Finally someone shooting gel at range. Always thought people shooting gel at 15 yards and trying to convey the difference between something like a 10.3" and 14.5" AR15 were really not doing the experiment justice.
I love that your wife does this stuff with you and her laughing at your excitement at the end is wholesome. My wife doesn't mind my love of guns but she's not super interested when I nerd out about them. Probably because she knows every time I nerd out a new gun or gun accessory appears in the safe. Which has been over filled since I got it pretty much.
First, that was some darn good shooting. Second, your explanation of what you were doing at every stage was very well explained and easy to follow. Finally, I love the fact you did real world distance testing into gel. It gives hunters solid information they can use.
@@larrymitchell3502 Didnt blow up like a ballistic tip inside. Just pushed through with okay size hole about a half dollar diameter. Exit side was little bigger but didnt get that picture. Less than 10 yards and dropped. Saw blood trail on the ground from the back side where it walked and fell over.
Thumbs up on keeping the first shots on there, when you forgot to adjust the scope. All of us do it from time to time but most people would edit that out. 👍
I entered your 2600fps muzzle velocity 143gr eld-x bullet with G1 BC of .625 into federals ballistics calculator and according to that the bullet would be traveling at 1825 feet per second at 600 yards. While still having 1057 ft lbs of energy. Impressive performance!
Considering that your average 5.56 out of a 16 inch barrel only carries between 1200 and 1300 ft lb at the muzzle I would say that would still be very effective. At 1100 yards with that load you would still have about the same energy as a 147 grain 9mm at the muzzle. You might not get expansion at 1100 yards but it is most definitely still lethal.
Best part of the video was your wife commenting on how happy you looked. Great info! Thanks for all the work you did to bring this to us, I'm glad that you enjoyed yourself!
Thank you guys for taking the time and being willing to do these kind of things for the rest of us that may not have the time and resources this gives me a good starting point
I've been looking for videos like this for years!! Do more calibers!! So awesome! I'd love to see this with a 300 wm or a 270 or other common hunting rounds and bullets!!!
Outstanding! Thank you so much for putting out such real world experience. Good shooting Sir! Very impressive. It is wonderful that your wife is out there with you. Family first in the under the sun realm. Good show.
Awesome!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that you and your wife get to do that together! You 2 are awesome! Keep the great content coming! Btw… you have a truck, time to get a trailer and SXS!!!!
A little tip to try. Configure a small shade canopy over your camera to keep the sun off. Could also even rig up a small solar powered electronics fan. Awesome video!
By far the best long distance test of the eldx I've seen. I'm happy it performed as well as it did, now I will have the confidence to make those longer shots if necessary while hunting deer.
That was a lot of work. Thank you, both of you for doing this testing, filming it, and running to the cameras to make sure we get to see it too. I’m thinking of starting a petition to officially change the name of chronographs to chronometers.
Awesome. I just bought a Bergara B14 Hunter in 6.5 Creedmoor. Since I'm almost 70 years old, I wanted something that would be my go-to gun and would be easier on my shoulder than the .30-06 that I've had for over 40 years. I think I've found the gun I need. Thank you for putting this together and sharing it with us. God bless, Miles P.S. Chronometer/Chronograph... whatever. We all know what you meant, and most of us, I'll bet, didn't even catch it.
Extremely timely video. Yesterday I got up at 5:30 am to go to the desert and shoot my 6.5 Creedmore at 600 yards, a first for me. I handloaded 40gr H4250 with 140gr ELDM bullets seated up close to the lands. Last time out this rifle shot .7moa in the heat with the first 2 rounds in the center of the bull. Chronometer measured 2602fps just like yours. I messed up the ballistic calculator and came up with a setting of up 12.75 moa. I will be going back for day 2 using 14.5 and hope to be more successful like you. Thanks for all the videos.
What a great video all around. Good info for hunters for their real world application, great relationship with the wife, and phenomenal shooting at 600yds
I just now seen your video posted 4 months ago good work please make more videos like this you were the only one I ever seen the long range ballistics jail testing
This is a great test! Testing them 15 or 20 yards from the muzzle is useless. Nobody shoots anything that close. Realistic ranges are much more useful information. Thanks.
Get your wife in more videos. She seems delightful lol. Also, if you remain dubious about the creedmoor, try this with a Paul Harrell-esque 'meat target'... then you can have a cookout afterwords too
I fully understand the groaning while laying prone n getting up. The struggle is real 🤣 I just turned 37 and I'm in decent shape and it is just a part of life 🙃
You make the best darn videos. I just love them and learn so much. I live in the California (I know) and I just hate it. I haven't been able to buy primers for reloading for over 2 years. Bass Pro won't stock them because it cuts into the ammo sales and they make you join their "club" if you want to buy more than $100. worth of ammo at a time. Of course joining their club is contingent upon applying for and being granted their own credit card. No credit card, no quantity ammo sales. Total ripoff. Keep up the good work!!!
I am from RSA. Shot many blue wildebeest in my life. They are tough as hell. I once wounded one using my 375 H&H, never to be seen again. Also witnessed one run over 1km after a bad shot from a 460 Wby. Shot placement must be spot on with these animals. Recently shot 3 using 90gr Accubonds in my .243 Win. All head shots between 100m-150m. Local farmers joke that they sell most wildbeest twice, as most hunters only wound them. Happens to ALL of us.
The ELD-X is a decent bullet at lower velocities and will do the job on deer sized game at pretty much any ethical distance. I've even heard of people killing elk with them but I shot a doe in the neck 2 years ago at 75 yards and it didn't come out the other side... I shot an 80lb hog in the front shoulder at under 100 yards the same year and it didn't come out the other side and both were using the 143gr ELD-X in 6.5 Creedmoor. I wanted to like this bullet because it's an extremely accurate one and these could've been very rare results to have but I made the decision that year if it isn't a bonded or an all copper bullet outside of a few exceptions I don't hunt with them. Still a great video as always keepem coming brother!!!
All copper? You mean the entire round or just FMJ? I saw the other day you folks have different laws in each state and all copper was mentioned. Just interested thanks.
The 140gr eldm has a thinner jacket. Exited the whitetail at 300 yards (6.5 creed). Perfect double lung and the deer dropped like a sack of potatoes. Exit hole was small, but the damage to the lungs was like looking at what my 30-06 using 180gr bullets has. Never found much eldx in stock then but I did find a lot of eldm so I was stocked up. Didn’t find any pieces of the jacket or find the bullet so I’m not sure how well it stayed together. 125 grain Winchester deer season didn’t shoot well out of my rifle, but seems good out of a browning a bolt, my sister shot a whitetail with that and it dropped, and had exit so if your rifle likes them that could work for you.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Wow, who knew the Creed still hits that hard at long range? You see the numbers but jeez to see it penetrate and make a wound cavity like that and exit again, wow Hard to argue with those results and fantastic marksmanship btw, that group at 600 is fire.
Hello from Nashville. My aunt is LDS and I lived in Fredonia, AZ just south of Kanab, UT. I spent 3 months out there. Dude you remind me of the kind folks out there.
that is an awesome video and provides great 👍 insight to terminal performance. I hope u do videos on other calibers using this same test and same bullet.
Very good shooting. Always great having shooting videos in the off hunting season. 6.5 CM good hunting round for medium game and excellent for shooting having mild recoil. Considered getting one but I’m an old timer and sticking with old time .243 since I live and hunt/shoot in the southeast US. Enjoyed video.
Excellent video. I've not seen or heard of anyone else shooting those gel blocks at anything like 600 yrds &, to shoot it 3 times. That's some good shooting there brother. Good to see you've got the misses running around after your every command. Good stuff. Treat em mean, keep em keen I always say.
Wow !! thanks for the effort in making this, that is just incredible to see at this distance ! If only you had something like an off road capable e-scooter like those Dualtrons to get to the target quickly.
We're used to seeing gel get shot at 20m, good to see what happens at range. All those people who say bullets lose energy at longer range, yeah but it'll still do the job.
You are the only person I know that actually shoots a ballistic gel at long range finally I get to see some actual testing in my opinion. I would however like to see the same test, with a standard setup AR-15 16" barrel chambered in 5.56/223 but with both cartridges and M193 & M855 this I need to see besides the fact I don't think it has been done
This may be the best and most useful video you have done. I have been wanting to see some real longer distances shot at the gel for some time now. My max hunting distance I will shoot is 600, so this was perfect. Although I will not be shooting something that lacking in energy at that distance. Would love to see a 145Gr LRX shot at 600 at 32” of gel to compare out of a 28 Nosler or near equivalent.
Excellent video, and I get the excitement. If you would like…. I guess I’ll say a Second Opinion, the Barbour Creek shooting school channel does lots of tests similar to this one with a LOT of different bullets. Plus they do things like put hide and bone in front of the gel. All interesting data from you both. Cheers.
New subscriber for no other reason than watching your videos and enjoying your infectious enthusiasm. Another reason watching your videos is amazing: you virtually ignore the elephant in the room--your marksmanship! For those of us who can't hit the broadside of a Dakota Barn, you have MAD SKILLS, sir. Three questions: where in the Southwest are you shooting and filming? Also, are you former military or civilian trained? Finally, knowing how expensive ballistic gel is, do you have a DIY recipe and make your own? Inquiring minds want to know!
Chronograph?! Ha but ok we all slip. Excellent excellent excellent! You do great podcast, this was pluperfect, as far as entertaining and informative! We want more!
Wowsers!!!! That’s is surprising it went all the way through tue fell at 600 yds. Oh and amazing shooting too. Your skills are impressive. I’m going to forward your video to my buddy who is the rifle and optics editor at Guns and ammo magazine.
Lol. No idea why I said “chronometer” three times. Obviously, I meant “chronograph.”
I think the audience will know what you meant.
Nice shootin'!
Clearly you are new to this whole rifle thing!😂
@@thomasford2946 🤣
Were you using the 143 gr?
Finally someone shooting gel at range. Always thought people shooting gel at 15 yards and trying to convey the difference between something like a 10.3" and 14.5" AR15 were really not doing the experiment justice.
And hitting it at that range!
Your wife is a great woman for putting up with this stuff.
Yeah, my wife would do it once, and then she'd take the keys, and drive home in the car...leaving me out there!
Wow, epic shooting man! Nobody else ever shoots gel at long range. This video delivered!
only a gun nerd would understand the excitement!!! great shots!
Mega dittos!!
I love that your wife does this stuff with you and her laughing at your excitement at the end is wholesome.
My wife doesn't mind my love of guns but she's not super interested when I nerd out about them.
Probably because she knows every time I nerd out a new gun or gun accessory appears in the safe. Which has been over filled since I got it pretty much.
First, that was some darn good shooting.
Second, your explanation of what you were doing at every stage was very well explained and easy to follow.
Finally, I love the fact you did real world distance testing into gel. It gives hunters solid information they can use.
I had a pass through on my cow hunt at 500 yards through the lungs shooting up at an angle. Didnt hit bone. 6.5 creedmoor eldx 143gr.
@@nsaechao84nsCow elk?
Surprised you didn't hit a rib, just by chance. What kinda damage / how far did she go?
@gsh341 Second this. Real data @,considerable effort. Thank you.
@@larrymitchell3502 Didnt blow up like a ballistic tip inside. Just pushed through with okay size hole about a half dollar diameter. Exit side was little bigger but didnt get that picture. Less than 10 yards and dropped. Saw blood trail on the ground from the back side where it walked and fell over.
Thumbs up on keeping the first shots on there, when you forgot to adjust the scope. All of us do it from time to time but most people would edit that out. 👍
I entered your 2600fps muzzle velocity 143gr eld-x bullet with G1 BC of .625 into federals ballistics calculator and according to that the bullet would be traveling at 1825 feet per second at 600 yards. While still having 1057 ft lbs of energy. Impressive performance!
Considering that your average 5.56 out of a 16 inch barrel only carries between 1200 and 1300 ft lb at the muzzle I would say that would still be very effective. At 1100 yards with that load you would still have about the same energy as a 147 grain 9mm at the muzzle. You might not get expansion at 1100 yards but it is most definitely still lethal.
Yes it is! But I still wouldn't shoot at game at that distance.
Best part of the video was your wife commenting on how happy you looked. Great info! Thanks for all the work you did to bring this to us, I'm glad that you enjoyed yourself!
Thanks for this and great job doing it! I appreciate how difficult testing, let alone filming this can be.
Thank you guys for taking the time and being willing to do these kind of things for the rest of us that may not have the time and resources this gives me a good starting point
Hornady has a big smile on their face with those ELD-Xs opening up and then passing right through the gel....
Your channel is my absolute favorite! Great information. Great narrator! Love your attitude & integrity!
I've been looking for videos like this for years!! Do more calibers!! So awesome! I'd love to see this with a 300 wm or a 270 or other common hunting rounds and bullets!!!
Outstanding! Thank you so much for putting out such real world experience. Good shooting Sir! Very impressive. It is wonderful that your wife is out there with you. Family first in the under the sun realm. Good show.
Awesome!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that you and your wife get to do that together! You 2 are awesome! Keep the great content coming!
Btw… you have a truck, time to get a trailer and SXS!!!!
More of a boat guy 😀
@@backfire por que no los dos?
@@backfire do you ever go fishing 🎣
Fantastic footage! Really hope to see this explored with other common calibres.
A little tip to try. Configure a small shade canopy over your camera to keep the sun off. Could also even rig up a small solar powered electronics fan. Awesome video!
Always wanted to see gel in further distances and now I can. Thanks. Good stuff.
Finally someone shooting gel at long range!
By far the best long distance test of the eldx I've seen. I'm happy it performed as well as it did, now I will have the confidence to make those longer shots if necessary while hunting deer.
Well done, Sir. The shooting, the footage, the test, everything.
That was a lot of work. Thank you, both of you for doing this testing, filming it, and running to the cameras to make sure we get to see it too. I’m thinking of starting a petition to officially change the name of chronographs to chronometers.
Ive came back ad watched this several times. Thanks for posting, and great marksmanship.
Awesome. I just bought a Bergara B14 Hunter in 6.5 Creedmoor. Since I'm almost 70 years old, I wanted something that would be my go-to gun and would be easier on my shoulder than the .30-06 that I've had for over 40 years. I think I've found the gun I need. Thank you for putting this together and sharing it with us. God bless, Miles P.S. Chronometer/Chronograph... whatever. We all know what you meant, and most of us, I'll bet, didn't even catch it.
Extremely timely video. Yesterday I got up at 5:30 am to go to the desert and shoot my 6.5 Creedmore at 600 yards, a first for me. I handloaded 40gr H4250 with 140gr ELDM bullets seated up close to the lands. Last time out this rifle shot .7moa in the heat with the first 2 rounds in the center of the bull. Chronometer measured 2602fps just like yours. I messed up the ballistic calculator and came up with a setting of up 12.75 moa. I will be going back for day 2 using 14.5 and hope to be more successful like you.
Thanks for all the videos.
What a great video all around. Good info for hunters for their real world application, great relationship with the wife, and phenomenal shooting at 600yds
Lucky guy. Nice rifle and great support team. Excellent video, thanks.
Great job. You're really coming into your own with added skill and knowledge.
Awesome work. That smile is well deserved. Thanks for your creativity and hard work.
Way cool video. Thanks for all the work you did to make it. Its so great to have real world data we can point to and make comparisons.
Great shooting and impressive results. The Creedmoor really punches above it's weight.
Finally....someone shot gel at a realistic range....well done!
Keep up the good work. Side note...well done on keeping the kids shooting.
A lot of work went into making that vid, thank you for it, I really enjoyed it.
Impressive test with some serious results.
I just now seen your video posted 4 months ago good work please make more videos like this you were the only one I ever seen the long range ballistics jail testing
That was a seriously interesting video. I really enjoyed it. Congratulations.
I love both of these calibers. They do not disappoint.
Great video. Takes theory and puts it into application. Very, very well done.
This is a great test! Testing them 15 or 20 yards from the muzzle is useless. Nobody shoots anything that close. Realistic ranges are much more useful information. Thanks.
Whatever it is, at 15 or 20 yards it's getting the side arm. 🙌
Get your wife in more videos. She seems delightful lol. Also, if you remain dubious about the creedmoor, try this with a Paul Harrell-esque 'meat target'... then you can have a cookout afterwords too
I fully understand the groaning while laying prone n getting up. The struggle is real 🤣 I just turned 37 and I'm in decent shape and it is just a part of life 🙃
You make the best darn videos. I just love them and learn so much. I live in the California (I know) and I just hate it. I haven't been able to buy primers for reloading for over 2 years. Bass Pro won't stock them because it cuts into the ammo sales and they make you join their "club" if you want to buy more than $100. worth of ammo at a time. Of course joining their club is contingent upon applying for and being granted their own credit card. No credit card, no quantity ammo sales. Total ripoff. Keep up the good work!!!
Thanks for this video I wish more channels would do the same with gel test. Nice shooting
Best gel video for rifles yet! Shows real world results
Been wanting to see a video like this for forever. Thanks
Awesome!! We need more of these test. I would love to see 308 same test!!
Great video!!! Even better footage!!! Just incredible!!
Very impressive, also this channel is the best you guys do some great stuff
The wife's commentary was a nice addition to the entertainment value!
I’m glad to see this I hear a lot about the 6.5 not being enough to hunt with but this definitely shows that it’s capable.
I am from RSA.
Shot many blue wildebeest in my life.
They are tough as hell. I once wounded one using my 375 H&H, never to be seen again. Also witnessed one run over 1km after a bad shot from a 460 Wby.
Shot placement must be spot on with these animals.
Recently shot 3 using 90gr Accubonds in my .243 Win. All head shots between 100m-150m.
Local farmers joke that they sell most wildbeest twice, as most hunters only wound them.
Happens to ALL of us.
.243 is KING in the Midwest in the USA.
Great for varmints on up to the corn fed, white tail deer we have here
@@M240D I got a Winchester model 70 in 243. I love it but haven't gotten anything with it yet.
Baie mooi Gert, daai goed is superhero bokke.
Dankie Joe!
The ELD-X is a decent bullet at lower velocities and will do the job on deer sized game at pretty much any ethical distance. I've even heard of people killing elk with them but I shot a doe in the neck 2 years ago at 75 yards and it didn't come out the other side... I shot an 80lb hog in the front shoulder at under 100 yards the same year and it didn't come out the other side and both were using the 143gr ELD-X in 6.5 Creedmoor. I wanted to like this bullet because it's an extremely accurate one and these could've been very rare results to have but I made the decision that year if it isn't a bonded or an all copper bullet outside of a few exceptions I don't hunt with them. Still a great video as always keepem coming brother!!!
All copper? You mean the entire round or just FMJ? I saw the other day you folks have different laws in each state and all copper was mentioned. Just interested thanks.
The 140gr eldm has a thinner jacket. Exited the whitetail at 300 yards (6.5 creed). Perfect double lung and the deer dropped like a sack of potatoes. Exit hole was small, but the damage to the lungs was like looking at what my 30-06 using 180gr bullets has. Never found much eldx in stock then but I did find a lot of eldm so I was stocked up. Didn’t find any pieces of the jacket or find the bullet so I’m not sure how well it stayed together. 125 grain Winchester deer season didn’t shoot well out of my rifle, but seems good out of a browning a bolt, my sister shot a whitetail with that and it dropped, and had exit so if your rifle likes them that could work for you.
I really enjoy the videos you and your wife post, makes me happy. God bless you guys and your marriage.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one. Wow, who knew the Creed still hits that hard at long range? You see the numbers but jeez to see it penetrate and make a wound cavity like that and exit again, wow
Hard to argue with those results and fantastic marksmanship btw, that group at 600 is fire.
Great shooting! Being able to trust your ammo is extremely important.
Great video you guys! I’ve always wanted to see this test too. Appreciate it 👏🏻
Awsome video 6.5 creed is Awsome, and you shoot really well,thanks for all the info,and hard work
Thanks, for the video!
The power of Mr. 6.5 is awesome.
Fantastic shooting and amazing results
Excellent shooting man, good work! That's a solid effort for 600.
I love that hornady app - take the time to input every single data point - it is amazing
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I never seen nobody done anything like this before..
good job.
thanks for posting this video,
this is real info that all us long rang hunter's like to see.
Hello from Nashville. My aunt is LDS and I lived in Fredonia, AZ just south of Kanab, UT. I spent 3 months out there. Dude you remind me of the kind folks out there.
that is an awesome video and provides great 👍 insight to terminal performance. I hope u do videos on other calibers using this same test and same bullet.
Excellent testing over long ranges matching hunting distances
Great video, can't wait to see the same test with different calibers
Very good shooting. Always great having shooting videos in the off hunting season. 6.5 CM good hunting round for medium game and excellent for shooting having mild recoil. Considered getting one but I’m an old timer and sticking with old time .243 since I live and hunt/shoot in the southeast US. Enjoyed video.
That was some excellent shooting. I'm damn impressed. Well done.
Excellent video.
I've not seen or heard of anyone else shooting those gel blocks at anything like 600 yrds &, to shoot it 3 times. That's some good shooting there brother.
Good to see you've got the misses running around after your every command. Good stuff. Treat em mean, keep em keen I always say.
Wow !! thanks for the effort in making this, that is just incredible to see at this distance ! If only you had something like an off road capable e-scooter like those Dualtrons to get to the target quickly.
We're used to seeing gel get shot at 20m, good to see what happens at range. All those people who say bullets lose energy at longer range, yeah but it'll still do the job.
This content is the best on YT. Thank you Sir!
Amazing shooting. Can't wait to get the 6.5 prc. Doubt I'll ever hit 3 -600 yard shots in a row. Great job. Amazed at penetration .
Awesome test. I’ve been waiting for someone to make a video testing bullets at long range for a while
Point very well proven 🥂👍❣️ love this thought & efforts to share great bullet behavior. 👍👍😊
Man your videos are fun and informative. I sure wish we could use suppressors here in Canada.
Amazing results!!! Wow
You are the only person I know that actually shoots a ballistic gel at long range finally I get to see some actual testing in my opinion. I would however like to see the same test, with a standard setup AR-15 16" barrel chambered in 5.56/223 but with both cartridges and M193 & M855 this I need to see besides the fact I don't think it has been done
Awesome shooting. Cool idea for a video also. I think there’s a reason no one else does long range ballistic tests on gel! Not easy
This may be the best and most useful video you have done. I have been wanting to see some real longer distances shot at the gel for some time now. My max hunting distance I will shoot is 600, so this was perfect. Although I will not be shooting something that lacking in energy at that distance. Would love to see a 145Gr LRX shot at 600 at 32” of gel to compare out of a 28 Nosler or near equivalent.
Consistently good videos. I just got a tikka in 6.5c so definitely liking these videos, more tikka videos
Great video all the way around 👍👍👍
Great Video! I know the PRC eldx worked great at 725 on an antelope. 525 on another one. They're pretty devastating inside 400. Love em
Great video , I was just as excited as you were with the gel test, do it again and put the other gel block behind the other to catch the bullet .
Very informative video!! Good job!
man admiring his ballistic gel
life doesn't get much better than that
Great video! I hunt with a Barrett Fieldcraft in 6.5 creedmoor, currently shooting Hornady eldx 143 grain
I gave my daughter a 6.5 savage precision, not to hunt but for over watch if SHTF. Your video proves I made the right choice!
Now that's stuff hardly any one shows so cool!!
Excellent video, and I get the excitement. If you would like…. I guess I’ll say a Second Opinion, the Barbour Creek shooting school channel does lots of tests similar to this one with a LOT of different bullets. Plus they do things like put hide and bone in front of the gel. All interesting data from you both. Cheers.
New subscriber for no other reason than watching your videos and enjoying your infectious enthusiasm. Another reason watching your videos is amazing: you virtually ignore the elephant in the room--your marksmanship! For those of us who can't hit the broadside of a Dakota Barn, you have MAD SKILLS, sir.
Three questions: where in the Southwest are you shooting and filming? Also, are you former military or civilian trained? Finally, knowing how expensive ballistic gel is, do you have a DIY recipe and make your own? Inquiring minds want to know!
Chronograph?! Ha but ok we all slip. Excellent excellent excellent! You do great podcast, this was pluperfect, as far as entertaining and informative! We want more!
Really cool. Nice job on that!
That was fun. It has been known for years that a slower, heavy for caliber bullet will penetrate exceptionally well. You've just re-affirmed that.
Wowsers!!!! That’s is surprising it went all the way through tue fell at 600 yds.
Oh and amazing shooting too. Your skills are impressive. I’m going to forward your video to my buddy who is the rifle and optics editor at Guns and ammo magazine.
ELDXs have failed on me every time. I won't use them on anything but paper. I'm glad you've had good luck with them. Thanks for the vid.
Nice Job- looks like fun!