I have found Ballistic Tips a little to explosive for me, years ago I almost lost a deer that I shot with a 25-06 using 120gr. B.T.'s. The bullet pretty much blew up, left a huge hole on the intrance side of the deer. I was very disappointed with the bullets performance, needless to say I have not used them since. My brother did however use them with alot of sucsess in a 7x57 Mauser. So I would say as long as you are not pushing a lot of velocity they are probably a good bullet, but get up arround 3000 fps, use something else. JMO.