Yep Chap your right about the .50 caliber Rb being a little too dicey. It can work well but it sometimes does not. It's just not a big enough hole and the hole covers over with fat, and hide quickly so blood trails are faint or non existant. My deer rifles in 1/66 twist now shoot the 270 Buffalo Ball-et or a PowerBelt with ok accuracy and I don't push em real fast. The 270 grain ball-et hp has quite a performance increaseover the patched rb in my opinion. I still shoot em a bunch; but not at deer anymore and if I did it would be 50 yard head shots.

My RMC flinter is a 1/28 twist and am shooting the .452 300 xtp over 90-100 grains of 3f Goex. I also will be switching to the 300 grain Gold Dots when the box is empty; assuming they group well and expand well enough for me. Everything about that bullet is just dandy; high BC. good weight and energy; designed for the velocity my flinter would push them; bonded design and .452 flat base.