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Picked up a couple boxes of this stuff at Sportsman's the other day, .270 Win 145gr ELD-X. I'm not familiar with this bullet. Supposedly quite accurate, anyone have real world experience with it on game?

yep. The eldx works very good. Taken a lot of animals with it. Typical shoots very well out of most rifles

I personally would not take a hard quartering away shot on an elk with it but a broad side every day. Great round for deer sized game

Maybe for squirrels and sich.

My hunting party uses the eldx extensively. 7mm Rem Mag 162 grain and 7mm-08 150 grain. Elk, deer, antelope. Great performance.

My tests with a 6.5 Creed, indicate exactly that Jim....at least with a fairly high bullet impact velocity! memtb

What's wrong with a 130 core-loc.

Is this there all copper bullet or is that the GMX?

No, tipped cup&core

Thank you sir

Pretty explosive if impact is fairly fast. I would avoid shoulder shots. Edk

I killed a big mature 6x6 bull with a shoulder shot at about 150 yards, 162 eldx at 3000 fps mv from a 7mm Rem Mag, bullet performed admirably.

What was your experience?



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Elk and whitetail with 143x from 6.5 prc. Explosive without a shoulder hit. Edk

6.5 PRC is really humming along.

They work just fine, but they're 'old school'.

Hadn't got a classy name.

Federal TBT is a better bullet

ELD-X is just a sleeker (higher BC) version of the SST.
Cup and core construction, with an Interlock ring that’s supposed to keep the jacket locked to the core. If the impact velocity is high enough to mushroom the bullet beyond the interlock ring, the core separates. I’ve had good luck with the ELD-X and SST at less than 2500 fps impact velocity. Nice mushrooms, if you happen to recover the bullet and don’t blow it up by hitting any major bones. Above 2700 fps, I usually find the jacket against the offside hide. Core is no where to be found, but the animal is still dead.

Great prices for what you get. High BC and good accuracy. For < 500 yard shots, I’m not sure if it matters.

I’ve loaded a lot of .264 143 and .277 145 ELD 2nds from MidwayUSA. RL26 gives 2850 in 6.5 Creed/143gr and 3100 in 270 Win/145gr. 24” barrels. For shorter range hunting (sub 200 yds) I load at 2700 and 2900 fps, respectively, using H4350.

If you can find Hornady American Whitetail 130gr factory for 270 Win, get some. Awesome accuracy and deadly on deer/hogs. Plus cheaper than the Precision Hunter with ELD-X. IMO even better than Core-Lokt.

Maybe not a classy name, but definitely a classy description. “Deadliest mushroom in the woods.”

When Remington went bankrupt and the Arkansas plant shut down, Whitetail deer everywhere were relieved. Now that Vista Outdoors brought them back from bankruptcy, I’m starting to see hunting ammo on the shelf over last last month or so.

Would short range shots be ill-advised then? Claimed MV is 2970fps.

I bought it because it was available, and fairly priced ($45). I'm new to the cartridge as well as the bullet.

Good deer bullet

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It will still work. Don’t over think it, especially if it shoots good groups in your gun. Aim for the boiler room and pull the trigger.

I just wouldn’t shoot an elk in the shoulder with it at close range...but then again I wouldn’t do that with any cup and core bullet.

It’s a great all around 270 Win choice for whitetail, pronghorn, and I dare say elk...especially when you might need to stretch it out beyond 300 yds. Up close there are just cheaper options, but nothing wrong with the ELD-X as long as you don’t have expectations the interlock feature will always result in a perfectly intact mushroom.