Thread: 6.5 143 ELD-X, are they THE 6.5 hunting bullet?

Originally Posted by Kelton

Vld is a different kettle of fish hunting not target unlike its honardy counterpart the vld target is a shocking pill on animals not to be used

The 168 VLD hunting in my saum has been awesome. Myself and two mates all run the 135 classic hunters in two 260s and one creedmoor that have taken a lot of deer between them now, all to great effect. Deadly. Tbh I have never really experienced a legitimately poor projectile myself. From eldx to eldm to sst to berger to cupncore soft point etc they all just killed pretty good. Just lead down range.

I have just done a new load for me mates rem mag though as he hated the 160 TMK, found them to pencil bad if nothing solid was hit and lost a few animals. Now got him on 162 eldm and loving them.

Probably my only marginal experience with a pill was the 162 eldx in my rem mag on a rear shoulder shot where the animal took a long time to expire. But that was also my only marginal experience out of many good kills and I also don’t like rear shoulder shots for that reason anyway so I didn’t really put much weight on the experience.

Originally Posted by stagstalker

The 168 VLD hunting in my saum has been awesome. Myself and two mates all run the 135 classic hunters in two 260s and one creedmoor that have taken a lot of deer between them now, all to great effect. Deadly. Tbh I have never really experienced a legitimately poor projectile myself. From eldx to eldm to sst to berger to cupncore soft point etc they all just killed pretty good. Just lead down range.

I have just done a new load for me mates rem mag though as he hated the 160 TMK, found them to pencil bad if nothing solid was hit and lost a few animals. Now got him on 162 eldm and loving them.

Probably my only marginal experience with a pill was the 162 eldx in my rem mag on a rear shoulder shot where the animal took a long time to expire. But that was also my only marginal experience out of many good kills and I also don’t like rear shoulder shots for that reason anyway so I didn’t really put much weight on the experience.

I think mine were 130grn but not sure what one VDL hunting or target.

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Originally Posted by 25/08 IMP

I think mine were 130grn but not sure what one VDL hunting or target.

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I have definitely heard of some bad berger experiences. There seems to be some select caliber and weight combos that maybe don’t perform as well for whatever reason. @mawzer308 for example had some bad experiences with them in 270.

I found the 135 Berger classics to be vicious killers, although I never shot an animal under 200yds with them.

You had to keep an eye on the meplat on the old Berger's (orange box) that was the cause of a lot of fails seem to have fixed that issue with the later batchs

Got some autosol and some instructions, I'll get stuck into it tonight

Just tried some 120 gr ELD-Xs in my 6.5x55. Was doing a load test and had 9 different loads, 3 rounds each.
The second load of 49gr of N560 pretty much keyholed the 3 rounds. And yeah I know, 5 round groups yada yada yada but still.

Sigh... now I'm gonna have to buy the 143s and try them. Anyone got any LRPs? :-)

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