10.5" here, I use IMI 77gr for HD. I get the would cavities I want and I don't have to worry too much of bullet liability once it hits exterior walls.
IMHO, any modern SD cartridge will work. I want a bullet designed to mushroom consistently with proper velocity. I don't want to rely on a variable like yaw. Others I would trust are 64 gold dots, 75gr gold dots, 75gr T2 TAP, 64gr Fusion, CBC 77gr, MK262, MK318. There are more, but you get the idea, modern bullets.
Shorter than 10" you start losing a lot of velocity. To keep the velocity in the proper expansion range, 64 gold dots, 64gr Fusion or 50gr TSX would be better choices. Even with those, a very short barrel, 7-8", might not give you the velocity needed to get proper expansion or not very far.