American Rifleman, August issue, page 23. Swift cartridge company ad.
Shows a belted magnum round in the middle of the ones standing up, as well as the same round lying down. Has a regular ogive which blends into a smaller-diameter round nose bullet tip.
I know I could look it up using delicately parsed search terms, but (A) I'm lazy, and (B), I figure others on the board would like to know about this style for general information purposes, and (C) I often found that if I'm curious about something, sooner or later someone else usually gets curious about it and posts a question on it. Thus, I'm jumping the gun on questions about that bullet style.
So I hope someone would care to enlighten me (and others on the board) on the details of what the heck that's all about and maybe its history.
I was thinking maybe it was like the wasp-waist on some supersonic jet planes which supposedly improved their shock wave aerodynamics, but that doesn't really make sense... at least not to me.
Terry, 230RN