The Ballistic tip is a horrible round for Elk. It expands to rapidly. I have seen Elk shot with them and the bullet only penetrate a few inches before disintegrating. If you are a Hornady fan and love copolymer tipped bullets I would shoot the Interbond. Excellent bullet and will hold up to Elk sized game and the BC is very high on that bullet. I really wish ammo manus. would not post the Trajectory of the round on the back of the boxes, they can be very misleading. They may be fairly close but you will need to shoot your gun with that load at yardages to determine where your gun will place a bullet. Do Not rely on the trajectory info on the back of the box! A little story: a hunter came into deer camp in Montana and claimed to be a big hunter and could shoot very well, so he said. I took to the practice range and at 200 yds he did very well. Showed him some pics of a nice 185" non-typ. Muley and he said he wanted it. Went out next day looking for it. During the drive to the area he was babbling about bullet drop out of his gun and how at X yardage his bullet will drop so much and have X FTLBS of energy. Impressed me. Well I find the buck feeding and range him at 428yds. He shoots, LOW, shoots again,LOW. I make him stop. The Deer finally runs off. He then exclaims, " the bullet box said I should be X inches low at 400, I do not understand!" After that I would not let him shoot at anything unless it was 200yds or less.
