308 168 ELD-Ms on Game

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I’ve had great luck with the 140 and 147 grain ELD-MS on deer. Anyone got experience with the 168 grain ELD-M on deer sized game? I have a great load worked up for my 308.

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The Amax version did good on hogs for many years before it became the ELDM. I'm told the only difference is the tips. Supposedly the old tips melted in flight? Yeah, I found those little red tips a few times in my autopsies. I think Hornady just needed new marketing...
 

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Here ya go Gen Lee:



 

joushz

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I had pictures on my phone of the mess it made of a doe I shot last year with factory hornady match superformance match ammo. It was around 40 yards but it put a nice sized hole where it exited.
 

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I used 225 grain eldms in my 300 win mag on 3 mule deer and one bull elk last year. All 1 shot kills. I was really impressed with bullet overall. 2800 fps at the muzzle.

I'm sure the 168s would work well out of a 308. The only complaints with the lethality of these bullets that I've heard have been when they are pushed 3000+ fps. It seems like they tend to "grenade" if the impact velocity is crazy high.
 

clperry

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I use them exclusively in my 308. Have killed a dozen or more white tails with it. They work great.


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The Amax version did good on hogs for many years before it became the ELDM. I'm told the only difference is the tips. Supposedly the old tips melted in flight? Yeah, I found those little red tips a few times in my autopsies. I think Hornady just needed new marketing...
Agree, I feel like Hornady are like some big pharma, spend more money on marketing than R&D. To answer the original question, I've a few deer with 168ELD-M and works well but your load velocity seems to be 2328fps? Seems slow?
 
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Agree, I feel like Hornady are like some big pharma, spend more money on marketing than R&D. To answer the original question, I've a few deer with 168ELD-M and works well but your load velocity seems to be 2328fps? Seems slow?

That is the supposed velocity at the target at 100 yards but often not accurate. Magnetospeed 2596 at muzzle.
 
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Shot the 168 eld-m out of my Barrett Fieldcraft 308 18” and I was really impressed with the performance and they were very accurate .5 moa.
 

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The Amax version did good on hogs for many years before it became the ELDM. I'm told the only difference is the tips. Supposedly the old tips melted in flight? Yeah, I found those little red tips a few times in my autopsies. I think Hornady just needed new marketing...
100%..."melting tips" are a non factor and when Hornady came out with their claim of their tip being the hardest to melt there were already tipped bullets with Higher melting points. Hornady markets very well and somehow guys don't see they are just cup and core bullets...the same that have been around for decades.
 
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