Hornady ELD Match (Extremely Low Drag Match) projectiles are technologically advanced, enhanced accuracy target projectiles designed for superior performance in competitive shooting and hunting scenarios. Featuring Heat Shield tips with a perfect meplat (tip point), these projectiles combine numerous design features to deliver the highest-in-class ballistic coefficients, exceptional accuracy, and extreme consistency from projectile to projectile, and lot to lot.

Superior accuracy and industry-leading ballistic design have been achieved with the ELD Match projectile. An optimum secant ogive and boat tail design, along with the Heat Shield tip, produce a projectile with the highest possible ballistic coefficient in its class.

In 2012, Hornady engineers embarked on a mission to create a new projectile. The primary goal was to develop a hunting projectile that performed exceptionally well across all practical distances. While many projectiles work effectively from 0-400 yards, few excel beyond that, and none previously offered optimal performance at both conventional and extended ranges.

This led to the introduction of the Heat Shield tip, a single tip technology used in two distinct projectile lines. By extending your range, you never have to compromise on performance at any distance. Hornady engineers, utilising state-of-the-art aeroballistics software, Doppler radar, and decades of projectile performance knowledge, have developed an entirely new class of projectile for the discerning shooter.