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Nose Construction

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Nose construction describes the many variations encountered on all types of ammunition, for example:

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Open point bullets (soft point, hollow point, and semijacketed bullets) offer opportunities to identity the manufacturer or source based on the construction of nose cavities. The details of the interface between jacket, core, and cavity are often proprietary in nature and readily observable.

Nose Cavity Details of
Open Point Bullets
Details Type

Serrations in the nose portion of the bullet jacket.

Silver tip

“Petals” of jacket material folded into the cavity to help retain the core within the jacket even after impact with a target.

Hollow point

Center-post design

Hydra-Shok

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