Nosler .22

[oldpink]

Funny...their "ballistic tip" is said to RESIST deformation.  And everyone thought it was to help expansion.  No wonder these pellets are gonna not so good

You have completely misapprehended the purpose of the Ballistic Tip projectile, a Nosler invention.
The purpose is not to resist deformation on the target at all.
It was conceived for two purposes:
1) To provide a much more pointed, aerodynamic expanding projectile than can ever be created with conventional softpoint spitzers
2) The polycarbonate material of the Ballistic Tip resists deformation, but only within the gun magazine, again something that conventional softpoint spitzers are very prone to, with the last round in a five-round box magazine getting badly battered the most, since it is the last to be fired.
The Ballistic Tip has a long track record since its inception as one of the most easily expanding projectiles out there, very suitable for light, thin-skinned game animals.
As a matter of fact, the one complaint I have ever read about them is that they tend to not penetrate nearly as well on tougher, thicker-skinned animals, something for which Nosler's original innovation, the Partition, is to this day recognized as one of the most uniquely successful bullets for that purpose.
The tip in these pellets will probably work much as the tips in the much loved Predator Polymag pellets, which have now proven to be one of the best pellets out there for terminal performance.
Nosler has been in the hunting projectile business for quite some time now.
I'm pretty sure they know what they're doing at this point, hyper-critical speculation to the contrary.

[aack73]

sounds good to me pink. i know in my 17 hmr those ballistic tips get some crazy expansion.   i think the real trial at hand will be accuracy in a given pellet gun. i hope they are off the charts.