Well you'll note that I selected a 150 gr bullet in .308 for my examples as I won't disagree him. As someone pointed out round nose bullets tend to be heavy for caliber and in larger calibers >.25are generally constructed heavier than necessary for deer which I feel accounts for the problem more than than the bullet design. I also agree that unless you have a rifle that just really shoots the RN exceptionally well or for some other reason you have a bunch of RN bullets then there is little real advantage to using them as I don't buy them boring thru trees and brush that much better, but to your original point if I was out of components and there were was a box of RN available I would be hunting them without much concern.