My whelen doesn't like 225 partitions either. It will keep 250 grain hornady spt, 250 speer spt, 250 a-frames, and 250 barnes originals on a 3 x 5 steel plate @ 300 yds. All with 57 grs of RL 15 and without adjusting the scope. I hunt with the speers because of the higher b.c.

"If all the good luck and all the bad luck I've had were put together, I reckon it'd make the biggest damned pile of luck in the world." Charlie Goodnight