Flat Point

Flat Points are designed for use in lever action rifles.

How They Work

Flat Points are designed specifically for lever action rifles in .458 cal (e.g. .45-70 lever-actions) and .348 cal (Winchester Model 71 lever-actions). Their flat meplat is to ensure that they can be used in tubular magazines and will not detonate the primer of the cartridge in front. Other than their meplat design, they are constructed the same as Semi-Spitzers and are designed for controlled expansion and absolute reliability in terms of holding together.

Design Features

Construction – Flat Points consist of a front section with a lead core, bonded to a tapered copper jacket, with a solid copper base section. The copper section is lathe turned on high precision Swiss style CNC machines to provide superior uniformity. Projectiles are cut from high quality copper bar stock to provide consistency throughout.

Meplat – The meplat is designed to be a wide flat style, needed to ensure safe operation in lever-action rifle tube magazines. Upon impact, the meplat will expand to double bore diameter in a consistent mushroom.

Bonded Core – The copper walls containng the lead core are taper cut to ensure that they 'peel' open gradually in a controlled manner. This way, even at relatively high impact velocities the projectle will mushroom consistently and not come apart. North Fork call this 'Designed Impact Geometries'. The bottom of the lead core has a reversed ogive shape to ensure that the copper jacket has the greatest strength at maximum expansion, to prevent the front section from separating. 

Driving Bands – 'Smart Band Technology' utilises multiple thin driving bands. These not only ensure a positive gas seal with virtually no barrel fouling, but also reduce chamber pressures by effectively halving the bearing surface, to greatly reduce friction.

Range of Weights – Flat Points come in .458 calbre with three weight options and in.348 and .500 calibre in one weight each. 

Note: Because these projectiles have solid bases, they are longer than pure lead core projectiles of the same weight. As such, they may require a faster twist than the same weight lead core projectile. Please check the Technical Data Sheet to ensure that the projectiles you are interested in are compatible with your rifle's barrel twist rate.

Technical data.