The last 175 grain bullet I would want to shoot deer with out of a 7Mag would be the nosler parition. Talk about a recipe for penciling through, I can't think of a bullet that is more apt to do so than that 175 NP. Regarding the Core-lokts my brother has over 100 deer to his credit with one bullet and one bullet only -the 140 grain 7mm out of a 7mm-08. I've witnessed multitudes of his kills and have killed deer with this load myself. These bullets are not crap, they are exceptionally reliable in their performance.