I have shot two animals with 30-06 178 gr ELD-X and had poor bullet performance on both. First was a large bull elk, first shot he didn’t act like he was hit, second which was inches from the first put him down. Recovered the jacket of one bullet in lung tissue and fragments of bullet all over inside of him. Second was an axis a couple weeks ago the bullet went through then followed the hide causing trauma far forward of the exit wound. What was most disturbing is shown in this picture. Entry wound and the obvious fragmenting of the bullet to the rear. Bullet lost almost 50% of its weight. I did shoot a Texas white tail and it worked fine, I will limit my use to whitetail size critters if I ever use it again.
