elk I shot with that cartridge. </p><p>I do not believe I lose any more or less meat using that bullet than when I was using my 30-06. What I am sure of is that if I do my part I don't worry about what is going to happen at the terminal end of the bullets flight. As I add years to my life I have less ability to chase elk that don't drop in their tracks. I won't all of my shots have resulted in my hunting life have resulted in no tracking but my more recent hunting has been shoot, bang, flop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="19elkhunter51, post: 1760677, member: 14169"] Okay, here is my two cents worth of my very biased opinion. I have been hunting elk for over thirty years, not that it makes me an expert. I started with 180 grain SGK and was never unhappy with the results until I did the necropsy on the elk. Not a complete exam, just bullet placement and damage. More than ninety per cent of the time I would find an empty cup with no lead under or almost under the off side of the shot. Where did the lead go? It was distributed throughout the body of the dead elk. For many years I never gave that lead a thought and severely criticized anyone that said it was dangerous. I am not sure how much of a problem it is but at my age I need all the help I can get and I believe that ingesting ANY lead can't be good for my or anyone else's health. Used a 300 WM, 300 RUM before building my 338 Edge. Starting about twenty years ago, I became a believer in the two drain hole theory. Tracking an animal not well hit would and was easier if it is losing copious amounts of heart oil. Started using Barnes bullets with great success. When I first started loading the Barnes X bullet I was OK with less than stellar accuracy. I didn't get the accuracy of the Sierra Gameking but it was completely accurate compared to the other bullet that I tried to use, Nosler Parition. Because of my early failures trying to make the Nosler shoot, I have no use for the Nosler bullet. In the meantime Barnes came with the TTSX. I now shoot the 280 grain LRX bullet in my 338 Edge at around 2800-2900 fps using H 1000. This load has produced a .375 group at 100 yards on a consistent basis. I shoot 175 grain LRX in my thirty caliber rifles, 30-06, 300 WM and 300 RUM when I hunt elk. The last six or seven elk that I have shot with the 338 Edge have all been DRT with a through and through wound channel. I have not recovered a 338 bullet from any of the elk I shot with that cartridge. I do not believe I lose any more or less meat using that bullet than when I was using my 30-06. What I am sure of is that if I do my part I don't worry about what is going to happen at the terminal end of the bullets flight. As I add years to my life I have less ability to chase elk that don't drop in their tracks. I won't all of my shots have resulted in my hunting life have resulted in no tracking but my more recent hunting has been shoot, bang, flop. [/QUOTE]
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