- 2F – 2-part Controlled Fragmenting
- ACC – Remington Accelerator (see sabot)
- ACP – Automatic Colt Pistol
- AE – Action Express
- AGS – African Grand Slam (Speer)
- AP – Armor Piercing (has a steel or other hard metal core)
- APT – Armor-piercing tracer
- API – Armor-piercing incendiary
- APFSDS – Armor-piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot round
- B – Ball
- B2F – Brass 2-part Fragmenting
- BBWC – Bevel Base Wadcutter
- BEB – Brass Enclosed Base
- BJHP – Brass Jacketed Hollow Point
- Blitz – Sierra BlitzKing
- BMG – Browning Machine Gun
- BrPT – Bronze Point
- Bt – Boat-tail
- BtHP – Boat-tail Hollow Point
- C2F – Civilian 2-part Fragmenting
- CB – Cast Bullet
- CL, C-L – Remington Core-Lokt
- CN – Cupronicknel
- CNCS – Cupronickel-Clad Steel
- CTFB – Closed Tip Flat Base
- DBBWC – Double bevel based wadcutter
- DEWC – Double Ended Wadcutter
- DGS – Dangerous Game Solid (Hornady)
- DGX – Dangerous Game Expanding (Hornady)
- DU – Depleted Uranium
- EVO, FTX – Hornady LEVERevolution Flex Tip eXpanding
- EVO – RWS Evolution bullet
- FMC – Full Metal Case
- FMJ – Full Metal Jacket
- FMJBT – Full Metal Jacket Boat-Tail
- FN – Dangerous Game Solid Bullets Flat Nose
- FNEB – Flat Nose Enclosed Base
- FP – Flat Point
- FP – Full Patch
- FST – Winchester Fail Safe Talon
- GAP (G.A.P.) – Glock Automatic Pistol
- GC – Gas Check
- GD – Speer Gold Dot
- GDHP – Speer Gold Dot Hollow Point
- GM – Gilding Metal
- GMCS – Gilding Metal-Clad Steel
- GS – Remington Golden Saber
- GSC – GS Custom Turned Copper Bullets
- HBWC – Hollow Base Wadcutter
- HC – Hard Cast
- HE-IT – High Explosive Incendiary Tracer
- HP – Hollow Point
- HPBT – Hollow Point Boat Tail
- HPJ – High Performance Jacketed
- HS – Federal Hydra-Shok
- HST – Federal Hi-Shok Two
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- HV – Low friction Drive Band Bullets High Velocity
- ID-Classic – RWS fragmentation bullet, ex-TIG after Brenneke-license was not renewed.
- I-T – Incendiary-Tracer
- 'IB – Interbond (Hornady)
- J – Jacketed
- JAP – Jacketed Aluminium Point
- JFP – Jacketed Flat Point
- JHC – Jacketed Hollow Cavity
- JHP – Jacketed Hollow Point
- JHP/sabot – Jacketed Hollow Point/sabot
- JSP – Jacketed Soft Point
- L – Lead
- L-C – Lead Combat
- L-T – Lead Target
- LFN – Long Flat Nose
- LFP – Lead Flat Point
- LHP – Lead Hollow Point
- LRN – Lead Round Nose
- LSWC – Lead Semiwadcutter
- LSWC-GC – Lead Semiwadcutter Gas Checked
- LWC – Lead Wadcutter
- LTC – Lead Truncated Cone
- MC – Metal Cased
- MHP – Match Hollow Point
- MK – Sierra MatchKing
- MRWC – Mid-Range Wadcutter
- MP – Metal Point (only the tip of the bullet is covered)
- NP – Nosler Partition
- OTM – Open Tip Match
- OWC – Ogival Wadcutter
- P – Pracitce, proof
- PB – Lead Bullet
- PB – Parabellum
- PL – Remington Power-Lokt
- PnPT – Pneumatic Point
- PPL – Paper patched lead
- PSP – Plated Soft Point
- PSP, PTDSP – Pointed Soft Point
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- RN – Round Nose
- RNFP – Round Nose Flat Point
- RNL – Round Nosed Lead
- SJ – Semi-Jacketed
- SJHP – Semi-Jacketed Hollow Point
- SJSP – Semi-Jacketed Soft Point
- SP – Soft Point
- SP – Spire Point
- Sp, SPTZ – Spitzer
- SPC – Special Purpose Cartridge
- SpHP – Spitzer Hollow Point
- SST – Hornady Super Shock Tip
- SSp – Semi-Spitzer
- ST – Silver Tip
- STHP – Silver Tip Hollow Point
- SWC – Semiwadcutter
- SX – Super Explosive
- SXT – Winchester Ranger Supreme Expansion Technology
- T – Tracer
- TAG – Brenneke lead-free bullet (German: Torpedo Alternativ-Geschoß)
- TBBC – Carter/Speer Trophy Bonded Bear Claw soft point
- TBSS – Carter/Speer Trophy Bonded Sledgehammer Solid
- TC – Truncated Cone
- THV – Terminal High Velocity
- TIG – Brenneke fragmentation bullet (German: Torpedo Ideal-Geschoß)
- TMJ – Total Metal Jacket
- TNT – Speer TNT
- TUG – Brenneke deformation bullet (German: Torpedo Universal-Geschoß)
- TOG – Brenneke deformation bullet (German: Torpedo Optimal-Geschoß)
- UmbPT – Umbrella Point
- UNI-Classic – RWS deformation bullet, ex-TUG after Brenneke-license was not renewed.
- VMAX – Hornady V-Max
- VLD – Very Low Drag
- WC – Wadcutter
- WFN – Wide Flat Nose
- WFNGC – Wide Flat Nose Gas Check
- WLN – Wide Long Nose
- X – Barnes X-Bullet
- XTP – Hornady Extreme Terminal Performance
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