Nice deer. Your experience with the XTP pretty well mirrors mine. The 300's, and the 240's.
I tried alot of different jacketed revolver bullets in my life. And my expansion was inconsistent at best with them.
I just shoot my cast 240 grain bullet now. I can play around a little bit with the alloy in order to get the expansion I want on the game I will be hunting.
I hunt deer with a 240 grain bullet cast from straight WW for the 44 magnum, and 45 Colt. And I use about 20.0 grains of 2400 in both cartridges. I usually get expanision of about 80 to 90 caliber. Plus they are a whole lot cheaper. Tom.
