Thread: 6.5 143 ELD-X, are they THE 6.5 hunting bullet?

Originally Posted by Kelton

Vld is a different kettle of fish hunting not target unlike its honardy counterpart the vld target is a shocking pill on animals not to be used

The 168 VLD hunting in my saum has been awesome. Myself and two mates all run the 135 classic hunters in two 260s and one creedmoor that have taken a lot of deer between them now, all to great effect. Deadly. Tbh I have never really experienced a legitimately poor projectile myself. From eldx to eldm to sst to berger to cupncore soft point etc they all just killed pretty good. Just lead down range.

I have just done a new load for me mates rem mag though as he hated the 160 TMK, found them to pencil bad if nothing solid was hit and lost a few animals. Now got him on 162 eldm and loving them.

Probably my only marginal experience with a pill was the 162 eldx in my rem mag on a rear shoulder shot where the animal took a long time to expire. But that was also my only marginal experience out of many good kills and I also don’t like rear shoulder shots for that reason anyway so I didn’t really put much weight on the experience.