Hornady ELD-M out penetrates SST

[Stinky Coyote]

Great vid.

Didn't you kill a moose with a CZ grendel and 123 eld-m factory ammo?

First thing you need to realize is that how a bullet is marketed really has nothing absolute to do with how it performs. If a bullet company has a bullet that they find to be accurate enough and they need a match bullet in their lineup, it is marketed as a match bullet. If they need a varmint bullet and it likes to break apart on impact, it gets marketed as a varmint bullet. It may even be marketed as a frangible big game bullet (which is a feature many hunters like and for which Berger has made a lot of money).

The Hornady AMAX bullet was a marketed match bullet that Grendel deer hunters seemed to love. Hornady never marketed it as a hunting bullet and had a disclaimer on their website saying it was not for hunting, but people loved it for hunting.

I do agree with you about polluting the extra meat with bits of lead. I hunt with a frangible varmint round made for little varmints and I use it for hogs. It works well. When folks ask me what I suggest for hunting hogs, my question to them is whether they are meat hunting or animal control hunting. For the meat hunters, I suggest bullets that tend to stay together better. However, some people are willing to lose a little extra meat or choose their shots such that they don't damage a lot of meat.

Only a tiny percentage of American hunters hunt at 500+ meter range. You will find the vast majority do most or all of their hunting within 180 meters and the vast majority of those will be within 90 meters.

Also well said, totally agree. Those long range hunters seem to love these more frangible bullets as at distance when they slow down the bullets behave more like bonded controlled expansion bullets still. Yes they are a little more damaging up close but those delayed controlled bullets at distance don't do much work, pencil holes. You can get away with little sd and pretty rapid expansion on deer no doubt, so most bullets period from the known cartridges will do the job further than most can shoot.