Need some help with Bullet choice 300 AAC

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Need some help from you all.
My Daughter's first year hunting was this past season.
Shes pretty small framed even for her age so I put together an AR in 300 Blk for her to use.
Right now the load in it is a 125 gr Sierra Pro Hunter.
Now with that said we never shot anything with it yet, but I have heard quite a few people saying that the Pro hunters dont expand well at the lower velocities of the 300 Blk.

Have done some reading and a lot are saying that the 110gr Barnes Tac-TX are some of the best due to expanding at lower velocities.
Do any of you all know of any others or is this my best bet.

Another reason I want to get something figured out for this is I will also be using a 300Blk for our Alternative season in a pistol length Barrel setup with an AR I am about to build.

So if the Barnes 110 Tac TX are the best im going to order a bunch of them and see what I can get but thought I would ask you all first.
 
115gr Lehigh Controlled Chaos for supersonic hunting loads and 190-220gr Maker REX for subsonic hunting. I built my now 9-year-old daughter a 10" 300 blk specifically for shooting bears with and she does great with it. I also have a 300blk and we've taken nearly 20 bears with them, to include a couple of grizz. About 30% of those kills were with subs. I'm getting a little bit under 2,200 fps with the 115gr from the 10".
 

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Small sample size but confident with Sierra's 110 gr HP if shots aren't much over 100 yards. After that, wound channels are smaller and blood trails longer than I'd prefer. No lost deer though. Got 2,100-2,200 fps out of a 10.5". Don't use 300 BLK anymore but if I did I'd be trying the 125 TMK.
 
I have shot a few 100-150 pound wild hogs with my blackout using the Barnes 110. I load it to 2400 fps in 16 inch ar barrel. All were shot under 100 yds and were pass through with good terminal performance. Hope this helps. I’m interested in trying the 125 tmk also
 
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