just depending on what you want the bullet to do. if you want to be able to get virtually all the meat use a bonded bullet such as winchesters accubond or remingtons scirocco bonded bullets. which a soft pointed bullet would also do the same such as core-lokts and super x. if you want a bullet for deer instant stopping power then i would shoot a nosler ballistic tip. these will sometimes mess up a shoulder of meat but when they hit the deer goes down. you can get em in winchester, remington, federal, a lot of factory loads. with these if you never want the possibility of losing that buck of a lifetime, the ballistic tip is what you need. ive saw deer get shot in the butt with one before and it fell to the grouund dead.