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Killed more deer than I can remember using Sierra 85 hpbt, Nosler 95 BT, and a bunch of Hornady 105’s both Amax and bthp. All kill deer deader than fried chicken, never an issue with any of the above bullets.
Would pick the 95 BT as an “all rounder” if I had to pick only one.
Topic makes me laugh when I think of all the deer that die annually with arrows stuck in their ribs, no reason on earth to believe a .243 isn’t enough gun, just shoot straight like anything else.
Also laugh at the notion a bullet is somehow a failure while the shooter has a dead deer at his feet examining “wound channels”

How far those feet had to travel to begin that examination is pretty important.

I hunted coyotes for many years with a 240 WBY using 95 and 100 grain Nosler Partitions. Was hunting in pig country a lot, so I used this gun in case I came across a piggy. Shot a few deer with the 95, none with the 100, but in my experience with coyotes the 95 grainer always exited with much less damage and a smaller exit hole than did the 100 grainer. Both shot very accurately. I often wondered if the 95 bullet was harder than the 100.

Don’t like traveling, bust their shoulders, noses will be in the dirt where they stood, lung shoot em and they’ll do some distance regardless of caliber.

I suspect that the 95 was being pushed enough faster that it caused it to always shed the entire front core then fold back tight on the partition. That makes them work about like a wadcutter at the end of the penetration path.

Those UltraBonded sound about like the performance of the Federal Fusion factory load. Good stuff.....

100g Hornady flat base is a poor man's partition, very accurate bullet.

Next would be the 95g partition.

We have killed a lot of BIG deer and hogs with the 100g Hornady BTSP and Flat base.

In my rifles, the 95g partition is more accurate and easier to tune than the 100g partition.

R#26 gets a guy 150-200 fps more velocity in a 243 or 6 Remington, figure 3250 to 3300, puts it very close to a 25/06 std loads.