200gr ELD-X in a 300WSM
harvested elk from 70 - 450 yards with this. Bullets held up fine, elk did not. Have got a few other animals with this set up too, but this was about elk.
Maybe I have just got lucky with all the different boxes of bullets of 200gr ELD-X I have bought or maybe its because that bullet shoots well from my rifle and I practice lots with it.
Its fun to discuss what bullet will do the best on an elk, but the reality is find a bullet that is made for hunting and not target shooting that groups well in your gun, put it where it counts and you will have an elk. Different bullet design from fragmenting Berger VLD to a petal forming TSX, put them in the vitals, one may pass through, one may blow up inside, but guess what... the elk wont know the difference.
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