well, I know the debate on here has been quite controversial with ballistic tips and hunting so I thought Id share my story. I hunted Minnesota's opening day of rifle season this past Sat and harvested an impressive (for me anyway) 235 lb whitetail. I did not have the perfect broadside standing still shot we all like to have but I still made a lethal shot that dropped him where he stood. I've heard all the stories about "Ballistic tips fragment too easy" yada yada yada. Well I found out first hand that you can shoot a 200+ lb deer in the shoulder quartering to you and still drive the bullet down through the vitals, and exit near the last rib on the other side. I understand that some people may have gotten a "bad" bullet but to say "ALL" ballistic tips will not perform on deer sized game IMHO has been disproved. I shot this deer with my 7mm Rem mag with 140 gr Nosler BT, and 66.5 gr of RL 22 at 161 yards