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Wow,
The bullets are harmless unless they are placed in a firearm and fired. I have only seen one round fire outside of a weapon and it was a fluke...we were handling tens of thousands of rounds of linked 7.62, roughly, and I guess one of the primers somehow got struck. Nobody was hurt, though it did blow the case apart. The brass case is just too weak for real dangerous pressures to develop.
Your rounds are probably stamped IMI, as they are/were one of the major suppliers of military ammunition. If the tip of the bullet is not painted green then I am willing to bet that the 1 and 9 represent the twist rate of the barrel that the ammunition is designed for. When we switched from 55gr. bullets to 62gr. bullets we had to increase the rate of twist from 1 in 14 to 1 in 9 to stabilize the longer, heavier rounds. To avoid confusion we started painting the tips of the newer rounds green, but not all countries do this since it isn't really necessary, especially if you don't have older 1 in 14 twist weapons in your arsenal. The marking on the case may just be to make sure there is no confusion.
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