Narrowing down bullet choice for Deer/Elk

[stokesrj]

I voted for the Nosler Partition just because I've killed far more game with it than with the Barnes but they are both good choices. One of my sons brought his 6.5x55 with him on a trip to Africa a few years ago. He was shooting the 120 grain Barnes at about 2,500 fps. He shot 17 head of game and all were one shot kills. However, I will say that at the longer ranges, >400 yards they acted much like solids, still killed well, but you would see a dust cloud kick up behind the animal that looked like it had barely slowed the bullet down. Often you would hear a long whine of a ricochet too. Some times the animals would run 20 yards or so but were down in seconds and easy to recover.
Bob