hunt12ga

Just going to add my two cents in here - just to pass some information. I know and i agree that the XTP probably has harvested more deer tham any other bullet, but just to add this to the mix - Speer is making a bullet called the Deep Curl, it is a hunting bullet and it was formerly called a Gold Dot. The thing about this bullet is that it is bonded and has a device insterted in the lead to help control expansion. I kinda have dubbed it a "poor man's Nosler"

I use to shoot a lot of Hornady's and every once in awhile i would find the copper stipped from the lead. The copper would be just under the skin on the enterance side and the lead would continue on but sometimes even then it would even break up.

Trying to show you what i mean you might look at these pictures. The first one is where i shot some Gold Dots/Deep Curl bullets into a saturated soil (clay) water bar trying to destroy or strip the copper. Did not work with the Speers - but i tried...



This second picture i repeated the shots using XTP's...



You can see some of the XTP's turned themselves inside out - not all but some...

Again the XTP's have been highly successful and they certainly have worked but I really believe the Gold Dot/Deep Curl is a more dependable bullet in the worst conditions.

I shoot or did shoot the .452/250 grain for whitetails - complete pass throughs most of the time, and the .452/300 grain for elk - and of course the 300 could be used for whitetail also and it has a BC of .232. It is a shooter - the pointy SST/SW has a BC of .250

Again just my opinion...