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@grandpamac - "Projectiles with a G1 BC of less than 0.5 do not fall harmlessly to the ground 30 metres in front of the muzzle" - you can expect to be struck by a serious sized sized lightning bolt sent by the gods of long range ballisitics for such heresy! ��

Greetings @Steelisreal,
It is overcast and rainy here in HB today so have been keeping away from open spaces and hill tops. I new a couple of chaps who were skin hunters after the war for a decade or so either full or part time. They both used Mk VII amunition in a .303 BC around 0.4. Talking to one of them I asked if he hollow pointed his projectiles as was talked about at the time. He said he had tried it but noted no practical difference. He also said that the projectles usually tumbled and fragmented and he was forever skinning his knuckles on the fragments as he was punching off the skin. A declning number of us will know thar the Mark VII projectile had an aluminium or fibre tip of some sort inside the jacket ahead of the lead core. I suspect that this was done to improve the BC for long range machine gun barages early in WW1 but it did make the projectile less stable, hence the tumbling. I doubt if performance on deer was even considered by the Generals. Just shows what can be done with projectiles that some consider useless.
Regards Grandpamac.

I have long settled on 120grn Sierra pro hunter pills in the model 7's short barrel,simply brilliant.