Which Bullets to use? ELD-m "Murder bullets" for everything?

[Cynoscion]

Thanks bud. Same to you.
500 lbs dressed plus 80-100 lbs of internals.

 

[PC356]

You are the man! Enjoy the season. Happy for you.

Did it sound like a joke? Did my tone come off offensive? Relax a bit man. Shoot your 223 all day. I'm not a Nilgai hunter so

Ok. Sorry for the misinformation. I guess 850 ish. Lot of sensitivity on here. I'll tap out and let you all get back to business. No harm was meant and no disrespect was meant.

Quick google search claims the heaviest bull on record is around 680 lbs…

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

I feel the same way. Have a neck injury so avoid at all costs. Guide "required" a 300 as minimum. But after I saw the damn thing it kind of felt T-Rex like. My 300 with a 180 TTSX went the entire length of the animal front to back and lodged just at the ass. It still ran and I put a shot in the neck in the brush. Shot the rest of the ranch up with a 7 Saum and Berger bullets.

I was making a bad joke sorry.

If any "guide" has a "caliber" restriction I'd stay far away from them personally.

Animals sometimes run after being hit, man. From coyotes to buffalo and 22 LR to 404 Jeffery I've seen them all both die right there and run miles.

One thing that's consistent in high enough volume and with any bullet diameter in that I've seen, is that heavy for caliber tipped style bullets of good design and construction lead to the quickest kills.

 

[Cynoscion]

Protein fed vs free range country would be my guess but a far cry from 1300

 

[rbutcher1234]

I’m not trying to be a dick. I am just saying that when we have to cull animals, we are after the most efficient thing that kills it RIGHT THERE. Most of us choose a 223 with tmk or gold dots.

We have an even bigger motivation to drop the animal immediately and with as few steps than perhaps a trophy hunter does.

 

[calico pig]

Quick google search claims the heaviest bull on record is around 790 lbs..

I'm wrong guys. Glad you fact checked me. Hopefully no one loses sleep over this one.

 

[calico pig]

Quick google search claims the heaviest bull on record is around 680 lbs…

Thank God for google and guys to run fact checks in real time. Appreciate.

 

[calico pig]

I’m not trying to be a dick. I am just saying that when we have to cull animals, we are after the most efficient thing that kills it RIGHT THERE. Most of us choose a 223 with tmk or gold dots.

We have an even bigger motivation to drop the animal immediately and with as few steps than perhaps a trophy hunter doe

Motivation sounds like an opinion. I thought we were fact checking here. So you have a bigger motivation for a quick kill than I may to cleanly drop an animal before it heads to the brush or off a cliff? What if I said I have the highest level of motivation imaginable to drop my animals fast? Can a fact checker chime in on how we rate motivation or if your is in fact higher than mine may be?

 

[Timberline001]

Are you saying that a mature bull nilgai weighs 1300 lbs?
I literally hunt them for a living and have for 25 seasons now. A big bull will field dress close to 500 lbs early in the season. This time of year, considerably less after running cows for a month or so.
Your post contains lots of misinformation but I will stop there.
And yes, we do shoot them standing still.

You mean they don’t run back and forth like in cabelas big game hunter and take a .300 lazeroni ultra magnum to get through their 10 inch shoulders

 

[calico pig]

You mean they don’t run back and forth like in cabelas big game hunter and take a .300 lazeroni ultra magnum to get through their 10 inch shoulders

They die fast in the center of a 223 circle jerk I think is the conclusion of this.

 

[calico pig]

I forgot the Rokslide emoji

 

[calico pig]

Thanks bud. Same to you.
500 lbs dressed plus 80-100 lbs of internals.

I can sleep now that we've nailed that one down. I'll load up my .223 and make sure weigh my next bull.

 

[bmart2622]

So you come on here and blatantly lie about the size of the "T-rex" you shot and have your theory (based on 1 hunt) of needing a big magnum completely disproven and now want to gaslight and throw sarcasm at people who are actually accomplished?!?!?

 

[NSI]

Not the most fabulous look.

Now, back to the murder bullets please. Personally I’d love to get to the bottom of the terminal vs external ballistics trade offs for the various 6.5 ELDs. We probably have enough data to get close to settling that.

-J

 

[bmart2622]

Whoa look out!!! Keyboard tough guy over here!! Yeah, you sarcastically apolgized and then proceeded to gas light and talk sh@$

 

[calico pig]

Whoa look out!!! Keyboard tough guy over here!! Yeah, you sarcastically apolgized and then proceeded to gas light and talk sh@$

So what you gonna do? Cry and whine further or we move on?

 

[bmart2622]

Didnt you "tap out" about 10 posts ago?!?!?

 

[calico pig]

Didnt you "tap out" about 10 posts ago?!?!?

So cry and whine further it is?!?!?

 

[Castle Rock]

A+ for trying

 

[bmart2622]

Were pterodactyls flying around when you shot this prehistoric mythical beast?