I shoot all reloads so whatever bullet/powder combo I have loaded up and sighted in is what I use regardless of the range. Sometimes its a premium sometimes just a "good" bullet. Either way I generally have no worries in my mind about the outcome if I do my part, I am always interested however in the actual terminal performance, I always have to take a close look at the wound channel etc. just because I want to know. I've always had good luck with Nosler Partitions & Ballistic Tips, Hornady Inter-loks, Rem Cor-lokts, Barnes X's. Are the higher end bullets necessary, nope not for the vast majority of situations, do you get a performance penalty for using them, nope and since I reload I don't have to pay the super-premium price for loaded ammo, thus I can shoot the good to better bullets for the same or less than buying standard factory loads. I've been expiramenting with the Barnes TSX's in my AR/.223, they shoot great, just haven't been able to line up the piggy to test the performance, saw him once but so far thats it.