I have had mixed results with the XTP. I have killed six deer with my Encore shooting XTP's with 100 grains of pellets. I had never found a blood trail with the first 6 deer I shot. Luckily they didn't go far and I was able to find them. One I shot right behind the shoulder and tracked her for over 60 yards in the snow and not a drop of blood. Once she jumped a small creek she started bleeding and didn't go far. Had it not been for the snow I would have never found her. I could follow her tracks until she bled. This year i shot a doe at about 100 yard and she dropped on her front end and then hobbled off dragging her front leg, barley able to stand. We never found blood and never found the deer. After that I switched to a Barnes bullet and killed 2 deer. So far both of them had a good blood trail. I recovered a bullet from one that was mushroomed perfect and retained almost all it's weight.