racks-n-beards: I may be wrong, but I think I may have used a couple of words that misled you. The words were, "blow up"; sproulman used the word, "explosive".That is speaking of the terminal performance of a light-jacketed bullet driven at high velocities when it hits the animal. It doesn't mean it's dangerous to the shooter or the weapon.
As has been mentioned, XTP's are a well-constructed jacketed hollow point bullet that can withstand the velocities produced in a magnum handgun (44 mag. for example), and also the velocities produced by approx. 100 grain ML charges. It's when the charges start going over 100 grains or so, and the velocities begin approaching 2400 fps or so, that most holow point bullets will start to go to pieces ("blow up") when they hit an animal the size of a hog, a deer or larger. There are probably exceptions to this, and your results may vary. From all I've heard and read, a 240 gr XTP ahead of 100 gr T7 is a very good load for whitetails. It should give good penetration AND good expansion.

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