I started off with the Hornadys for my Encore and they shot good and I killed several deer with them. One thing I noticed right away is little to no blood trail. Which was fine if you could watch the deer but if it ran into a woods or tall grass it was trouble. I read on here and other sites that the XTP's aren't designed to go as fast as the ML shoots them and they don't expand right on impact, and sometimes can explode into peices. I swithced to Barnes and have had better luck, although I did shoot a buck at about 170 yards last year that I did not find. I don't think the bullet itself was the issue but it did happen. I will try to find some pics but I recovered two barnes bullets from deer I shot last year and the year before and they expanded perfectly. You could not have made them any more perfect if you tried.