What's the purpose of round point rifle rounds?

Making round holes

Has that actually ever been proven to happen? I know that has been a holdover from military thought since the first lever actions were shown to the military, but I've yet to see any evidence of that being possible under any realistic scenario and acceleration.

Taofledermaus tried and wasn't successful. It may be just a precautionary measure or something that could of happened back in the early firearm days.
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It happened pretty famously when the Lebel was first made. Shooting Times(might be wrong on which magazine) had an article on Hornady Leverlution rounds and the .308 Marlin Express where they basically blew up a ton of guns until they got the plastic tip just right.

Keep in mind a lot of modern primers are different than old timey shit. It took up like 2 years to figure out the p320 was defective and lots of people were carrying those around chambered daily and only 1 youtuber and 1 cop shot themselves.

Ye olden days, primers were softer, way softer you could pop them with your nail if you were stout enough. Really not an issue today and it's been tested multiple times unsuccessfully. But the leverlution marketers persist, though the ammo is fantastic regardless.

Its easier to pour good round nose projectiles back in the day. They turned better than conical attempts.
And they shattered human limbs better

holdover from when they hadn't invented spitzer rounds yet

That round nose will travel straight and true through thick Spongy skull bones like on elephants and joints and plates. The pointed bullet will get deflected off court easier. WDM Bell used military round point solids heavy 4x its width is its length solids for that very reason. Long and round travels true through the animal.

Lol

Bell himself goes into detail about it in his books. There is no man who has ever lived that had more success, was so efficient, and took such numbers as he did. I would say he is the highest authority on the matter. About the round
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Behind the Bullet: 7x57mm Mauser
by Philip Massaro - Friday, February 10, 2017

Behind the Bullet: 7x57mm Mauser

Few cartridges, in the history of modern firearms, have influenced our shooting world as much as the 7x57mm Mauser. Designed by Peter Paul Mauser in 1892 to serve in the military, the 7x57 Mauser showed the American soldiers what a cartridge should be on the slopes of Cuba’s San Juan Hill, and inspired the development of our own revered .30-’06 Springfield. In the hunting world, it made an immediate transition—as so many military cartridges have—and to this day remains a favorite among the African hunters. In its British guise the 7x57mm Mauser was known as the .275 Rigby, and in the hands of some talented hunters like W.D.M. Bell and Col. Jim Corbett, the cartridge would go on to inspire the world in the classic hunting tales like “Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter” and “The Man-Eaters of Kumaon.” Driving a 173 or 175-grain bullet at a muzzle velocity of 2,300 fps, it had enough Sectional Density for the early copper-jacketed soft points to behave properly, and enough velocity to drive the full-patch ‘solids’ through an elephant’s skull. "

Round noses were the original post-Minie shape.

Spitzers followed to improve aerodynamics.

Flat noses had a hydrodynamic effect that improved penetration and produced a crude hole-widening effect considered effective before JHPs.

This, and spitzer bullets were actually patented as well.

Plausible. Even the redneck "science" on IV8888 shows pretty clearly how prone spitzers are to deflecting off piddly things like half inch tree branches.

>only 1 youtuber and 1 cop shot themselves.
What a tragedy. Only one of each.

The better question: Why did anyone even favor tube magazines for a time? A long tube can't possibly be easier to manufacture consistently compared to a box and the spring for the former has to be a lot longer too.

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If you look at the time frame between tube fed magazines as standard and then internal box magazines as standard its about the same adoption rate as the transition from bolt action standard to semi auto.

It's to bounce off the enemies. Like some sort of less-lethal rounds before they came up with tasers.

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>A long tube can't possibly be easier to manufacture consistently compared to a box
Wrong.
A tube is much easier, and much faster (read: cheaper) to make than a box magazine.

>the spring for the former has to be a lot longer too.
A long cylindrical spring is much easier to make than one shaped to fit in a rectangular mag. Even back in the 1800's it takes mere seconds to make a round spring by winding annealed wire around a mandrel on a lathe, then chucking it in a pile to be heat treated.

It was the only reliable type of large capacity magazine around until the Mannlicher series of rifles took off. This is the early 1880s, mind you.