Thread: ELD-X 6.5

The AMAX reputation for hunting was surely built on a combination of accuracy and the ability to both expand and then fragment reliably on impact at 1800 ft/sec and below, and often quite a lot less. After Berger split their range into Orange and Yellow boxes, and despite Berger's claim to the contrary, their hunting bullets anecdotally also became less frangible, leaving the AMAX as the only mainstream design with this extreme of behaviour.

From the marketing blurb it appears as if Hornady with the ELD-X design are striving to give away this ability. Thicker shank and added interlock points to a move away from fragmentation towards more controlled expansion - - ground already covered by the NBT and a number of others - even if the impact speed required for the initiation of expansion remains low

Maybe the ELD-Match is a more direct replacement for the AMAX, retaining a thinner jacket for the target bullet variants (in reverse of the change that occurred with the Bergers) and therefore low-speed fragmentation ? Has anyone sectioned the three bullets for comparison and could post an image please ?