I also have NEVER shot a Powerbelt and Im a CVA shooter, so I cant say one way or the other if there good or bad. I do however shoot only 240gr XTP Mag's (Hornady) I have shot many many Deer with them and never lost a Deer (knock wood) with them. I pride myself in only taking the best shot possible and 99% of my shots are center Lung Shot, the rest Heart or high low Lung. I have had Deer Drop on the spot and run 100yds with the exact same shot on them, some entrance and exit holes are huge others are normal, so go figure, No 2 shots are ever the same results. Also blood trails very from excellant to drops, but as the Winter goes on the Deer put on a Good Fat reserve here in the North so a Deer with a-lot of Fat will plug up the exit and entrance holes in a hurry and no matter what bullet your using you'll sometimes get no blood trail.
I also read Sabotloader's thread on (recovering bullets) and others where the Hornady XTP's come apart, but still for me they have always done there job. I believe any Bullet will do it's job if you do your's and put it where it's suppos-to-be. No Deer will Live with a Bullet through the Lungs or Heart and they wont travel far. The guy's that claim they hit the Animal through the Lungs or Heart and they never recovered them, or did'nt have a bloodtrail could'nt have hit them in a leathal spot, if they did they would have found them.
I have been on many a Tracking Job where the shooter claimed to hit the animal in a good spot and when and if the animal was recovered I never once saw the shot that the shooted reported. Most if not all of them were through the Paunch or back to far or too far forward and some were even Leg Shot! I have never seen a Lung look like a Leg!!!!
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