ELD-Ms Work.

[Dark timber]

Anyone with experience with the ELDM on an animal below 100 yards?

Last season my daughter shot a buck frontal at 50ish yds. He went over backwards and died in seconds. I never looked for the bullet.
Then she killed a cow elk at probably 70yds mostly broadside. The bullet exited after penetrating the onside shoulder blade and exiting taking out a rib. Total devastation inside the cavity. She went about 30yds, tipped over dead and slid down the hill a ways. I found some small fragments while butchering but it seems most of the bullet exited.
Both were shot with 140gr eld-m from a 6.5 creedmoor 2720fps

 

[Clark33]

108 ELDM, mule deer 125yds.

Entrance:


Recovered bullet in offside hide:

 

[Longshot_ultramag]

147eldms out of a 6.5-284 excellent results on AZ Coues deer.

 

[WoolyBugger]

Used 140 eldm factory loads in 6.5cm this year for Iowa late January anterless season. 200 yards on the first one 30 yard recovery. second one (pictured) was 313 yards bang flop. Wish I took better picture of the wound channels but on the second one, it blew out the offside shoulder, which was what people said a 6.5cm with match bullets was incapable of

 

[blacktailcentral]

25 SAUM
134gr ELD-M
3260 FPS
Shot was at maybe 30 yards. Bang ️ Flop ️.

Picture is the impact side. Bullet was just under the hide on the off side.

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Whats your load data for this 25 saum?

 

[wilsoN_]

Anyone with experience with the ELDM on an animal below 100 yards?

I shot a white tail this past fall 90 yards, broadside, 130gr ELD 2800fps MV, heart shot DRT, pencil hole in, golf ball size pass through. Deleted heart and most of the lung tissue.

 

[BLJ]

Anyone with experience with the ELDM on an animal below 100 yards?

Eastern whitetail doe. Stumbled about 30 -40 yards down hill. Never kicked.

 

[Grizzle]

Shot this cougar treed at about 15 yards. Bullet enterd from below, liquefied everything in front of the diaphragm then blew this section of spine out. Caught about 70 grains of the 140eldm under the hide on top side. Cat didn't twitch, died in tree. Almost had to hike out for a saw and fall the tree but it had a good twitch about 5 minutes after the shot and fell to the ground luckily.

 

[Tanner]

Here’s a video of a pretty big goat getting shot with 2 140 ELDM’s out of a 6.5 Creed. MV was about 2650, distance was a touch under 350 yards. I hit him in the front portion of the rib cage on the first shot after not holding any wind and the second pounded his shoulders. I believe that both exited but it’s been a couple years now. The second broke both shoulders and both did an incredible amount of internal damage with minimal exit side cape damage. Also kind of a testament to the Cling to life that old billy goats can have …

 

[wpeach1912]

I killed a muley and a whitetail and my wife killed a cow elk with 147s at 2650. Total tracking distance was 0 yards. Muley pictured below. 100 yards high shoulder broadside. Don’t have good terminal effects pictures from the elk, but she shot it at 180 yards quartering to in front of the near shoulder and it dropped. Whitetail was through the neck just below the skull.

 

[Pickettpuncher]

2 different deer, shot about a minute apart with 75 eldm in 223. Approximately 110 yards and 80 yards