Sabotloader - do you suspect that the 300 grain Nosler would hold together without expanding at the close range you reported about, better then a 300 grain XTP at close range? Now I am not saying wet newspaper is flesh and bone, but I tested 300 grain XTP at 25 yards out of the Black Diamond XR with 100 grains of Triple Se7en 2f and that bullet expanded perfect. I have never tested the Nosler Partition that you like so well on anything because of their cost for one thing.

I have yet to shoot a deer with an XTP so I could not say that one will work better then the other. I have read a few reports of the 240 grains XTP splattering you might say, when compared to the 300 XTP grain. All I have done was test them in paper.