These new generation ballistic tips are some of the best deer bullets ever made. I killed alarge mule deer with a 130 gr. .270 ballistic tip the first year they came out (1984?). These bullets, in the red and green box,were very marginal on penetration.I joked that they should have a warning on the box "Danger - High Explosives". Newer ones have gone through several improvements, as I understand it - each subsequent version was a little tougher than the last. Congrats on a very nice buck.