Round Nose
A bullet with a rounded, hemispherical nose. Common in lever-action and tubular-magazine cartridges where pointed bullets can detonate primers under recoil.
Round-nose bullets have low ballistic coefficients compared to spitzers. The blunt nose creates significantly more drag at supersonic speeds. That extra drag bleeds velocity fast, so a round-nose holds its accuracy best at short range rather than out at distance.
Their place is short-range hunting and certain antique-cartridge replications where the gun’s design or feeding system requires the safer profile. For precision rifle work at distance, reach for a spitzer boat-tail instead.