Thread: 280rem projectiles

Originally Posted by HuntGatherRepeat

Cheers guys. What's the downside of the ELDX? Too hard and not enough expansion at range?

Potentially. Past a certain velocity expansion will be limited. For my ELD-X load I’ve decided thats about 650m with the Creedmoor, with a bit of safety margin built in. Will depend on the ballistics of your load, cartridge obviously. The fail I wrote about here a couple of weeks ago was more likely point of impact, just clipping the top of the lungs and running through below the spine. That would happen with any controlled expansion bullet. I get why blokes want to use frangible bullets like ELD-M or Sierra TMK at extended ranges.

For me though I’m sticking with ELD-X because now I’ve gotten over the loss and frustration I’m not particularly enthusiastic to go through the whole load development drama again, because before and after that incident I’ve shot a lot of goats at shorter and longer ranges and they’ve all died on the spot. It’s been bloody good for me, with the one exception. And last week my business partner shot several reds off of the winter feed block with the 6.5 ELD-X all at extended range and knocked them all over no fuss or bother.

But of course several times since he’s just pointed out to me that’s because he’s a better shot.