This whole thing is catering to fads...........and currently if you do not have a plastic tip on your bullets, well they just ain't pretty enough.
The regular Barnes X type bullets are long for caliber and weight anyways due to the homogenous copper alloy they are made of....longer than conventional bullets with lead cores. The plastic tip just would make an already long bullet....longer.
The price of the newest offering, the MRX, and the packaging in 20's will ensure that I never buy any. The Regular TSX are excellent bullets and shoot well in my rifles, plus they are not as finicky as the old X bullets which just wouldn't shoot in some rifles.
Much of the hype about various designs of hunting bullet is just that.....hype...........it has everyone believing they need exceptionally high BC's, boattails, etc when the average guy still shoots his deer at a 100 yards and rarely takes (or maybe I should say isn't capable of making) a 300 yard shot. The old flat base spire point design is all that is needed for all but the ultra long range stuff and even some of those guys are finding that the flat base bullets prove to be more consistantly accurate.
But hey, if you feel you have to have pretty bullets with colored plastic tips and a boattail design go for it. Who am I to stop you.
