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<blockquote data-quote="Raudy707" data-source="post: 2302000" data-attributes="member: 105681"><p>I shot a mule deer buck at 225 yards from my 308 with a 20 inch barrel. 168 ELD-M at 2660 fps. Buck was quite close to private land so I shot high shoulder and down he went where he stood. Never took a step. Strange thing is he was broadside facing up hill so the bullet should have continued on a linear path to the opposite rib cage, but it didn't. It went through the shoulder blade and broke 3 ribs with a baseball sized entry into the diaphragm. Caught some vertebrae disabling his 4-wheel drive and fragments hammered the top of the lungs. Dead right there. Upon skinning the buck strangely the bullet took a 90 degree hard turn to the right and was lodged in its opposite hip. No jacket. Just the lead. I can't complain with the results. Minimal bloodshot and buck was dead on the spot instantly, but that whole changed of direction can't help but leave me a little skeptical on animals larger than a mule deer buck. 250-260 lbs on the hoof I'm guessing. What would happen if it hit the humerus bone or the t section of the shoulder blade of an elk, big black bear or larger mule deer? Would it make it to the vitals or veer left or right and only wound an animal? As much as I like the high BC for cutting through the wind, I think I'm just gonna stick to the 151 Hammer Hunters for now on for elk and bear and save the Eld-m's for smaller deer and pigs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raudy707, post: 2302000, member: 105681"] I shot a mule deer buck at 225 yards from my 308 with a 20 inch barrel. 168 ELD-M at 2660 fps. Buck was quite close to private land so I shot high shoulder and down he went where he stood. Never took a step. Strange thing is he was broadside facing up hill so the bullet should have continued on a linear path to the opposite rib cage, but it didn't. It went through the shoulder blade and broke 3 ribs with a baseball sized entry into the diaphragm. Caught some vertebrae disabling his 4-wheel drive and fragments hammered the top of the lungs. Dead right there. Upon skinning the buck strangely the bullet took a 90 degree hard turn to the right and was lodged in its opposite hip. No jacket. Just the lead. I can't complain with the results. Minimal bloodshot and buck was dead on the spot instantly, but that whole changed of direction can't help but leave me a little skeptical on animals larger than a mule deer buck. 250-260 lbs on the hoof I'm guessing. What would happen if it hit the humerus bone or the t section of the shoulder blade of an elk, big black bear or larger mule deer? Would it make it to the vitals or veer left or right and only wound an animal? As much as I like the high BC for cutting through the wind, I think I'm just gonna stick to the 151 Hammer Hunters for now on for elk and bear and save the Eld-m's for smaller deer and pigs. [/QUOTE]
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