The SP version is a very rounded off tip that should be safe for use in lever action type rifles with a tubular magazine I believe. If you will always be shooting at close range, as in under 100 yards or so, I tend to notice that soft points with rounded off tips tend to deliver better terminal effects due to faster transfer of energy to target because of their larger frontal diameter. But the pointed soft points will deliver better down range ballistics and probably be slightly more accurate.