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Bullet Abbreviations was last updated: 20100126 2301

Bullet Abbreviations
ACC - Remington Accelerator [2] (see sabot)
AP - Armor Piercing (has a steel or other hard metal core)
BBWC - Bevel Base Wadcutter
BEB - Brass Enclosed Base
BJHP - Brass Jacketed Hollow Point
Blitz - Sierra BlitzKing
Bt - Boat-tail
BtHP - Boat-tail Hollow Point
CB - Cast Bullet
CL, C-L - Remington Core-Lokt
DEWC - Double Ended Wadcutter
DU - Depleted Uranium
EVO, FTX - Hornady LEVERevolution Flex Tip eXpanding
FMJ - Full Metal Jacket
FMC - Full Metal Case
FN - Flat Nose
FP - Flat Point
FST - Winchester Fail Safe Talon
GC - Gas Check
GD - Speer Gold Dot
GDHP - Speer Gold Dot Hollow Point
GS - Remington Golden Saber
HBWC - Hollow Base Wadcutter
HC - Hard Cast
HP - Hollow Point
HPJ - High Performance Jacketed
HS - Federal Hydra-Shok
HST - Federal Hi-Shok Two
J - Jacketed
JFP - Jacketed Flat Point



JHC - Jacketed Hollow Cavity
JHP - Jacketed Hollow Point
JHP/sabot - Jacketed Hollow Point/sabot
JSP - Jacketed Soft Point
L - Lead
L-C - Lead Combat
L-T - Lead Target
LFN - Long Flat Nose
LFP - Lead Flat Point
LHP - Lead Hollow Point
LRN - Lead Round Nose
LSWC - Lead Semiwadcutter
LSWC-GC - Lead Semiwadcutter Gas Checked
LWC - Lead Wadcutter
LTC - Lead Truncated Cone
MC - Metal Cased
MHP - Match Hollow Point
MK - Sierra MatchKing
MRWC - Mid-Range Wadcutter
NP - Nosler Partition
OTM - Open Tip Match
OWC - Ogival Wadcutter [3]
PB - Lead Bullet
PB - Parabellum
PL - Remington Power-Lokt
PSP - Plated Soft Point
PSP, PTDSP - Pointed Soft Point
RN - Round Nose



RNFP - Round Nose Flat Point
RNL - Round Nosed Lead
SJ - Semi-Jacketed
SJHP - Semi-Jacketed Hollow Point
SJSP - Semi-Jacketed Soft Point
SP - Soft Point
SP - Spire Point
Sp,SPTZ - Spitzer
SpHP - Spitzer Hollow Point
SST - Hornady Super Shock Tip
SSp - Semi-Spitzer
ST - Silver Tip
STHP - Silver Tip Hollow Point
SWC - Semiwadcutter
SX - Super Explosive
SXT - Winchester Ranger Supreme Expansion Technology
TC - Truncated Cone
TMJ - Total Metal Jacket
TNT - Speer TNT
VMAX - Hornady V-Max Ballistic tip
VLD - Very Low Drag
WC - Wadcutter
WFN - Wide Flat Nose
WFNGC - Wide Flat Nose Gas Check
WLN - Wide Long Nose
X - Barnes X-Bullet
XTP - Hornady Extreme Terminal Performance