178 grain .30 ELD-X

[General RE LEE]

How do you like this for a hunting bullet whitetail for all ranges?

 

[elkaholic]

How do you like this for a hunting bullet whitetail for all ranges?

works very well in an '06

 

[Doc88]

works very well in an '06

I'll 2nd this.

 

[General RE LEE]

Any others? I just shot some dang tight groups with these loaded over 55 grains H4350 at 2725 FPS.

 

[.gacton]

Works great in a .308, also.

 

[.gacton]

I also run them in my .30-06 @2818 and they are awesome.

 

[ArcherRN]

I shoot it out of a Remington 5R Gen2 308. Handloaded of course but have also shot with factory ammo. Factory ammo group was under 3/4 inch, handloaded ammo at .5". I haven't shot a whitetail with it for expansion performance yet.

 

[nhhunter]

What speeds are you getting with rl 15?

 

[ArcherRN]

2519 fps with a variable of 11 fps over the 6 shots. It's my most accurate load for that powder/bullet combination. I shoot a Remington 5R Gen2 20 inch barrel.

 

[Andrew Massi]

It will bounce clean off most whitetails

 

[ArcherRN]

Yeah a little heavy for whitetail then the velocity is lower. I did take a whitetail last year with the Berger Classic Hunter 168 gr with good results, ran 30 yards and collapsed. That one was loaded with CFE 223 at 46.1 gr with average velocity of 2630 @ 70 degrees out of a 20 inch barrel.