English: This image illustrates the jacket placement difference between full metal jacket bullets on the left and soft point bullets on the right. Both bullet types are 220-grain .30-caliber. The silver-colored cupro-nickel jacketed bullets on the left have an enclosed rounded point with a jacket opening on the flat base, while the copper-colored gilding metal jacketed bullets on the right have an enclosed flat base with a jacket opening on the rounded point. If these bullets were loaded and fired in the opposite of their intended direction, the full metal jacket bullet might expand like a soft point, and the soft point bullet might perform like a full metal jacket.