Thread: 223 on deer

Originally Posted by gimp

Left - right: Red hind 250m, fallow buck 170m, bull tahr 60m. Nice little mushrooms...

That is one of the most interesting recovered bullet photos I have seen in a while @gimp.

I’ve been a staunch advocate of ELD-M bullets in my homeland for a good while now - I am using the 6mm version and flattening reds, fallow and goats past 400m. Very happy indeed with the terminal performance. By and large I get lambasted by the Europeans for being an unethical heathen for even hinting at the use of “match bullets”. (Add that to the concept of using a .224 calibre rifle and I’d be put on the rack.)

I’d love to know what the expansion on those mushrooms is as a function of calibre. They all look over 2x and a bit more.