Flat head bullet

Flat head bullets are bullets with a flattened bullet head shape. They are made for a wide variety of purposes.

They are available as:

• Lead bullets without casing,
• as a partial jacket (free bullet tip),
• as a full jacket or rarely as a solid bullet,
• either as a solid bullet or as a bullet pressed from metal chips.

Their area of ​​application extends from hunting and self-defense to sport shooting .

The term flat-headed bullet itself is only a rough generic term for a wide variety of bullet shapes, all of which can have the above features.

See also

• Full jacket bullet
• Partial jacketed bullet
• Hollow point bullet
• Target ballistics
• Wound ballistics

literature

• Beat Kneubuehl, bullets (volume 1) - ballistics, accuracy, mode of action Motorbuch Verlag, 1998 ISBN 978-3-7276-7119-7
• Beat Kneubuehl, bullets (volume 2) - ballistics, effectiveness, measurement technology, Motorbuch Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-7276-7145-6