I used the .270 140 Ballistic tip exclusively for many years from my .270 Win. My velocity was at 2850 . I neck shot many whitetail and mule deer with it and never failed to have an exit wound after smashing the neck and spine. I think you will be just fine!!

I have taken around 30 head of big game including pronghorn,bighorn,muledeer and whitetails(several in excess of 300lbs live weight)using the 140gr ballistic tip out of my 7mmstw's with a muzzle velocity of 3500fps.I use lung shots so meat damage is minimal.Kills are very quick as not one animal has covered 50 yards after being shot.Most of the complaints about ballistic tips come from people that tried the original versions which were very soft,or from people that have not used them at all and are repeating rumors.The ballistic tip line has been changed over the years with some particular bullets having up to four different versions.

That's a pretty fragile bullet for such a violent cartridge. You should probably consider something a bit tougher like a Partition for that cartridge.



In my experience that Ballistic Tips destroy way too much meat in high velocity firearms. I only use them now in my Encore 308 Pistol with the 15" barrel. In all other firearms I use Partitions for Whitetail and all other "medium" game.



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Joe; I'm sure you will gets lots of help with this here. Suffice to say, that for deer and antelope, you'll be fine. Just be prepared for lots of meat damage (that's never bothered me, I'm not really a meat hunter) and there's always an outside chance of bullet "blowup" if you hit bone at close ranges, but I expect the antelope will be at longer ranges. But like I said, you can probably use wadded up paper on those two animals and get away with it. I take it you're using a 130gr? jorge