Some guys were having real good luck with the Horandy 147gr ELDM. Wonder if those guys can expound on the subject? beretzs was one of them, if I remember correctly. That bullet has been pretty impressive to me, at shooting out to 1,000 yards. Not that I'd shoot a deer out that far, but I'd have no qualms putting one in the boiler room at 600 yards.. There's enough weight and mass there, that it should even work well up close too.
Some guys were having real good luck with the Horandy 147gr ELDM. Wonder if those guys can expound on the subject? beretzs was one of them, if I remember correctly. That bullet has been pretty impressive to me, at shooting out to 1,000 yards. Not that I'd shoot a deer out that far, but I'd have no qualms putting one in the boiler room at 600 yards.. There's enough weight and mass there, that it should even work well up close too.
We’ve killed a bunch of whitetail with the 147gr ELDM bullets, though Hornady’s factory TAP ammunition. This is a duty round for our department’s precision rifles. Once a year for for about 10 years we’ve done a team hunt where we test our duty rounds, testing for terminal ballistics. We’ve used the Federal Gold Medal Match 308 win. 168gr MK, the Hornady TAP 168gr ELDM and now for the past 5 years we’ve used the 6.5 Creedmoor loaded with the 147 ELDM bullets. The hunt is more of a cull hunt where we average 7 deer a year. Each shooter is given a particular point on the body to aim at such as high shoulder, middle shoulder, heart, lung, neck, etc. Using the .308 win. Federal GMM 168gr. Sierra Matchkings we lost several animals. Although the Federal 168gr. GMM round is extremely accurate its terminal ballistics are not good, living up to the old adage that match bullets aren’t good for hunting. Many years ago I hunted with the Hornady A-Max bullets which always worked great, so I had faith the Hornady ELDM’s would closely mimic the A-MAX. Once we switched to the Hornady TAP in either .308 or the 6.5 creedmoor, we haven’t lost an animal yet. Many of the animals have gone down directly but some have run, few have gone farther than just a few yards. My only complaint with the 147 ELDM’s have been through the TAP they’re not moving as fast as I think they should or could. Sometimes the bullets didn’t completely pass through but when they didn’t we would normally find a well uniformed opened up bullet in the offside hide. Internal damage was always pretty devastating and if the shoulders were hit the meat would be bloodshot. Most of these shots were taken at 100 to 300 yards on South Texas whitetail.
