Thread: First fail - 6.5mm 143gr ELD-X

Originally Posted by superdiver

Exactly the topic I did not need to read haha. Looking at buying some pills for my 260 as want something as a 1 pill does all but last thing I want to deal with is an animal getting up at long range and walking off.

I think @gimp has a good point, says me making myself feel better, the rifle's log book has got an estimated 220 goats and a certifiable 12 reds to its name. (Lose count on the goats sometimes.) Until this happened, I hadn't considered the ELD-X as anything other than damn effective. I certainly am not hinting to you fellas not to use them, it is just the one fail so far.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

my take on it...... dont kick your self too hard ,just learn from it and shift point of aim forwards a bit maybe..... said it before and will say it again...take out the front wheels and they aint going anywhere....

Yup there's been a lot of learning alright, you never stop even after what, 36 years of centrefires now? Stupid, rookie error, over confident after a morning of systematically knocking goats off faces at the same kind of range.

I've been wondering about the void. Like to think I've got a pretty good handle on anatomy, I never got to see it in the spotting scope which is a very nice x85 Vortex but my shooting buddy gave me a running commentary something along the lines of "I can't fuckin' believe its still standing.... you've hit it bang on.... bugger me it still hasn't gone down.... oh dear its just popped over the ridgeline". He drew a blue mark on this picture on the ipad, from what he could see.



Out of interest, here's three recovered ELD-X. The first two killed their animals on the spot.