Thread: My Shrunken Wood... need advice on No 4 Enfield.

Add the aluminium / wood cored tip to the wish list. Made the bullet tumble after a few inches penetration so less need for soft point. But before we vilify the Empire it must be said that all spitzers tend to tumble on impact as they're inherently tail-heavy - the Mk VII extremely so of course. The light tip was ostensibly designed for accuracy but it's beyond my understanding exactly how the more rearward centre of gravity makes a Mk VII more accurate, but that it does so seems to be the general consensus.

Flat vs boat tail makes no real difference to ballistic coefficient at normal hunting distances and you are moving centre of gravity forward by having a boat tail. If you were reloading, a flat-bottom 180grain spitzer with plastic tip and hollow point is probably the closest you'd get to a Mk VII, at least as far as rearward centre of gravity goes. If reloading for a very worn .303 maybe paper patching .308 spitzers may be a desperate but workable way to go.