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Hornady ELDX Performance
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<blockquote data-quote="BH107" data-source="post: 1766169" data-attributes="member: 19759"><p>2 thoughts here. </p><p></p><p>First it sounds like you should have gone and recovered your animal before going to the truck. Your assumption that the deer was dead led to its suffering, not the bullet. Same thing can happen with any bullet. </p><p></p><p>Second, shot placement is key with those types of bullets, and square shoulder shots are not ideal. I killed my bull elk at 400yds and a big mule deer at 525yds this year with 142gr SMK, putting my shots just behind the shoulder where the bullet went off like a grenade in the chest cavity. The elk fell right back into the bed it had just stood up from and the deer went 20'. Scrambled heart and lungs inside and no lost meat in the shoulders, exactly what I was expecting and why I chose that bullet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BH107, post: 1766169, member: 19759"] 2 thoughts here. First it sounds like you should have gone and recovered your animal before going to the truck. Your assumption that the deer was dead led to its suffering, not the bullet. Same thing can happen with any bullet. Second, shot placement is key with those types of bullets, and square shoulder shots are not ideal. I killed my bull elk at 400yds and a big mule deer at 525yds this year with 142gr SMK, putting my shots just behind the shoulder where the bullet went off like a grenade in the chest cavity. The elk fell right back into the bed it had just stood up from and the deer went 20’. Scrambled heart and lungs inside and no lost meat in the shoulders, exactly what I was expecting and why I chose that bullet. [/QUOTE]
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