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

Originally Posted by BRADS

I'm picking you may of actually missed mate, and the pill blew something into the deer which is what your mate on the spotter saw? Dont take that the wrong way just what I got from reading it and looking at that pill. Heres 2 animals shot at 500 yards with the 143 eldx, as you can see they werent going anywhere.

Nah. We debated that at the time, that's what I wanted to believe! But the manner of the instant pole-axed drop, the time it stayed down, the offside wound and constant licking at it, the slow hobbling, and also the fact that the bullet was exactly where I expected it to be in the bank.... the animal was standing on an old bike track right in front of a very distinctive small slip, bullet was recovered at the perfect height for a shoulder shot. I hear what you're saying, its always a possibility, but we couldn't get a miss and maybe a fragment of jacket hitting the animal to work with the evidence.