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My experience with the Hornady 147 ELD-M on game. *A Lot of Shot Videos and photos*
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<blockquote data-quote="codyadams" data-source="post: 1509511" data-attributes="member: 87243"><p>I was surprised as well Rich....I really had high hopes. This bullet is just so extremly accurate in my rifle, and cuts wind excellently. But like I said, the biggest thing I found was just inconsistency in terminal performance. Out of 16 animals, two, maybe three were complete failures in my opinion, but the others, if seen just by themself, one could argue either way, the fact that an animal ran for 150 yards after having massive trauma to the lungs, then falling over dead, is not what many people would say is unacceptable. I can absolutely see how people can be happy with it. I am just blessed with the ability to have a LARGE testing field. Where I am mainly baseing my opinion here, is just in the last three years prior to this season we killed well over 20 animals, just like this, ranging from fawn pronghorn to bull elk, from 150 to 925 yards, with the same gun, just using the 140 VLD, and not ONE animal ran more than even 25 yards, even with a couple of them having marginal hits. And don't get me wrong, I'm not preaching to use the VLD as an end all bullet, I'm simply saying that I KNOW, from my first hand documented experience, that there are bullets that perform better and more consistently than these. </p><p></p><p>For next year....I will conduct this same test, and I will attempt to document as good or better, and hopefully have just as many tags to fill, but I will most likely be using the Berger 156 EOL. Hopefully Berger has it in production in time for me to work up a load and validate trajectory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="codyadams, post: 1509511, member: 87243"] I was surprised as well Rich....I really had high hopes. This bullet is just so extremly accurate in my rifle, and cuts wind excellently. But like I said, the biggest thing I found was just inconsistency in terminal performance. Out of 16 animals, two, maybe three were complete failures in my opinion, but the others, if seen just by themself, one could argue either way, the fact that an animal ran for 150 yards after having massive trauma to the lungs, then falling over dead, is not what many people would say is unacceptable. I can absolutely see how people can be happy with it. I am just blessed with the ability to have a LARGE testing field. Where I am mainly baseing my opinion here, is just in the last three years prior to this season we killed well over 20 animals, just like this, ranging from fawn pronghorn to bull elk, from 150 to 925 yards, with the same gun, just using the 140 VLD, and not ONE animal ran more than even 25 yards, even with a couple of them having marginal hits. And don't get me wrong, I'm not preaching to use the VLD as an end all bullet, I'm simply saying that I KNOW, from my first hand documented experience, that there are bullets that perform better and more consistently than these. For next year....I will conduct this same test, and I will attempt to document as good or better, and hopefully have just as many tags to fill, but I will most likely be using the Berger 156 EOL. Hopefully Berger has it in production in time for me to work up a load and validate trajectory. [/QUOTE]
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