6mm /.243 hunting success on Big Game

[Live_weighT34]

That guy is a spike and a half! Nice bull. Was that on a spike only tag?

Thank you sir! Yeah I buy the multi season spike tag every year and usually kill one every 2nd or 3rd year

 

[Live_weighT34]

Wow that’s crazy long shots! Nice work

Thanks! It was a poke for sure, I usually archery and muzzleloader hunt but I’ve shot another spike and several cows with a rifle but they have all been inside of 500 so when I lined up for my first shot on this one I was just telling myself “aim small, miss small”

 

[The Guide]

Showing out of stock at that link for me.

Powder Valley and others are showing them in stock now at a better price than Sierra had them. AmmoSeek was showing 0 listing's this morning and there are 31 now.

Never mind, showing SMK not TMK.

Jay

 

[BLJ]

I’d like to find some to try in my 6 ARC.

 

[The Guide]

I’d like to find some to try in my 6 ARC.

Thatvwas my plan also. Sad I missed them.

Jay

 

[Marshfly]

I was able to get three kills with my Howa Mini 6ARC this weekend on antelope. Bullet is a factory loaded 108 ELD-M. Velocity based on dope should be about 2550 at the muzzle. Impact velocity should be in the 2400-2100 range. We had kills from 125 - 325 yards. All three were at least one lung and liver with at least one double lung. I expected at least a single bang flop but all three ran about 200 yards before expiring. Was kind of surprised at that.

I did not do full necropsies but this is the entry and exit from the 325 yard shot. This is the only wound pics I have as I thought the first two might have been a fluke. This buck ran about 200 yards before getting woozy and falling over. Is this what people are seeing from 6mm ELD-Ms?

I definitely would not use this on an elk after this if this performance is normal.

Skinned pic is the entrance and exit is with skin on.

 

[Duh]

I was able to get three kills with my Howa Mini 6ARC this weekend on antelope. Bullet is a factory loaded 108 ELD-M. Velocity based on dope should be about 2550 at the muzzle. Impact velocity should be in the 2400-2100 range. We had kills from 125 - 325 yards. All three were at least one lung and liver with at least one double lung. I expected at least a single bang flop but all three ran about 200 yards before expiring. Was kind of surprised at that.

I did not do full necropsies but this is the entry and exit from the 325 yard shot. This is the only wound pics I have as I thought the first two might have been a fluke. This buck ran about 200 yards before getting woozy and falling over. Is this what people are seeing from 6mm ELD-Ms?

I definitely would not use this on an elk after this if this performance is normal.

Skinned pic is the entrance and exit is with skin on.
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Yeah animals tend to run a bit when hit in the lungs and liver. I’d never expect a bang flop or Drt with a lung/liver shot.

 

[Marshfly]

Yeah animals tend to run a bit when hit in the lungs and liver. I’d never expect a bang flop or Drt with a lung/liver shot.

These are my first animals with ELDMs. I guess I just expected more from the stories/pics and from what I saw with a 6.5mm ELDX last year on lung shots. LOL. But they did the job. Going to kill some more stuff with them this weekend.

 

[Duh]

These are my first animals with ELDMs. I guess I just expected more from the stories/pics and from what I saw with a 6.5mm ELDX last year on lung shots. LOL. But they did the job. Going to kill some more stuff with them this weekend.

Gotcha and good luck.

 

[Formidilosus]

I was able to get three kills with my Howa Mini 6ARC this weekend on antelope. Bullet is a factory loaded 108 ELD-M. Velocity based on dope should be about 2550 at the muzzle. Impact velocity should be in the 2400-2100 range. We had kills from 125 - 325 yards. All three were at least one lung and liver with at least one double lung. I expected at least a single bang flop but all three ran about 200 yards before expiring. Was kind of surprised at that.

I did not do full necropsies but this is the entry and exit from the 325 yard shot. This is the only wound pics I have as I thought the first two might have been a fluke. This buck ran about 200 yards before getting woozy and falling over. Is this what people are seeing from 6mm ELD-Ms?

I definitely would not use this on an elk after this if this performance is normal.

Skinned pic is the entrance and exit is with skin on.
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Barely clipping lungs and liver, is going to result in runners.

As an FYI, elk will cause more bullet upset than antelope.

 

[Jsmalls273]

Barely clipping lungs and liver, is going to result in runners.

As an FYI, elk will cause more bullet upset than antelope.

Would that be caused by more mass the bullet is traveling through?

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[Marshfly]

Barely clipping lungs and liver, is going to result in runners.

As an FYI, elk will cause more bullet upset than antelope.

Trying to figure out how an exit in the pocket is barely clipping but OK. Another had an entrance in the pocket with the exit in the front leg muscle adjacent to the knee joint. These shots were not "barely clipping" lungs. They were placed to avoid as much meat damage as possible.

Regardless, isn't this bullet supposed to make a football sized wound channel?

I want to be realistic about my expectations here.