I bought into the hype about Barnes bullets and decided to try them this year in my .50 cal Encore. Not often do things do as advertised, but these sure did. I had a close shot on a nice little buck I stalked up on. It was a hard quartering away shot. I shot behind the last rib trying to exit near the off shoulder. At the shot the deer lurched and ran about 10 yards. The damage was unbelieveable. That bullet did major internal damage before exiting the rib cage and then smashing the leg on the far side. As they picture in the ads, a perfect six petal mushroom. Oh, and I get about a 1 1/2 inch group at 100 yards.