Price matters to practice a lot, but price does matter for hunting, since we don't shoot lots of bullets for hunting. I use Nosler Partition HG Protected Point 300g bullets with a crusted rib sabot, about a $1 each. They go all the way thru, are accurate and mushroom perfect.

For my new Savage 10MLI have triedabout 10different bullets that have high ballistic coefficients for additional range:

Hornady XTP Mag 300g
TC SW Black sabot 300g
TC SW easy glide 300g
TC SW bonded easy glide 300g
Knight Ultimate Slam 290g
Barnes TMZ 290g
Harvester Scorpion PT 300g
Parker Ballistic Extreme 275g

Of those 9 bullets I shot them all at the same recommened powder and the best groups were the TC SW black sabot and the Parker Ballistic Extreme. I will use the Ballistic Extreme for hunting with my Savage. They are accurate, and loose only 10% of their weight and expand perfectly in pictures and reports I have see and read. So expensive or cheap bullet, they are the thing that must do the job, awell placed bullet in the boiler room will do the job all the time every time, it makes little difference what bulletyou use for boiler room shots, but shots that are "less than perfect", hitting shoulders or large bones then a bonded bullet or well constructed bullet makes a huge difference, holding together, getting past the bone and into the chest cavity. Accuracy is number#1, since if you don't hit what your aiming, then nothing else matter,
#2 is penetration
#3 is expansion
You want a bullet that does all 3, so shoot what is accurate in your gun (shoot a variety, not what your buddy recommends, do what is accurate),

Make shure the bullet willpenetrate, read reports on the bullet or try a basic penetration test into sand or packed top soil in a 5 gallon bucket. If a bullet fragments in this media, it will tend to fragment in flesh/bone.

expansion, you want excellent expansion so look for bullets with large HP or ballistic tips over a hollow points.

Chap Gleason