I shoot the 250 grain version in my Encore with 100 grains of Pyrodex and I've had excellent results with them. My Daughter, both Sons and my Dad also use the same loads in their Encores and Omagas and none of us havehad a complaint ye, in the several years we've used them. This season my oldest son shot a small buck that was slightly qartering towards him. The bullet entered in the shouder, passed through the chest cavity and stopped just under the skin on the far side. I was very surprised to find that the bullet had NOT mushroomed! Instead it appeared that the tip had only folded over and I'm sure there wouldnt have been a impressive blood trail to follow..... however, the buck dropped in his tracks so no tracking was needed.