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I've been using the 80gr ELD-M out of my .223 as the 75gr doesn't shoot quite as well. 2810fps out of an 18 inch barrel (case full of ADI AR2208 aka Varget).

I've shot in the last 9 months: 2 red deer hinds, 1 red stag, 2 fallow bucks, 1 fallow doe, 2 large bull tahr, 2 wild pigs, 19 feral goats. Every animal has died satisfactorily. One of the tahr ran about 10 or 20 metres. More or less everything else has dropped on the spot.

Ranges of 150-270 metres on various deer, about 60 metres on the 2 tahr, 0 to 400 metres on the feral goats.

I haven't taken the .260 out of the safe since I got the .223. It just works and I like the light recoil and low powder charge (25 gr) which is great when powder is so hard to get at the moment.