There have been discussions lately about bullet length and stability and nose shape. I recently lathe-cut some noses on the Eagan MX2-243 flat point bullet. This normally have a meplat of .140". My first attempt was to cut the truncated cone section to a rounded sharp point. The bullet length remained the same. The weights were about 76 - 78 grains. The cutting was not too precise.
These were shot last week to check feasibility. The six, 5-shot groups of pointy bullets averaged 0.759". Nine groups of the normal flat-point bullet measured 0.781".