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<blockquote data-quote="Hespco" data-source="post: 2245035" data-attributes="member: 109476"><p>My one experience with the 6.5 143 gr ELD-X was disastrous. A mature mule deer buck at about 80yds. Bullet caught the very back edge of the right shoulder blade from an extreme angle. The bullet exploded like a bomb. Completely bloodshot, lost that whole shoulder. Also lost all the flank meat under it & some of the meat in the lower neck. I hunt primarily for the meat. Never will use this bullet again for game. It's one thing to put this bullet thru the ribs, but quite another to put it thru a more resistant meaty area especially from an angle. The long slender nose makes this cup & core bullet very fragile. Understand this. As an elk hunter of many years there are a considerable amount of much more appropriate bullets available. In Particular one of the copper mono's. Barnes, Hammer, Badlands Precision, etc. These are bullets that penetrate well from extreme close range without the bombshell explosion of a C&C bullet.The mono's don't blood shot the meat any where near like a C&C bullet . As others have said you can eat right up to the hole.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hespco, post: 2245035, member: 109476"] My one experience with the 6.5 143 gr ELD-X was disastrous. A mature mule deer buck at about 80yds. Bullet caught the very back edge of the right shoulder blade from an extreme angle. The bullet exploded like a bomb. Completely bloodshot, lost that whole shoulder. Also lost all the flank meat under it & some of the meat in the lower neck. I hunt primarily for the meat. Never will use this bullet again for game. It's one thing to put this bullet thru the ribs, but quite another to put it thru a more resistant meaty area especially from an angle. The long slender nose makes this cup & core bullet very fragile. Understand this. As an elk hunter of many years there are a considerable amount of much more appropriate bullets available. In Particular one of the copper mono's. Barnes, Hammer, Badlands Precision, etc. These are bullets that penetrate well from extreme close range without the bombshell explosion of a C&C bullet.The mono's don't blood shot the meat any where near like a C&C bullet . As others have said you can eat right up to the hole. [/QUOTE]
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