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My suspicion is that it all depends on where and what you hunt and what you hunt with. The bullet is a lot more important under .30 cal than over, and under expansion is a lot worse than over expansion, at least on whitetails.
There just ain't much there on a cross chest shot on a white tail, and they will travel a loooooooooooong ways when a bullet does not expand.
I see absolutely no need for premium bullets in a 7mm-08 for whitetail under east coast conditions. One of my buds uses a 7x57 with 154 grain Hornady RN for orchard pest control, and when she pulls the trigger, they go down. I've seen that bullet expand on hide, lungs, and nothing else, and I've seen it chew up a foot of pelvis and spine on a straight up the rump shot.
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