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Hornady 6.5C 143 ELD-X performance issues
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<blockquote data-quote="Tex_Hunter" data-source="post: 2049531" data-attributes="member: 31749"><p>Sounds like you are much more confident and proficient shooting with your Grendel than you are with your Savage. Based on the information provided and my own personal experience I am left thinking it was one of two things:</p><p></p><p>1) shooter error</p><p></p><p>2) bad lot of ammo escaped QC, maybe call Hornady with the Lot# information and see if they had issues reported on that lot?</p><p></p><p>I've killed close to a dozen deer and two VERY large feral sows with the 6.5 Creedmoor and 143gr ELD-X out of three different rifles using handloads and factory Precision Hunter box ammo from multiple different lots and manufacturing dates as far back as 2015. The only animal that has not died by this combo was an outright clean miss (verified by friend who was spotting). Shots have been at ranges from 150yds out to around 465yds some have been ideal shot placement, some have been terrible (ie. gut shot, yes I'll own it), all have died within 50yds of where they were standing and all except for one have been complete pass throughs with the typical massive internal trauma you would expect from a plastic tipped non-bonded hunting bullet. The only recovered bullet was on the offside shoulder of a 250lbs+ feral sow that I hit square on the near side shoulder, that shot broke the near side shoulder, ribs on both sides, and carved out a decent chunk of spine (hit it a little high) and broke the offside shoulder. The core and other smaller fragments created a ragged exit wound and the base/jacket was literally sticking out of the hole in the hide.</p><p></p><p>Shooting from field improvised positions is a different story, no matter how good you can hit pieces of paper. If you had recovered all of those deer and all of them had ice-pick wounds or something else indicative of a bad bullet then we'd be having a different conversation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tex_Hunter, post: 2049531, member: 31749"] Sounds like you are much more confident and proficient shooting with your Grendel than you are with your Savage. Based on the information provided and my own personal experience I am left thinking it was one of two things: 1) shooter error 2) bad lot of ammo escaped QC, maybe call Hornady with the Lot# information and see if they had issues reported on that lot? I've killed close to a dozen deer and two VERY large feral sows with the 6.5 Creedmoor and 143gr ELD-X out of three different rifles using handloads and factory Precision Hunter box ammo from multiple different lots and manufacturing dates as far back as 2015. The only animal that has not died by this combo was an outright clean miss (verified by friend who was spotting). Shots have been at ranges from 150yds out to around 465yds some have been ideal shot placement, some have been terrible (ie. gut shot, yes I'll own it), all have died within 50yds of where they were standing and all except for one have been complete pass throughs with the typical massive internal trauma you would expect from a plastic tipped non-bonded hunting bullet. The only recovered bullet was on the offside shoulder of a 250lbs+ feral sow that I hit square on the near side shoulder, that shot broke the near side shoulder, ribs on both sides, and carved out a decent chunk of spine (hit it a little high) and broke the offside shoulder. The core and other smaller fragments created a ragged exit wound and the base/jacket was literally sticking out of the hole in the hide. Shooting from field improvised positions is a different story, no matter how good you can hit pieces of paper. If you had recovered all of those deer and all of them had ice-pick wounds or something else indicative of a bad bullet then we'd be having a different conversation. [/QUOTE]
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