I consider them indespensible during deer season. I shoot an -06 and shoot the 150's from the stand on the edge of a big field or the 165's/168's all other times. The 40+ deer I haveshot with these bullets have probably moved a COMBINED distance of 25 yards. They just usually fall over in a heap - dead as a doornail. Headshots, neckshots, lungers, heart - no matter....just flop and one or two kicks of the legs. To be honest I have also loaded Speer, Sierra and Hornady not to mention Nosler partitions and have had good performance - but a trip to Wyoming in 1991 for muleys got me into long range thinking and I have never looked back I am interested in the Accu-bonds from Nosler but have never shot them....considering how devastating the ballistic tips are I really see no resaon.