Your job is buying those rounds due to price.

Back in the day they were probably state of the art, but the newer designs such as the DPX and Gold Dot work better.

In gelatin tests we did at our range both of these loads didn't really expand much in the heavy clothing tests.
The Remington 125gr +P started to expand, shed the mushroom leaving it behind looking like a lead washer, which turned the bullet into basically a semi-jacketed wadcutter. The bullet then penetrated the 18" block and went about 20 yards dropping to the ground.