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7mm STW
dum ? for a-max162gn and eld-x 162gn
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1255321" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>So far what I'm seeing with the ELD-x series is that their BC's are as accurate or better than anything else on the market.</p><p></p><p>I won't shoot the AMAX or any other "Target Bullet" at game. Varmints and predators you bet, but not something I'm going after to pack out and take home meat.</p><p></p><p>Sadly my neighbor this weekend learned a hard lesson. He and daughter are in the blind, nice bit 8pt comes by, daughter takes a perfect broadside shot at about 150yds.</p><p></p><p>She's shooting a .243 Barnex TTSX, 85gr if I heard right and hit the deer exactly as dad told her, high and just behind the shoulder.</p><p></p><p>Knocked the deer down and the next time the see him he's loping off a few hundred yards, hops the fence onto my place and disappears.</p><p></p><p>I went and helped track him for two hours until we ran out of blood and he just vanished.</p><p></p><p>I pointed out that with that bullet the ideal shot is through both shoulders or right at the point of the sternum, just high, if he's standing straight on looking at you.</p><p></p><p>That's a bullet designed for superior penetration and for the tips to fold back and sheer off ostensibly to slice and dice throughout the chest cavity. More often from what I've seen if the toughest thing they hit are ribs you have an animal that's going to run for some considerable distance before laying down and he may very well just rest up a bit and keep on going. </p><p></p><p>The way this deer was hit, it's quite conceivable that they caught him at an exhale and didn't even punch the lungs. I saw nothing like lung blood, just bright red muscle blood and not much of it.</p><p></p><p>He'd made a fairly large puddle the first place he laid down but by the time we'd tracked him 400yds, he just stopped bleeding altogether.</p><p></p><p>He will probably still be out there to be had next year, just a whole lot smarter and harder to get a shot on.</p><p></p><p>Different bullets have different design characteristics and when you don't use them as designed sometimes you won't like the results too well.</p><p></p><p>If they'd put it through both shoulders he probabl wouldn't have made it more than 10-20yds at most.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1255321, member: 30902"] So far what I'm seeing with the ELD-x series is that their BC's are as accurate or better than anything else on the market. I won't shoot the AMAX or any other "Target Bullet" at game. Varmints and predators you bet, but not something I'm going after to pack out and take home meat. Sadly my neighbor this weekend learned a hard lesson. He and daughter are in the blind, nice bit 8pt comes by, daughter takes a perfect broadside shot at about 150yds. She's shooting a .243 Barnex TTSX, 85gr if I heard right and hit the deer exactly as dad told her, high and just behind the shoulder. Knocked the deer down and the next time the see him he's loping off a few hundred yards, hops the fence onto my place and disappears. I went and helped track him for two hours until we ran out of blood and he just vanished. I pointed out that with that bullet the ideal shot is through both shoulders or right at the point of the sternum, just high, if he's standing straight on looking at you. That's a bullet designed for superior penetration and for the tips to fold back and sheer off ostensibly to slice and dice throughout the chest cavity. More often from what I've seen if the toughest thing they hit are ribs you have an animal that's going to run for some considerable distance before laying down and he may very well just rest up a bit and keep on going. The way this deer was hit, it's quite conceivable that they caught him at an exhale and didn't even punch the lungs. I saw nothing like lung blood, just bright red muscle blood and not much of it. He'd made a fairly large puddle the first place he laid down but by the time we'd tracked him 400yds, he just stopped bleeding altogether. He will probably still be out there to be had next year, just a whole lot smarter and harder to get a shot on. Different bullets have different design characteristics and when you don't use them as designed sometimes you won't like the results too well. If they'd put it through both shoulders he probabl wouldn't have made it more than 10-20yds at most. [/QUOTE]
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