The Nosler ballistic tip 140gr in .284 is a great bullet in my 7mm-08, I have never tried it in any of the various 7 mags that I had over the years but at 7mm08 velocities it preforms just fine, have taken a couple deer and 1 moose with that combo.
The fact that your doe shot with a 30-30 went only 80 yards and left a good blood trail and you recovered the bullet would say that it preformed, no it's not a perfect mushroom, I have recovered about 20 bullets over the years from various animals in calibers from 270 on up to 338 and very few of them are perfect like the manufacture shows in their pictures, but all the animals were very dead.
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