My brother reloads his own shells. He made a believer out of me a couple of months ago. I shot some Hornaday factor shells and shot a 4" group at 150 yds. Then he gave some of his reloads. Shot a 2" group with them. But to get to the point, up untill 2 weeks ago he was using ballistic tips. He shot a 10 pointer with his snipper rifle and the deer ran off. He found lots of urine and feces and just a couple of drops of blood. Never found the deer. The next day he shot a doe... Same thing, but he found this one. The bullet penetrated and exploded but didn't exit. He had to use his dog to track this one down. Now he says he'll never use ballistic tips again. It wasn't from lack of powder either. He loaded them hot.
!By the way, Heck of deer you got there... Both of em!
To heck with work, lets go fishing.