I will weigh in on this topic, only b/c i am explosive bullet shooter when deer are on the menu. I usually only use fed. prem. BT for deer out of my 270 and 7 rem Mag. This year on a chance i tried the Hornady SST in 154GR out of my 7 Rem Mag. Main reason for the first in a long time they outshot my BT's at 100, 200 & 300 yards...so i just had to fly them this year. So pleased with my results i actually got 3 out of 4 of my hunting party to fling them as well (2 of which were 06 150 gr bullets). I won't go into to all the details but this bullet accounted for 5 animals of the 7 we took last week. The longest run was 150 yards through the left ham w a 06 and the blood trail was emmense (of course he got the Femral...lucky bugger) but still. The other 3 were shot in vitals and both blood and exits were very apparent. My buck took out the lungs/heart and damn near ripped the left shoulder clean off at 125 yards and never took a step. Now granted these weren't elk...but my deer tipped in at 300lbs dressed...so not a baby by any means. An the @ss shot buck tipped the scales at 250 mark dressed. Oh they don't work at close range that well, one buck was 35 yards and piled up in 25 yards...so I beg to differ. I have shot a BT style bullet at our large bodied wt and mulies for many years and if it don't put them down on the spot they rarely go far with a vital hit and the blodd trails is evident to a blind man. Hey take as you will but if you get a prem. bullet which is all BT's come in it will tear down a whiteail in short order and short and long ranges.

However if you take BJ advice to aim for the wheels...then stick to an interlock or parts...thats what they are made to do. However 8/10 say they aim H/L and the BT will put them down as quick maybe even quicker than those flat based bullets...with bigger holes=more blood.

We are still talking about whitetails aren't we..if not then disregard my comments.