The 5.56mm M855 has a green bullet tip and is used by the U.S. military as its standard small arms round. Adopted by NATO in 1980, the new load has a spitzer boat-tail bullet. It also has much ...

All of the bottlenecked cartridges, like the 6.5 Creedmoor and 308 Winchester, get a flat-based, boat-tail spitzer bullet. These bullets have a tapered jacket and a lead-alloy core just like ...