a good friend of mine has been using 295gr. hp powerbelts for 7 yrs. now and has killed alot of deer with them.they load easy and are accurate ln his encore, he uses 2 t7 pellets.out of about 15 deer he's shot we've failed to find 3 deer,of the others not one powerbelt has had a pass thru on deer,all of his shots were behind the shoulder on the recovered deer.some made it to the opposing hide and some stopped inside the ribcage expanded to the size of a 50 cent piece.after seeing this i 'd use just about any bullet before i'll use them.there's alot of bullets that are better at half the price.jmho.....karl