Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Long Range Hunting Hornady ELD-X Reports?

Any one have any information on performance on these new bullets? If they shoot in my rifle, Ill be running them in my 28 Nosler for the year. Ill hunt Coues deer with them, and have my buddy shoot his cow elk (hopefully) with my rifle.

Casey,

LRH has a thread dedicated to these bullets. It is over 100 pages long. There has to be something in it you can use:

http://www.longrangehunting.com/forums/f19/hornady-eld-x-official-thread-161172/

I've sparatically read the thread, with out seeing the information I'm after.

They should work well at long range, but at that velocity, the splat factor will be an issue at moderate range. I would worry about penetration on a cow elk. These are basically a interlock with a sleek profile and a tip that will make them expand fast. If you shoot an elk off the shoulder, it should be OK.

I too have thumbed through the thread and found little info. Just another forum with members engaged in pissing matches.

There was a thread on the Nosler site where a fellow from memory had spectactular expansion and shallow penetration shooting them into water filled jugs.

IIRC it was a heavy 30 cal ELDX launched well above 3000fps.

Here it is...

http://forum.nosler.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=32851

Looks like it held together a lot better at around 2700fps which would be expected.

I haven't shot the ELD bullets so shoot me down for speculating, but all I've heard about them (the X version anyway) makes me think they are just a revamp of the SST.

I HAVE shot LOTS of the SST in 270 Win, 308 Win, 30-06 and 338 WM, and in my experience on lots and lots of pigs and goats and the odd deer, they are very good killers IF you keep impact speeds below 2800fps.

The more impact velocity drops below that, the better they work.

I will gladly give the ELDXs a run but only in heavy for calibre weights.


Again, sorry to speculate but I suspect my instinct serves me well....

I called Hornady and was told to keep impact velocity at or below 2,500 feet per second.

And at those speeds the SST and Amax are Specials.

I'll be hunting with the 143grin ELD-X next week. I'll be Axis hunting and most mature bucks weigh 220-245 on the hoof so I won't be able speak to penetration on an Elk size animal. I expect a shot no longer than 300yards but we will see!

OBTW my loads are averaging 2780fps.

Ok so what LR bullet is good for impact velocities above 3000 ft/sec.

Barnes LRX

I called the Hornady Tech line last week about the 212 eld-x from my 300WM. The tech advised that for impact velocities to 3k one should expect 24-26" of penetration in ballistic gel with 65-70% retained weight.

Hornady published tests with the 200 gr eld-x vs other LR bullets and got similar results.

That's a straight line of bullchit. 178 and 212gr bullets at 3100fps will go vmax on deer, sheep, hogs.

Adam

When I called Hornady they told me impact velocity needs to be below 2,500 feet per second.

The 162's shoot great in my heavy 7 and to the same POI as the 162 Amax at 100 yards. I'm also extremely interested in the terminal reports as they start to come in this fall. I'll be using them for deer and spike elk (as my LR bullet).

Casey, what about an Accubond LR or Scirocco?

No thanks in the ABLR, they're no bueno. I think the heaviest scirocco is 150 in 284 isn't it?

Casey
What about some bergers in 195gr?