Everything taken into consideration. BC,(short and long range accuracy), and terminal performance. the barnes ML bullets IMHO are the best you can buy.the only one i have read a "few" bad reviews on are the spit fire MZ and not expanding occasionally at close range. which i feel is due to it's very small hollow point.i like the gold dots and if i lived where all of my shots were 150 yds or less the .250 gr would be all i needed.i have some 300gr gold dots i am going to try and if i can get them to group out to 200 yds, that will be the bullet i use, if not i will use a Barnes bullet to hunt and gold dots to practice with.