Bullet performance data base

[aimpoint]

Also if you have a bad day at a PRS or target shoot you shrug your shoulders and call it a bad day. Where as if you have a bad day in the bush with a kak bullet you are in for a really bad day….


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[TStone]

Two 103gr ELD-X bullets, fired from a 6mm Creedmoor at ±2900fps. One recovered from a warthog shot at ±50m and one from a blesbok at ±450m.
This illustrates the effect of impact velocity, on fragile hunting bullets, rather well.
The ELD-x is a good long range hunting bullet, but I do not consider it to be a good all-round hunting bullet.

Recovered from a warthog shot at ±50m. Adult female, slightly angling away from shot. Bullet entered on shoulder and was recovered under the skin between shoulder and neck on the opposite side. It was an instant kill.
Recovered weight: 27.8gr (27%)



Recovered from a blesbok male shot at 450m. Blesbok was angling towards shot, the bullet entered between the neck and the shoulder, penetrated diagonally through the chest cavity and stopped against the rumen. The ram ran ±50m before dropping.
Retained weight: 69.7gr (67.7%)

[Adoons]

TStone, I have shot a few (8 or 9?)Impala rams with 220 gr ELDx @ 1850 fps MV from my 3006. All broadside shots. Load developed for specific purpose. Am yet to recover a bullet, but from the looks of "intact" exit wounds and minimal meat damage and about a 20 mm hole punched through ribs at exit side it definetaly seems they hold together at reduced velocity, but provide for decent expansion for quick killing lung / top of heart shots.

They are also shooting sub moa at the reduced velocity, so the design do stabilize the bullet.

I have not, but the long, heavy and slow I will not pass up a broadside shot on kudu of BwB. The "knock down" experienced on the Impalas is impressive.

Will I load them to 2300 fps and take on Eland? No.

[TStone]

TStone, I have shot a few (8 or 9?)Impala rams with 220 gr ELDx @ 1850 fps MV from my 3006. All broadside shots. Load developed for specific purpose. Am yet to recover a bullet, but from the looks of "intact" exit wounds and minimal meat damage and about a 20 mm hole punched through ribs at exit side it definetaly seems they hold together at reduced velocity, but provide for decent expansion for quick killing lung / top of heart shots.

They are also shooting sub moa at the reduced velocity, so the design do stabilize the bullet.

I have not, but the long, heavy and slow I will not pass up a broadside shot on kudu of BwB. The "knock down" experienced on the Impalas is impressive.

Will I load them to 2300 fps and take on Eland? No.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Heath Robinson]

I think ine has to try fairly hard to make a bullet so soft that it performs badly at impact velocities af 1800ft/s and below.

3000 is a different ball game.

Horses for courses.

[458Exp]

We hunted n youngish buffalo bull the weekend.
Bull was shot for 30m just behind left shoulder and was found under the skin on the opposite shoulder.

Caliber was a 375 H&H using SBC .375 300gr

[ListerG]

First picture - bullet is a 500gr Woodleigh out of a 470NE at 2050fps. Shot from 10m between the shoulder blades of a buffalo bull and ended up in the lower thorax

Second picture is the same 500gr Woodleigh bottom left, top right a 400gr Swift Aframe shot at 2350 fps inside 100m through the front left shoulder of the same buffalo quartering to, broke the shoulder went through the heart, lungs and ended up under the intestinal material on the opposing side. It lost its core and its mushroom which appeared to shear off. That said it was the first shot and was fatal.

The darker bullet is a 400gr swift A Frame shot out of a 416 Rigby at similar speed (2350) included only for comparison. Impact was behind the shoulder.

I haven’t weighed the bullets yet but will in next week. First impression it looked like the swift was put under a serious amount of pressure and I mad impressed with the woodleigh’s performance.

[458Exp]

SBC .257 100hr out of a 25-06 @ 3200.

Blesbok shot at 150m, shot on the shoulder and bullet recovered on the opposite side behind the ribs.

[Dinat]

SBC .257 100hr out of a 25-06 @ 3200.

Blesbok shot at 150m, shot on the shoulder and bullet recovered on the opposite side behind the ribs.

Outstanding!


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[TStone]

Perfect performance.