Not a personal favorite for me but many people love them. They will produce some of the quickest dropped in their tracks kills you have ever seen BUT they rarely exit a deer in a caliber as small as a 243. Meaning? If the deer does run you will have only a tiny 24 caliber entrance hole to produce a blood trail. Also ballistic tips (which are basically just a hollow point with a plastic insert in the tip) expand violently on impact. Meaning? They really hit hard but at the expense of consistent penetration.

A buddy of mine shot a buck last week with a 140 grain ballistic tip out of a 7mm-08. Shot distance was 45 yards from a rested position in a shooting house. The deer hit the ground like a sack of wet cement at the shot. My buddy gathered up his stuff and climbed out of the shooting house and was stunned to find the deer....GONE! Didn't see which way it ran and it left no blood trail. He and his brothers spent all that day looking and he NEVER found that deer. He threw the ballistic tips away. Unfortunately this is not a isolated case with my friends. Another lost the biggest buck he ever saw after a broadside bullet in the shoulder with a 150 grain 30-06 ballistic tip failed to put him down and left no blood trail. I know there are people who will post on here that claim 100's of kills with BT bullets without a hint of a problem. They will also tell you that anyone that does have a problem with them just can't put a bullet in the proper place. Well I can't speak for their personal kill record but I can assure you that most of the people I know no longer use them due to well hit deer that were never recovered. And these people can definately shoot.

Whatever you choose however I would stick to the heavier 243 bullets like James B and m.t.hands advised. Those 50 or 55 grain 243 bullets were designed for groundhogs not deer.