I've been shooting a 25.06 for the past 15 seasons. The Winchester Silvertip Ballistic tip in 115 grains is a tack driving death bullet for whitetails.
My Browning A Bolt II Stalker will do legitimate 1/2" groups at 100 yards with them and those Silvertips do a great job of penetration and leaving a good blood trail. I guess they penetrate enough, never recovered a bullet from a deer. Always pass through leaving a great gushing blood trail.
I tried the Nosler partitions mentioned above, they killed deer too but left very little blood trail so I tried Winchester and have been sold ever since.