Thread: New 90 gr 243 ELD X

This is excellent news, thanks @Mooseman for spotting it. I’ve used the Sierra ProHunter 100gr for over 20yrs, and have been considering testing out the GameChanger 90gr for the benefit of the higher BC. So to have the ELD-X to test as well is well pleasing.

Quite a high percentage of my .243 shots are well past 200m out to 300m+, with all the normal breeze considerations. So I’m looking at the quoted BC of the 90gr GameChanger and thinking hmm, that G1 0.490 looks quite high, especially considering the ELD-X is quoted at 0.409. But the way Sierra quote BCs is different, it will fall to 0.400 and below quite quickly. Will be very interesting to do some drop tests with both of these bullets, with the ELD-X in 6.5mm and .308 both bullets have performed better for me than the models say they will.

The 6.5 and .308 ELD-X are proving to be emphatic killers of goats and deer (with the one exception), perfect blend of fragmentation of the top half with the bottom half punching on through. Hope the 6mm performs similarly.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

This is excellent news, thanks @Mooseman for spotting it. I’ve used the Sierra ProHunter 100gr for over 20yrs, and have been considering testing out the GameChanger 90gr for the benefit of the higher BC. So to have the ELD-X to test as well is well pleasing.

Quite a high percentage of my .243 shots are well past 200m out to 300m+, with all the normal breeze considerations. So I’m looking at the quoted BC of the 90gr GameChanger and thinking hmm, that G1 0.490 looks quite high, especially considering the ELD-X is quoted at 0.409. But the way Sierra quote BCs is different, it will fall to 0.400 and below quite quickly. Will be very interesting to do some drop tests with both of these bullets, with the ELD-X in 6.5mm and .308 both bullets have performed better for me than the models say they will.

The 6.5 and .308 ELD-X are proving to be emphatic killers of goats and deer (with the one exception), perfect blend of fragmentation of the top half with the bottom half punching on through. Hope the 6mm performs similarly.

how do you rate the 100 gr pro hunters. I've bought 100 but am yet to get my reloading gear together.

I use the pro hunters, the BC is rubbish but keeping the shot this side of 350 they work fine, full penetration on broadside shots and the deer drop quick enough.
They are a good bullet, cheap too, just rubbish BC

Originally Posted by NewbieZAR

I use the pro hunters, the BC is rubbish but keeping the shot this side of 350 they work fine, full penetration on broadside shots and the deer drop quick enough.
They are a good bullet, cheap too, just rubbish BC

i don't intend on shooting fyrther than 300 with a 243 so no worries there

a farmer i know is selling me some 90 gr SST so we'll seen how those go.

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

how do you rate the 100 gr pro hunters. I've bought 100 but am yet to get my reloading gear together.

The ProHunter has been my 243 bullet for longer than I can remember. It has accounted for hundreds of animals, roe, fallow, reds, gazzillions of goats, pigs.
@NewbieZAR is spot on with his range assessment, this one was taken at precisely 350m. It wobbled, took a step, fell down the bank. The ProHunters expand and shed fragments and do a lot of peripheral damage in the engine room.



The only thing I would say is that I'm very careful not to use these bullets in difficult wind conditions much past ~200-225m as they can misbehave. A heavier, higher BC bullet is the go on days like that, so I take either the Creedmoor or .308.

Its this reason why I'm so keen on getting the 90gr ELD-X to work. It will deal with wind heaps better than the ProHunter.