IMO the Hornady ammo is very good stuff and the bullets areaccurate, mushroom nicelyand hold together well. It is my second favorite bullet and first choice for factory ammo.

That said, I am a Nosler Ballistic Tip man all the way. I have taken lots of different critters with lots of calibers in lots of situations with them and never a bullet failure when appropriate for animal calibers are used.

Lastly....at $120 for some factory ammo to test, is reloading looking any better? You can create perfectly good ammo with inexpensive Lee reloading equipment.You only have to load 3 of each recipe to test. Do you have a friend or neighbor with a loading outfit you could use to work up a load for your gun? I have a friend that I allow to purchase his own components and use my equip. to "roll his own".