308, was a large and very messy exit, caused by larger fragments bursting through in a wide wound radius. What I experienced many times with the SST in. The low position of the Interlock left a lot more bullet to fragment, the thin jacket down to the lock readily broke up. The cannelure in the SST never did much to hold the bullet together in my experience, especially at shorter ranges. 30 cal and 6.5mm and shot a lot of goats (couple of hundred), two dozen or so deer and several medium to large pigs, I can say that it performs a lot more reliably and less “messily” than the SST. It is a quite different bullet, and having used it now for a year in. The main point of me posting this then is to suggest that IMO the ELD-X is not simply a longer SST. One thing about Nathan, he sure is deep into the physics of terminal performance.) The ballistics tech wrote back with an excellent, detailed response, and I was correct, the spitzers are the exact same bullet, manufactured from the same materials to the same design, but for the boat tail on the GameKing. This hasn’t been my experience of these bullets at all, so I wrote to Sierra and asked. (I had a good debate with him a couple of weeks ago, tackling his claim that the Sierra ProHunter and GameKing spitzers are manufactured to different designs, to be controlled expansion vs frangible. Nathan Foster said that in his book, and I think he’s wrong and have pointed that out to him, which was a fun debate! Nathan is well respected and rightly so, but a few details in his books on the website knowledgebase aren’t correct IMO, or are heavily skewed towards proper long range hunting, but what’s great is that he’ll freely debate it with you. There have been some claims that the ELD-X is simply a higher BC replacement for the SST.
That the price of ELD-Ms seems to have shot up compared to the equivalent A-Max, well that’s somewhat annoying, especially when comparing the same weights. There are reports of bullet blow up and poor penetration with the A-Max when shoulder shooting heavy stags at close range, in fast calibres such as. I have lower neck shot red hinds at 100-150m with A-Max and not had an exit wound, the bullet vaporises on the spine like the ProHunter in. Some though will prefer a slightly tougher bullet to ensure adequate penetration, particularly when striking the scapula or humerus bones. 260 Rem) for medium range deer, very successfully on the basins of the Southern Alps. I know a couple of Youtube personalities here in NZ that use ELD-M over ELD-X in their rifles (e.g. Lots of guys use(d) A-Max across all hunting ranges, I have used them very effectively in. It is a soft, highly frangible bullet best suited in my opinion to proper medium to long range shooting, 300m to however far your rifle will shoot above 1600fps, as it will readily expand and fragment at lower velocities. Terminal performance of the ELD-M is the same as the A-Max. In 6.5mm and 7mm, the heaviest ELD-Ms are a lot heavier and longer than the heaviest A-Max in each calibre, this is where the largest increases in BC are seen in the ELD-M range over what went before. This accounts for the slight increase in BC. There is, however, an important distinction, and that is the material the tip is made of, which we are told doesn’t deform in flight due to the extreme temperatures generated through friction. The picture is a to-scale representation of the four bullets in. Most of what follows many of you already know, but if this helps someone make the right call on buying the right bullet for their intended quarry, then great. There’s still a lot of scepticism out there about what replaced what, some justified, some not so much.
For the nth time I got into a debate about the differences between the aforementioned Hornady bullets recently, with shooters at the local NZDA.
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