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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 1513273" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>And the 180 eld-m may be a completely different story, I have no idea, I judge one bullet at a time, not an entire line based on one sample. My experience is only with the 147 eld-m. And from everything I saw, on paper, for the most part seems great. When they exited, exits were from 1"-2.5" depending on how much bone they hit, recovered bullets were mushroomed well and retained around 50% or a touch more, no jacket core separations, but every year I get a pretty big sample, as I stated, around 15-25 animals with just my rifle, as most of my family uses mine. But when I look at the reaction from the animals, there is a VAST difference between the eld-m vs the VLD. Animals hit with the eld-m ran nearly every single time they were hit, unless it was a cns hit. With the 140 Bergers, I had many animals that were bang-flops with hits behind the shoulder just above the heart, no where near a spinal hit, and many others that started to run, but had so much shock that they didn't make it much farther than a few steps. One of the pronghorn hit with the 147 at 150 yards with a perfect shoulder hit ran nearly 200 yards, hosing blood, lungs pouring out the exit, but it still ran. I just don't think the eld-m delivers as much shock as the vld.</p><p></p><p>I saw three bullet failures with the eld-m. Two were the pronghorn that they did not expand. The third was on a cow elk with a good hit that ran around half a mile. I have photos and videos of almost every kill of 16, here is the link to my thread:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/my-experience-with-the-hornady-147-eld-m-on-game-a-lot-of-shot-videos-and-photos.208832/" target="_blank">https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/my-experience-with-the-hornady-147-eld-m-on-game-a-lot-of-shot-videos-and-photos.208832/</a></p><p></p><p>Now. Did it kill the animals? Absolutely. It depends on your intents though. If your shooting whitetails and don't have to worry about them running 100 yards onto someone else's property, and plan on keeping your impact speed over 2000 fps, then they will do the trick. But, other bullets will kill them faster, but Bergers do more shock on the animal and tend to have a little more blood shot, and are more expensive. Just depends on what you want.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 1513273, member: 87243"] And the 180 eld-m may be a completely different story, I have no idea, I judge one bullet at a time, not an entire line based on one sample. My experience is only with the 147 eld-m. And from everything I saw, on paper, for the most part seems great. When they exited, exits were from 1"-2.5" depending on how much bone they hit, recovered bullets were mushroomed well and retained around 50% or a touch more, no jacket core separations, but every year I get a pretty big sample, as I stated, around 15-25 animals with just my rifle, as most of my family uses mine. But when I look at the reaction from the animals, there is a VAST difference between the eld-m vs the VLD. Animals hit with the eld-m ran nearly every single time they were hit, unless it was a cns hit. With the 140 Bergers, I had many animals that were bang-flops with hits behind the shoulder just above the heart, no where near a spinal hit, and many others that started to run, but had so much shock that they didn't make it much farther than a few steps. One of the pronghorn hit with the 147 at 150 yards with a perfect shoulder hit ran nearly 200 yards, hosing blood, lungs pouring out the exit, but it still ran. I just don't think the eld-m delivers as much shock as the vld. I saw three bullet failures with the eld-m. Two were the pronghorn that they did not expand. The third was on a cow elk with a good hit that ran around half a mile. I have photos and videos of almost every kill of 16, here is the link to my thread: [URL]https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/my-experience-with-the-hornady-147-eld-m-on-game-a-lot-of-shot-videos-and-photos.208832/[/URL] Now. Did it kill the animals? Absolutely. It depends on your intents though. If your shooting whitetails and don't have to worry about them running 100 yards onto someone else's property, and plan on keeping your impact speed over 2000 fps, then they will do the trick. But, other bullets will kill them faster, but Bergers do more shock on the animal and tend to have a little more blood shot, and are more expensive. Just depends on what you want. [/QUOTE]
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