Hmmm, six of one/half a dozen of the other, perhaps?

Epansion and penetration makes me most confident which is why I choose the Nosler Partition. It's not as "devastating" as a BT after going through the ribs nor does it penetrate as narrowly as a Barnes X but it offers the best of both worlds, IMO.

This was my first year hunting with a Hornady Interbond which is very similar to a BT and it performed just as I expected; explosively. I was forced to make a shoulder shot (quartering towards). It destroyed the shoulder while fragmenting into many pieces, left a bassball size hole in the ribs, turned the vitals into muck and a few peices lodged into the opposite side under the hide. Bottom line, it did a wonderfully explosive job. Ruined a good amount of meat in the process though. The same shot with a Partition would have been much cleaner. The deer is still dead as dead can be but I would have been more confident going out hunting with Partitions (and I think that's justified in this case because it would have been a cleaner kill with no fear of disintegration on the shoulder). I can totally appreciate why people prefer the explosive terminal behavior of BT's but a lot of it has to do with what you feel most confident with.