 The resulting aerodynamic advantage is currently seen as the optimum shape for rifle technology.The first combination spitzer and boat-tail bullet, named Balle "D" from its inventor (a lieutenant-colonel Desaleux), was introduced as standard military ammunition in 1901, for the French Lebel Model 1886 rifle.A ballistic tip bullet is a hollow-point rifle bullet that has a plastic tip on the end of the bullet itself.