American Eagle .223 and the Science of Boat-Tailed Bullets

Buckinghorseoutpost25 Aug, 2023Business

The first bullets were round balls, patched and fired from black powder, muzzleloading arms. Black powder deflagrates slowly compared to modern smokeless powders, and round balls are not ballistically or aerodynamically efficient anyway, so bullet design wasn?t a problem until the end of the 1800s, when arms manufacturers started to produce much faster-burning smokeless powder and loading cartridges with spitzer bullets that were aerodynamically efficient enough to take advantage of 1500 FPS muzzle velocities - and even higher.