Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Elk Hunting Hornady 7mm 162 grain eldx

Maybe 178?

I think he is talking about the 180gr SST.. We kind of went off on a tangent talking about the SST's.

When I can’t afford better, I’ll go with some Hornady… lol 🤣🤣🤣

I used to pile on with that myself. Can’t blame you. I tried the 212 ELDs on elk from the 06 and was mighty impressed.

Their Interbonds are some of the best bonded bullets out there but I don’t think they get the press their sleeker stuff does.

Copy.

I suck at pronouns.




P

Ha ha.. That's alright. Good news is I found a nice stock pile of 162 ELDX at a LGS here. $39/box.. My 2 new 7mm rem mag rifles like them and shoot the same load very well.

Hey pharm, have you ever used any of these?:


They had a good sale on them at Coastal about 2 years ago. Less than $30/box.. Probably discontinued or something now? They are 140gr Tipped trophy bonded bullets. I figured they would work very well in the 7mm08..

We have used them a bit. You probably should just send those to me. You’d hate how they work

I’ve killed with 120 NBT, 140 PT, 140 AB, 140 VLD Hunting, and 150 eldx. Loaded some 120 TTSX but never hunted with them. 7mm-08.

7mm Rem Mag I’ve killed with 160 PT, 160 AB, and 162 eldx. Loaded some 180 VLD Hunting for my brother, he killed a bull with them.

Those bullets look wicked.

Ha ha.. I knew I should have bought more!!! I know the old trophy bonded bearclaws were animals.

Thanks pharm. I just figured since you probably have a coastal near where you live, maybe you bought some of these as well. Yes, they do look pretty wicked. Nickle plated, I believe, with a nice orange polymer tip. I loaded some up to try out in my 7mm rem mag. We'll see how they do...

They had them as pull downs from Rocky Mountain Reloading in .277 130’s. Now I wished I’d bought a 1000. Awesome hunting bullet. Very similar to a Bitterroot in my experience.

That says quite a bit. Thanks Scotty.

Pharm, mind sharing your load buddy? I just bought 3 more boxes of the 162 ELDX today for $105.xx. They are cheap enough that I will use them for practice and hunting. My load consists of IMR7828, but I don't want to use too much of that because that is what I also use in my 300WBY.

Bet he is using that magic RL26...

Nice thing about the 7 Rem is everything from 4350 up to RL33 works pretty stinkin well.

Never had a bit of drama getting 3000+ from a 160 in a 7 Rem or 2900+ from a 175/180.

Yeah, I was out this morning. Running IMR7828 and the same load in both of my new to me 7mm rem mags:


That's how the cheaper one shoots... I just put the scope on, so it was not sighted in..

Seems like you have it sorted out decent.

I’m not a fan of any of the eldx’s, I’ve shot both white tail deer and elk and upon impact they blew up.The 175’s and the 162’s reacted the same, the 175’s had a baseball size hole”s on the entrance.But I will say dead is dead. All of the game was shot with a 28 Nosler.

Sorry, just saw this.

Yep, Reloader 26. 69.0 grains, WLRM. Really close to 3k. Very pleased with the performance on elk. I haven’t shot anything farther than 375 yards or closer than 150 yards yet. My brother killed a Mulie buck with his 7mm Rem Mag using the same load, maybe 75 yards, DRT and normal bloodshot.

This surprises me. Two years ago my party killed 4 Mulie bucks, all with the 7mm-08 using 150 eldx. Nothing needed a second shot. That same year I shot a cow elk at 375 yards, 7mm Rem Mag, 162 eldx, using the above load.



Note the shot placement.

The bullet center punched the leg bone just below the joint, blew through a rib, transversed both lungs, nicked the other rib, then lodged under the hide on the off side. Held together very well.




It’s the first eldx we’ve caught.


Edit to ask, what’s the muzzle velocity of the 28 Nosler, and how fast do you suppose the bullets were going at impact?





P

Looks like good performance to me. Thanks for the load data too.