Norma 6.5 PRC 143gr Bondstrike

[Chris in TN]

I agree with your eld x statement . Shot a medium sized WT - at 50 yards - bugger snuck up on me and it was second to last day on a piece of pressured public - the bullet just penciled thru never found him till February. He ran into the swamp. Hornady engineers advised me to switch to CX for white tail .

When the eld-x first came out I shot a pile of deer with them one year - we used to have a place we could kill lots of does and I shot 4 or 5 does and a buck in a week - and it just really bothered me that I got maybe one exit wound out of 6 shots, on smaller whitetails, with a 162 grain .284" 7mm bullet. They were very accurate, they just absolutely disintegrated faster than any cup and core bullet I'd ever shot, so I stopped using them and eventually went to Nosler Accubonds, which of course hold together well and expand well as long as they have enough velocity. Along the way I shot a deer with a 180ELDM and decided to go that route in the future.

This is all with a 280AI.

I'm far from an experienced elk hunter but I've had exit wounds on both elk I shot with the 160 284 accubond. I just sort of wonder now how much an exit matters if it's just going to plug up with hair and not bleed. Getting a whitetail to bleed from an exit is much easier, from what I have seen, than getting an elk to leave a blood trail. If it isn't going to bleed I don't have much of a problem with it expanding violently inside, I guess, as long as it doesn't blow up before it gets through the shoulder, which isn't something I've personally seen anyway.

 

[260284]

I should mentioned that I was using the Bondstrike in Africa but my buddy was using the 147 ELD-M. His animals died much faster than mine and he shot a few more large animals than I did.

Did either of you get exits on any animals? What was the range of the shots?

 

[parshal]

Neither bullet had exits. Shots were 80 - 350. In total, we had, I think, 14 animals from warthog to Kudu size.