I used to use one for whitetail deer hunting. From my experience, the use of premium bullets is a waste of money and good deer meat. Mainly from lost deer! I use Nosler Partitions in all my deer cartridges and found that the partition in the 6.5x55 does not open well at the closer ranges. I got a lot of pass throughs at less than 100 yards.

I use a Winchester M70 in .243 with the 100gr. partition now.

I still do have a Swedish carbine that I load standard Sierra and Hornady bullets with IMR4350 powder. At closer ranges, they seem to open better and give quicker kills.