Since the 180 Bal Tips are not made any more I am going to guess they were discontinued do to their explosive nature. A short time after they were discontinued the Accubond came out.

I have never shot anything with the 180 Bal Tip. I have however used the 180's and 200 grain Accubonds for lots of deer (bang flop) and my wife took a 1600pound buffalo through the skull and it was also a bang flop.

Exit wounds on deer were one inch

I like the bal tip for checking POI so I use less Accubonds which cost a lot more.

Neal