Aguila markets its 60-grain soft point for deer hunting. The bullet is a soft point, a lead-core bullet in a copper jacket with lead exposed at the nose. At 60 grains it is heavier than the common 55-grain .22-250 loads, and it leaves the muzzle at 3,240 fps with 1,398 ft-lbs of energy, the slowest start of the .22-250 hunting loads it competes with.

Compared with Winchester's Super-X 64-grain Power-Point, from a line Winchester markets for whitetail and big game, the Aguila starts 260 fps slower and carries 343 fewer ft-lbs at the muzzle. It kicks less than the Winchester in the same rifle, and that is its main advantage over it. Compared with Remington's 55-grain High Performance Rifle PSP, the Aguila starts 440 fps slower with 256 fewer ft-lbs at the muzzle. The two kick almost the same: the Aguila about 2 percent harder in the same rifle.

Buy the Aguila if you want a 60-grain soft point for deer, as Aguila markets it, with recoil close to a 55-grain load. Pick the Winchester if you want its heavier bullet and faster start and don't mind more kick. Pick the Remington if you want a lighter, much faster bullet for the small game Remington lists it for. For varmints, Federal's Varmint & Predator 55-grain V-Max is a polymer-tipped bullet that Federal markets for predators and varmints, and it leaves the muzzle 430 fps faster than the Aguila.