I've used ABLR on close range (50-70 yards) on mule deer and at ~125 yards on elk. The bullets (launched from a 7WSM) killed quite efficiently. I Can't say that the mulies or the elk were any deader than those shot with Partitions or with AccuBonds, but maybe they were a "little more dead."
I purchased a couple of boxes when they were first released that had three or four in each box sans tips or with the tips falling out. Being in the Great White North, there wasn't much Nosler was prepared to do, though they did send me a couple of Nosler caps. I used the "tipless (untipped?)...