It is only a sample of one, but I had a bad experience with a 120 red tip from a 7mm-08 a few years ago. I shot a small buck from the ground at about 20 yards with a handload of varget and a 120 grain NBT. The deer turned and ran out of sight like I missed him. Luckily for me there was a light snow/frost on the leaves and I could follow his footprints from the hair at the impact site down to where I eventually found him. It was downhill about 125 yards from the shot location. There was not a single drop of blood the entire way. When I found him there was nasty frothy stuff coming from his nose. Small hole in and out through the lungs. Without snow, I would have been lucky to find him. I almost stepped on him when I finally found him camouflaged behind a tree, against a log. The load shoots very well from my gun and was traveling at about 3K fps. I expected a little better performance. I bought some more of the blue tips and hope to put them to use again with better results.
