Softnose

Quick meaning: Softnose is an adjective meaning (firearms) Of a bullet: lacking a jacketed nose and thereby deforming greatly on impact, causing a large amount of damage; soft-nosed.

Meaning

(firearms) Of a bullet: lacking a jacketed nose and thereby deforming greatly on impact, causing a large amount of damage; soft-nosed.

More Meanings

1. (firearms, countable) A bullet of this kind; (uncountable) bullets of this kind collectively.

Example Sentences

The softnoses were just as quickly outlawed, for the obvious reason that these weapons were designed to kill, and not to incapacitate.

And get a couple of boxes of .40 caliber Glasers, too. And about a dozen boxes of .30 caliber softnoses for my SKS. You need some cash for all that?

The soft nose bullet if it is fired and hitting any hard object, especially bone, it flattens and becomes distorted and is no longer round and has a tearing force with it.

The soft nose when it strikes a hard substance, mushrooms, would leave ten times as large a hole as a hard nose bullet striking the same substance. A soft nose bullet would leave a ragged edge.

Word Forms

• soft-nose
• soft nose
• softnoses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include full-bore, deep-throated, broad-mouthed, bullate, heavy-handed, bigmouthed.

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