Thread: Hornady ELD-X sections

G'day fellas I've actually spoke about the ELD-X on this forum before and then and still I don't use them because to me they were too unpredictable . now since then I've done a lot of asking around the ridges about who used ELD-X and what they thought about them and the info was that many 308 users said that they were happy with them and rarely had any problems then I asked the 6.5 people and they almost mimicked the 308 people in having no troubles to write home about so then I got in touch with some mates pro shooters and ordinary hunters who use 7mm mag with ELD-X nearly all have had problems with them but out past 300m they had reasonably good kills even in donkeys and bulls and camel so to me this says that velocity is playing out here I tend to agree with Winaa on his post now the 308 and 6.5 are down on velocity to the 7mag but when it reaches out it tends to pick up the same velocity as the other two calibers that are closer in ie 2300fps to 2800fps this puts it in a similar velocity bracket as the 308 and 6.5 then the ELD-X seems to work maybe in the 7mag we should be slowing them down in velocity to get them to work better in closer but then we defeat the purpose of having a 7mag for its knock down power for larger animals when it could be done with 308 or 6.5 even though they are two quiet capable calibers So in my thinking the 7mag could be just a caliber that relies on long distance shots to have the ELD-X work as expected or required and by saying this it doesn't mean the ELD-X is a total write off but maybe just finicky to velocity in 7mag

Originally Posted by rigga

G'day fellas I've actually spoke about the ELD-X on this forum before and then and still I don't use them because to me they were too unpredictable . now since then I've done a lot of asking around the ridges about who used ELD-X and what they thought about them and the info was that many 308 users said that they were happy with them and rarely had any problems then I asked the 6.5 people and they almost mimicked the 308 people in having no troubles to write home about so then I got in touch with some mates pro shooters and ordinary hunters who use 7mm mag with ELD-X nearly all have had problems with them but out past 300m they had reasonably good kills even in donkeys and bulls and camel so to me this says that velocity is playing out here I tend to agree with Winaa on his post now the 308 and 6.5 are down on velocity to the 7mag but when it reaches out it tends to pick up the same velocity as the other two calibers that are closer in ie 2300fps to 2800fps this puts it in a similar velocity bracket as the 308 and 6.5 then the ELD-X seems to work maybe in the 7mag we should be slowing them down in velocity to get them to work better in closer but then we defeat the purpose of having a 7mag for its knock down power for larger animals when it could be done with 308 or 6.5 even though they are two quiet capable calibers So in my thinking the 7mag could be just a caliber that relies on long distance shots to have the ELD-X work as expected or required and by saying this it doesn't mean the ELD-X is a total write off but maybe just finicky to velocity in 7mag

Or do as @stug does and have 2 different loads 1 projectile for close range like a soft point and the eldx for longer range stuff.
I may do this as I am developing a load for 270wsm when I get my new rifle back from Gunworks.