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Tim King

I have been reading and living by the information in the cartridge knowledge base here since 2012. I shoot mostly Hornady amax and eld bullets and like the quick killing fragmentation that they exibit. However there is a drawback and that is meat destruction. When placing that shot around the shoulder ie. Right on, In front, or right behind the shoulder I have a lot of meat loss on the animals I have shot when shots are shorter than expected. I’m trying to mitigate meat loss and still have a bullet that will quickly and effectively kill the animals I shoot. I’m in the western US and the three main animals I shoot are whitetail deer (approximately 150-200lbs) mule deer (approximately 200-300lbs) and antelope(less than 150lbs), on occasion I get to hunt Elk. I shoot a variety of calibers and cartridges from the 6.5/47 lapua to the 338 rum. But most of my hunting is with a 270 Winchester, 280AI, 7mm wsm, 308, 300 wsm, or 300 win mag. I have avoided monolithic bullets because they typically have poor BC numbers and have been notoriously bad at killing game effectively. However recently Cutting-edge and Badlands precision have put out some bullets with impressive BC numbers and supposed better expansion. What experience can I expect with these bullets at extended range? I have thought about loading two different rounds to hunt with and keeping a “close range round” loaded in the rifle for unexpected close shots out to 300yds max. And then leaving the rifle set up to run a long range ELDM bullet for the longer shots where a softer bullet is needed. However, if these new monolithic bullets actually live up to
The hype it might be worth a switch.