Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Handguns 44 Magnum or 45 Colt. Which one would you pick?

12BHN is plenty hard for a deer bullet. The point is that it allows the nose to deform and expand, which knocks the shoulder out of the equation.

That "pampered" bullet illustrates the point precisely. It passed through 16" of ballistic test media without putting any wear on the shoulder. The XTP next to it went 9" and expanded to 0.64".