7mm 162 ELDX performance

I know a few people have had mixed success with the terminal performance of these pills. I am yet to have a bad experience shooting deer, tahr and now pigs with them from close to afar.

Last night was the first time they got used on some armour. I shot these two big boars, the brown one at about 80metres and the black one about 150metres. The shield armour on the big black one would have been an inch thick at the shoulder, shit he was a solid pig. The eldx penetrated both of them and sealed the deal. The first time i’ve shot an animal with a layer that tough. I was quite impressed.

good to see the performance on a tough/solid animal. Shoulder shots ?

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Originally Posted by chainsaw

good to see the performance on a tough/solid animal. Shoulder shots ?

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Yup

100% agree. I pretty much shoot everything in the shoulder and the 162 ELDX have been great. A bit slower in the 284 than @stagstalker but still good sized holes.

I haven't heard any bad reports but then I dont shoot 7mm so may have missed something?

The x should be the go over the m on a tough animal like a sizable boar I would have thought.

They seem to work well in all calibers.

Run them in my 280rem, taken a number of big bodied reds and a few reasonable otago porkers. They have been emphatic, most have dropped on the spot. Very impressive performance.

Really over rated and not worth the box they come in, infact if you send them to me i'll see they're disposed of safely:thumbsup:

These bullets were the replacement for the 162gn 7mm amax no ?

Try some 160 TMK if you can find them. They work well too

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Originally Posted by Nathan F

These bullets were the replacement for the 162gn 7mm amax no ?

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They were both released on the stop of amax eldm would be closer to the amax rather than the x . Iv had the fail in 300wm 7rm and 7 blaser mag but probably 4 out of 600 and all running very fast on animals pretty close . Iv also had my best kills with them out far and up close qid say 4 out of 600 odds not bad going at all

Did the ELD-X exit @stagstalker?

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Originally Posted by 300_BLK

Try some 160 TMK if you can find them. They work well too

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Loading them in my mate Jacob’s 7mm RM, seem to go well!

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Originally Posted by Flyblown

Did the ELD-X exit @stagstalker?

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@Flyblown I think one did and one didn’t

I’m still getting exit wounds on shoulders at 2000fps. Insides are jellied but kills can still be slow although animals don’t move far if at all.

I’ll post below a photo of a recovered projectile at 2012fps. Slightly quartered spiker, punctured shoulder and recovered on offside crease.

I’ve since shot at either lungs or shoulder/neck junction with better results. Not trying to preach anything just sharing my own learnings.

I’ve got some cheap interlock btsps that I’m interested in trialling once I can find powder.

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Cheers for the report mate, Good to know.

I'll be the first to admit I'm dubious about them from the stories I have heard! But good to know they actually do work.

I've been using these in the rem mag as well, put it in the right spot and they'll die :thumbsup:

Front of the shoulder shots seem to soak up all the energy in my experience, inline with the front of the front leg if that makes sense. Travelled through both shoulders and came to rest just under the skin on the off side, you could grab the bullet through the skin it was so close to exiting. Had exactly the same result on a red spiker and a fallow hind at 150 ish yards each. Impact velocity of about 2800 fps. Both did the same thing, lights out instantly.

A red hind at 320 yards, shot went just behind the crease and exited, pulled some lung out with it, about a pool ball sized exit wound, anchored on the spot but took about 30 seconds to expire. Should have stuck to the front of the shoulder placement on hind sight.
Impact for that one would have been just over 2500 fps.

Still performed on a chamois at just past 500 yards as well, not a huge wound channel but dead on the spot, through both shoulders again and exited, about a gold ball size exit wound. Impact velocity around 2300 fps.

Neck shot a fallow at about 50 yards and nearly decapitated it.

Highly recommend

Im about to load some of these for a guy but lockdown means he cant get his rifle to me.. can someone please share a a COAL close to the lands that works with a Tikka T3?

Cheers

Mine are are 2.720” base to ogive which puts them at 30thou jump for my Tikka 7mmRM. With the steel lip removed from the end of the magazine they only just fit.

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Originally Posted by stagstalker

Mine are are 2.720” base to ogive which puts them at 30thou jump for my Tikka 7mmRM. With the steel lip removed from the end of the magazine they only just fit.

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Thanks mate, just the info I needed