Hornady ELDX at longer distances

[TradLife406]

I recovered the jacket from my 143 gr ELDX from my PRC out of my loper doe.

It would appear that the core flew out of the jacket and kept on going.

Is this normal? I thought this bullet was designed to mushroom at longer ranges?

Can someone with a lot more experience explain this?

Is this normal? Interesting either way!
750 yards.

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[Forest]

I wouldnt say it's normal but it's definitely not uncommon!

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[Wrench]

I run the eld-m and had better expansion. I haven't stuffed anything up tight with that bullet yet.

 

[762 ULTRAMAGA]

Wow that doesn't look good at all..
I'm glad you posted this i was looking into the 175 eldx bullets
Pretty sure I'll stick with Bergers now

 

[KYhunter50]

I don't that should be normal. I've seen the Match bullets do that but not the X.

 

[MallardAddict]

Never seen an eld-x open so little. Typically at longer ranges they stay together in me experience, up closer the core does leave the jacket and expansion is fast like a Berger.

 

[HuntHarder]

We shot a bull elk with one a few weeks ago. 143 eld-x out of a 6.5 manbun. The shot was 130 yards and the core completely seperated from the jacket. The bull was absolutely hammered and only went a very short distance after the shot. I shot a caribou at 300 yards with a 145 eld-x going 3180 at the muzzle and the bullet blew right thru the ribcage and exited the bou. Wound channel was large and the bull was DRT.

 

[Wapiti1]

That looks very much like it tumbled after it hit the animal. Probably hit a rib on the way in, smashed the tip and things went haywire from there. Long range with lower rotational speed and stabilization starting to decline. If it doesn't open, it is guaranteed to tumble.

Hornady saw this in testing when they were developing the ELD line and documented it in a couple of papers on their heat resistant tip development. Of course, none of their bullets tumbled in testing, but realistically, their bullets can tumble too. It's a matter of stability, not bullet design.

What does it mean? Nothing at this point. There isn't enough info to make any conclusions. It could realistically happen with any bullet, or may never happen again.

Jeremy

 

[smby]

I shot 4 coues deers, 2 cow elks from 300 to 550 yards with 143 ELDX with mv of 2700 fps. All with one shot and died either instant or within a min. Expansion is fine from what I can tell. Placement is more important.

 

[Tahoe1305]

A bit late but shot an bull at 658yds behind facing shoulder then angled to opposing shoulder with 175. Broke through shoulder penetrated meat and stuck in hide. Down in 20yds. No blood though. A bit of fragmentation and meat damage but not too bad with that shot placement.

Running 2975fps out of 7wsm loaded a bit long. Impact should have been about 2150fps. I think inside of 300 or so the result may have been a bit more violent. Not much weight retention either.

 

[alpine_troop]

Here’s another data point. 143 ELDX recovered from a mule deer, taken at 715 yards with a muzzle velocity of ~2620 fps from 6.5 CM

 

[MOBowkill]

Here is a recovered Eld-x 143gr from my 6.5 PRC. Shot was front facing slightly quartering breaking the front shoulder and stopping on the opposite side flank area. Factory Hornady Performance Hunter, 60 yd shot on a whitetail.

 

[MOBowkill]

Here is a recovered Eld-x 143gr from my 6.5 PRC. Shot was front facing slightly quartering breaking the front shoulder and stopping on the opposite side flank area. Factory Hornady Performance Hunter, 60 yd shot on a whitetail.

70grs final weight

 

[TimberHunter]

Two more 6.5 143 eldx. Both pulled from mule deer. First was from 330 yards, second from 420 yards. Bullet leaving my 24” tikka barrel at 2650 fps (shooting precision hunter factory ammo because it shoots so darn well).

They’ve done well so far but wonder how they would do at longer distances and lower velocity. Brother shot a cow elk this past weekend with this setup,hit the spine and exited so we didn’t find the bullet.

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[Formidilosus]

They’ve done well so far but wonder how they would do at longer distances and lower velocity.

They do very well down to 1,750-1,800 FPS impact velocity.

 

[Rharfo]

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[AC300win]

What was/is your impact velocity at that distance with your load? Curious about your observed on game performance. Pic is of a 200 grain eldx at 650 from a 300 win on a large cow elk with an impact velocity 1914 fps and 1627 ft lbs per shooter ballistics 2875 muzzle velocity. Core separated from jacket and both pieces were found behind opposite shoulder against hide. Recovered bullet was 140 grains.

 

[FireNelk]

Bullet recovered from Elk shot at 450yds with 200gr eldx out of 300winmag