agreed
My limited experience with older .30/180 ballistic tips is the same, they seem a bit soft for a 180, but they seem an ideal whitetail bullet, since their are no elk here in AL, I'd like to find a "stash" of the older, 100 count red trimmed boxes, cause my Savage Hog Rifle seems to love'em. You don't really need a .30/180 to take Bambi, but it's hard to argue with the results.
A pal shot 7mm/140 (?) from a Rem &mm Mag, and it was absolutely destructive at 3100 fps plus, I don't know that I've ever seen the equal in exit wounds on our whitetails. My limited experience with .270/130 was not as dramatic, but my velocity was only at about 2850. The .270/130 Ballistic Tip is the most accurate bullet in my Wally World Rem 700 ADL, but I have trouble getting high velocity from its 22" tube.
Another pal hates'em, claims he loses deer (truth), but I suspect some poor shooting involved. The one I helped him recover, was not hit well....but it was still the bullets fault...he switched to Patitions this year and had a DRT, now he's sure the B-Tip is no good!!!
Finally, I have read from some scribes they consider the B-tip in an appropriate weight as the "ideal" whitetail bullet, one noteable being John Barsness about 7-8 years ago or so. I've found them very accurate in about any rifle I've tried them in. But.....the cost per 50 is a bit high, and 100 count boxes of standard flat base spitzers from others seem a better bargain, especially for the distances involved in woods shooting deer around here.