Prvi Partizan's 55-grain soft point is a conventional hunting load for shooters who want a standard lead-core bullet in the .22-250. The bullet is a soft point, a lead-core bullet in a copper jacket with lead exposed at the nose. It leaves the muzzle at 3,674 fps with 1,644 ft-lbs of energy.

Compared with Remington's 55-grain High Performance Rifle PSP, the Prvi Partizan is the same load at the muzzle. The Remington leaves 6 fps faster with 10 more ft-lbs, and the two kick the same in the same rifle. Compared with Federal's 55-grain Power-Shok JSP, the Prvi Partizan starts 24 fps faster and carries 17 more ft-lbs at the muzzle. The Federal kicks about 1 percent less in the same rifle, a difference too small to feel.

Buy the Prvi Partizan if you want a conventional 55-grain soft point with the same muzzle speed and recoil as the Remington and Federal loads. Pick Remington's High Performance Rifle PSP or Federal's Power-Shok if you want the same kind of load from a maker that lists it for small game. Pick Barnes's 50-grain VOR-TX TSX if you want a copper bullet with no lead core and lighter recoil. Pick Winchester's Super-X 64-grain Power-Point if you want a heavier bullet from the line Winchester markets for whitetail and big game; it leaves the muzzle 174 fps slower. For varmints, Federal's Varmint & Predator 55-grain V-Max is a polymer-tipped bullet of the same weight that Federal markets for predators and varmints.