The meplat (from the French word "méplat" meaning "flat surface of a cylinder") is the technical term for the flat or open tip on the nose of a bullet. The shape of the meplat is important in determining how the bullet moves through the air. In particular the size and shape of the meplat has a significant effect on the ballistic coefficient of a bullet.[1]
^Haag, Lucien C., "The Sound of Bullets", AFTE Journal #34, Summer 2002, p. 255
The meplat (from the French word "méplat" meaning "flat surface of a cylinder") is the technical term for the flat or open tip on the nose of a bullet...
consists of a roughly conical shape with the tip truncated flat (called a meplat), sitting on a cylinder (A at right). The base of the cone is slightly smaller...
do not cut it. A bullet constructed with a half diameter ogive designed meplat and hard, solid copper alloy material may crush only the tissue directly...
bullets. Originally Keith specified a meplat that was 65% of the bullet caliber, but later increased it to a 70% meplat. The other distinguishing characteristics...
examined side by side. The hollow point cavity dimensions and angles of the meplat were altered to enhance reliability of expansion, though the basic "reverse...
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the ammunition is designed for, a bullet with a wide enough flat point (Meplat) will never "pencil through" with minimal disruption in the absence of tumbling...
began in c.2010. Both cartridges are similar, but the F1A1 ammo has a green meplat tip and the headstamp has dimples at the 3 and 9 o'clock position (a peculiarity...
Canadien, and in La Ruche littéraire, where he signed his name Isidore de Méplats. One of his most remarkable studies is his work on Chansons populaires...
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