| +P |
Contains a higher powder charge than normal
(10-15% overpressure). |
| +P+ |
Contains a much higher powder charge than
normal (20-25% overpressure). |
| A |
A-Frame (Swift) |
| ACC |
Accelerator |
| ACEL |
Accelerator Discharging (or Discarding) Sabots |
| ACP |
Auto Colt Pistol |
| A-MAX |
Polymer tipped long range target bullet (Hornady) |
| AP |
Armor Piercing (has a steel or other hard
metal core) (Military) |
| API |
Armor Piercing Incendiary (Military) |
| APT |
Armor Piercing Tracer (Military) |
| APTI |
Armor Piercing Tracer Incendiary (Military) |
| AT-BT |
AccuTip Boat Tail (Remington) |
| BBWC |
Bevel Base Wad Cutter |
| BD or Ball, Duplex |
M198 - Contains two bullets (Military) |
| BEB |
Brass Enclosed Base |
| BEE |
FP varmint bullet for .218 Bee (Hornady) |
| BJHP |
Brass Jacketed Hollow Point |
| BP |
Bronze Point |
| BT |
Boat Tail, also Black Talon (Winchester) |
| BTBT |
Ballistic Tip BoatTail (Nosler) |
| BTHP |
Boat Tail Hollow Point |
| BTM |
Boat Tail Match |
| BTSP |
Boat Tail Soft Point |
| C/T |
Combat Target (Hornady) |
| CB |
Cast Bullet |
| CL |
Core-Lokt (Remington) |
| CL-SIL |
Cannelure - Silhouette (Hornady) |
| CLU |
Core-Lokt Ultra (Remington) |
| CMJ |
Complete Metal Jacket |
| CNL |
Conical Nose Lead |
| CP |
Cone Point |
| DEWC |
Double Ended Wad Cutter - can load either
way (Cast Bullet) |
| DPX |
Deep Penetrating X (Cor-Bon cartridge with
a Barnes X all copper hollow-point bullet) |
| EFMJ |
Expanding Full Metal Jacket (Federal) |
| EP |
Expanding Point |
| FEB |
Fully Encased Bullet |
| FMC |
Full Metal Case |
| FMJ |
Full Metal Jacket |
| FMJBT |
Full Metal Jacket Boat Tail |
| FMJ-ENC |
Full Metal Jacket - Encapsulated (Hornady) |
| FMJFN |
Full Metal Jacket Flat Nose |
| FMJFP |
Full Metal Jacket Flat Point |
| FMJRN |
Full Metal Jacket Round Nose |
| FMJRP |
Full Metal Jacket Round Point |
| FMJSWC |
Full Metal Jacket Semi-Wad Cutter |
| FMJTC |
Full Metal Jacket Truncated Cone |
| FN |
Flat Nose |
| FNEB |
Flat Nose Enclosed Base |
| FNSP |
Flat Nose Soft Point |
| FP |
Flat Point |
| FS or Fail-Safe |
Partition bullet with steel bands around
lead cores. (Winchester) |
| FST |
Fail Safe Talon |
| GAP |
Glock Auto Pistol |
| GC |
Gas Check (Cast Bullet) |
| GD |
Gold Dot (Speer) |
| GDHP |
Gold Dot Hollow Point |
| GS |
Golden Saber (Remington) |
| GS |
Grand Slam (CCI) |
| HAP |
Hornady Action Pistol (Hornady) |
| H&H |
Holland and Holland |
| HBWC |
Hollow Base Wad Cutter |
| HC |
Hard Cast |
| HE |
High Energy |
| HM |
Heavy Magnum |
| HMR |
Hornady Magnum Rimfire |
| HORNET |
Extra thin jacket for .22 Hornet (Hornady) |
| HP |
Hollow Point |
| HPBT |
Hollow Point Boat Tail |
| HPJ |
High Performance Jacketed |
| HPWC |
Hollow Point Wad Cutter |
| HS |
Hydra Shok (Federal) |
| HS & HS2 |
Hi Shok & Hi Shok 2 (Federal) |
| HSP |
Hornady Soft Point, also Hollow Soft Point |
| HST |
(no actual meaning) a type of hollow-point
(Federal) |
| I |
Interlock (Hornady) |
| IB |
Interbond (Hornady) |
| IRT |
Indoor Range Training (Federal) |
| J |
Jacketed |
| JET |
FP for 22 Rem Jet revolver (Hornady) |
| JFP |
Jacketed Flat Point |
| JHC |
Jacketed Hollow Cavity, (Sierra jacketed
hollow point) |
| JHP |
Jacketed Hollow Point |
| JHPBT |
Jacketed Hollow Point Boat Tail |
| JSP |
Jacketed Soft Point |
| JSPF |
Jacketed Soft Point Flat |
| JSZ |
Jacketed Stranded Zinc (Federal) |
| L |
Lead |
| LBT |
Lead Bullet Technology |
| LF |
Lead Free (Nontoxic) |
| LFN |
Long Flat Nose (LBT design), also Lead Flat
Nose |
| LFP |
Lead Flat Point |
| LGC |
Lead Gas Check (Cast Bullet) |
| LHP |
Lead Hollow Point |
| LM |
Light Magnum |
| L-N-L |
Lock-N-Load (Hornady) |
| LRN |
Lead Round Nose |
| LSWC |
Lead Semi-Wad Cutter |
| LSWC-GC |
Lead Semi-Wad Cutter, Gas Checked |
| L-C |
Lead Combat |
| L-T |
Lead Target |
| LTC |
Lead Truncated Cone |
| LWC |
Lead Wad Cutter |
| MB |
Multi Ball (Shot) |
| MC |
Metal Cased (basically FMJ) |
| MJ |
Metal Jacket |
| MK-BTHP |
MatchKing Boat Tail Hollow Point (Remington) |
| MON |
Monolithic Solid |
| MRWC |
Mid-Range Wadcutter |
| MR-X |
Improved TS with poly tip & tungsten
rear core (Barnes) |
| NBT |
Nosler Ballistic Tip |
| NOS |
Nosler |
| NOSBT |
Nosler Ballistic Tip |
| NP |
Nosler Partition |
| P |
Plated |
| PB |
Parabellum |
| PG |
Partition Gold (Winchester) |
| PL |
Power-Lokt |
| PP |
Power Point |
| Pro-Tex Bore |
Lead bullet with a zinc washer cast in base
(Cast Bullet) |
| PSP |
Pointed Soft Point |
| PSPCL |
Pointed Soft Point Core-Lokt (Remington) |
| R.E.A.L. |
Rifling-Engraved-At-Loading (Lee muzzle loader
bullet) |
| RN |
Round Nose |
| RNFP |
Round Nose Flat Point |
| RNL |
Round Nosed Lead |
| RNSP |
Round Nose Soft Point |
| RHT |
Reduced Hazard Training (Federal and CCI/Speer
low toxicity bullet) |
| S&W |
Smith and Wesson |
| SBBT |
Soft Point Boat Tail |
| SCHP |
Solid Copper Hollow Point |
| SFHP |
Starfire Hollow Point (PMC) |
| SHP |
Speer Hollow Point |
| SJ |
Semi Jacketed, also Short Jacket (Hornady) |
| SJHP |
Semi Jacketed Hollow Point, also Soft Jacket
Hollow Point |
| SJSP |
Soft Jacket Soft Point |
| SLAP |
Saboted Light Armor Penetrating |
| SOL |
Solid |
| SP |
Soft Point, also Spire Point, also Spotter-Tracer
(Military) |
| SPSX |
Spire Point Super Explosive (Hornady) |
| SPTZ |
Spitzer |
| SSB |
Swift Scirocco Bonded (Remington) |
| SSP |
Single-Shot Pistol (Hornady) |
| SST |
Super Shock Tip (Hornady) |
| ST |
Silver Tip HP (Winchester) |
| STHP |
SilverTip Hollow Point (Winchester) |
| Sub |
Subsonic |
| SWC |
Semi Wad Cutter |
| SX |
Super Explosive |
| SXT |
Supreme Expansion Technology (Winchester) |
| TAP FPD |
Tactical Ammunition Police - For Personal
Defense (Hornady) |
| TB |
Trophy Bonded |
| TBS |
Trophy Bonded Solid |
| TC |
Truncated Cone |
| TCMJ |
Truncated Cone Metal Jacket |
| TCSP |
Truncated Cone Soft Point |
| THP |
Tubular Hollow Point |
| TL |
Tumble Lube (Lee) |
| TMJ |
Total Metal Jacket -- like FMJ, but the copper
jacket even wraps the rear of the bullet and totally encapsulates
the lead. Also CMJ, FEB |
| TNT |
TNT hollow point (Speer) |
| TRI |
Triad Group (A Square) |
| TRU |
Tactical Rifle Urban (Federal) |
| TS or Triple-Shock |
Improved X-bullet (Barnes) |
| UHC |
Ultra High Coefficient (Hornady) |
| VLD |
Very Low Drag |
| V-MAX |
V-Max Polymer Tip Varmint Hunting Bullet
(Hornady) |
| V-MAXBT |
V-Max Boat Tail (Hornady) |
| W/C |
With Cannelure (Hornady) |
| WLN |
Wide Long Nose (LBT design) |
| WLY |
Woodleigh |
| WMR |
Winchester Magnum Rimfire |
| WSM |
Winchester Short Magnum |
| WSSM |
Winchester Super Short Magnum |
| X or X-bullet |
Solid copper hollow-point bullet (Barnes) |
| XP3 |
FS without the steel bands (Winchester) |
| XTP |
Extreme Terminal Performance (Hornady jacketed
hollow point) |
