Custom Rifle Journey/Review *Pic Heavy*

[camp_86]

New 6.5-7PRC. Going to shoot 140 hybrids or 140 ELDM’s hopefully. Waiting on a few components before it goes to the range.

Curious why the 140 ELDM instead of 147?

 

[huntnful]

Curious why the 140 ELDM instead of 147?

I was just looking to keep the speeds up in the short barrel. And only planned to hunt aoudad and maybe deer out to moderate ranges with it, so I didn't need the deeper wound and higher BC of the 147.

It shot the 140's at 3100fps with H1000. Then I got bored and crunched the numbers on the 156 berger, and it looked good in comparison at 3000fps so I ordered a bunch of those to test out as well.

 

[Harvey_NW]

I was just looking to keep the speeds up in the short barrel. And only planned to hunt aoudad and maybe deer out to moderate ranges with it, so I didn't need the deeper wound and higher BC of the 147.

Sometimes the 147's provide too deep of a wound, as in no fragmentation and bury into the dirt after going through the chest cavity of a mature elk, lol. Small sample but the couple animals I've hit with the 143's have been wrecked.

 

[huntnful]

Sometimes the 147's provide too deep of a wound, as in no fragmentation and bury into the dirt after going through the chest cavity of a mature elk, lol. Small sample but the couple animals I've hit with the 143's have been wrecked.

I think most bullets have that issue at some point with enough people hunting with it. But I've seen enough 147 kills to not hesitate to hunt with them. I also killed 5 bucks with 143 and it performed as advertised every time. I just have a fetish with bergers and ELDM's for some reason haha. Even though the X's seem like great killing bullets in all calibers as well.