6.5mm Bullets (.264)

Give your next 6.5 Creedmoor handload the accuracy and the terminal performance it needs to take down game from virtually any distance with the ELD-X projectile! This .264” diameter 143 grain bullet features Hornady’s own Heat Shield tip, which is made of polymer that won’t warp and deform as it’s violently heated by passing air molecules. Its unvarying meplat is complemented greatly by its extremely concentric Advanced Manufacturing Process jacket, aerodynamic secant ogive profile, and tapered base.

The ELD-X features the patented InterLock ring which mechanically binds its core and thick jacket together. As the result the bullet is able to retain no less than half of its weight as it plows into a target at higher velocities while still expanding significantly. At lower velocities the ELD-X’s Heat Shield tip drives inward to trigger even greater expansion, penetrating deeply while retaining up to 90 percent of its weight. Handloading takes too much time and care to let the end result hinge on an inferior bullet -- let Hornady’s peerless commitment to quality take your work to the next level!

This .264” diameter 140 grain bullet by Hornady will yield handloads with the precision usually afforded to surgical instruments, because it is an Extremely Low Drag Match. The ELD Match features its manufacturer’s revolutionary Heat Shield tip, a precisely formed spear of polymer which is totally immune to the aerodynamic heating it is subjected to at high velocities. As the result, this bullet’s meplat will always stay sharp and symmetrical so that you can group shots tighter than an investment banker’s lips while he’s on trial for money laundering.

The ELD Match further owes its gnat swatting accuracy to its secant ogive profile which greatly decreases its bearing surface, its virtually perfectly concentric AMP jacket that optimizes its rotational stability in flight, and the tapered base of its boat tail design. Hornady has even gone so far as to measure the ELD Match’s ballistic coefficient via Doppler radar to correct it to standard atmospheric conditions. So flat a trajectory, so much retained velocity downrange, and such superior resistance to wind drift will make your handloads the best ammo wherever you take them!

This is not loaded ammunition. These are component bullets, and they are only useful to handloaders.

Do you intend to load some 6.5 Grendel hunting ammunition? Solid plan. Let Hornady take care of the all-important bullet side of things courtesy of their famous InterLock!

The InterLock is a high-tech round nose soft point projectile. This 160 grain bullet takes its name from Hornady’s InterLock ring, which is an extension of the jacket that is embedded in the bullet’s lead core. This keeps the two components anchored tightly together, thus assuring the InterLock retains a high percentage of its weight even following high-velocity impact. The InterLock doubles down with a cannelure which does even more to prevent core/jacket separation.

The InterLock is designed to put down game fast. The jacket surrounding its blunt nose has skives, which direct reliable mushrooming even if the bullet strikes its target with very little energy. The jacket is additionally tapered to control reliable expansion as well. Hornady reports the 160 grain InterLock’s G1 BC at 0.283, and its sectional density at 0.328.