In certain types of firearm competition bowling pin-like objects are shot at, with the goal of knocking them off of a platform. To accomplish this with conventional bullets having a standard tapered bullet requires great skill. This invention relaxes the precision requirement by using a bullet which has a sawtooth section cut from the face of the bullet. A bullet fired from a firearm normally rotates axially due to the rifling in the gun barrel. The rotation coupled with a sawtooth edged slug causes the bullet to penetrate the bowling pin-like object by boring into the surface. The kinetic energy of the bullet's forward movement impacts the bowling pin-like object moving it away from the line of fire. The kinetic energy of the bullet's rotational moment causes the bowling pin-like object to rotate about the axis of the bullet. The composite forces cause the pin to be knocked off the platform.
The invention relates to a guide nose on a bullet to enable the user to fire wad cutter type ammunition. The guide nose allows the bullet to be used in new automatic weapons and can be easily chambered into the barrel. When the bullet is fired, the plastic nose which is constructed in two pieces separates due to the spinning force of the bullet without effecting the direction of the flat bullet, which continues towards its target. The plastic guide nose will be secured to the bullet nose flat surface. In a preferred embodiment, the two halves snap into each other with a plastic snap joint to further keep the pieces together until the bullet is fired.
