I would probably disrespectfully disagree with the 99% thing for the way I hunt and the shots I take and most of my deer have been killed with .308's and 30-06's with 150 and 165 grain bullets. The ones that stopped those bullets have been big bodied, fully mature deer in the mountains at quartering to angles. Typically, in the nastiest terrain imaginable. You have to take what you can get when you only get to see them for a couple of seconds in the woods. And surprising, they will occasionally (has happened to me a few times) tote that 165 grain bullet for 75 yards which might as well be a mile when that 75-100 yards is through a nasty, mountain cutover. And with no exit hole, it is crazily difficult to find one that went ONLY that far. I know everybody hunts different situations and such, but those experiences are what have led me to the Barnes bullets (and Partitions before that) for my WOODS hunting.

On the contrary, now that I have been blessed with some big crop field to shoot across and such, I seriously doubt any Barnes bullets will end up being carried in my field guns the more I study. If I take a shot at one at 300 or 400 yards, I'm gonna be shooting at ribs on an essentially broadside, perfectly still shot or else I ain't shooting. He/she can just live to see another day otherwise. Ribs are way different than shoulders, hips, long distances of entrails, or all of the above often. I say all of that to say...I very much understand both trains of thought depending on the variables of your hunts.