Please ID this arabic 7.62x51 surplus ammo

[wildphil24]

I got a lot of loose ammo. Supposedly arab surplus 7.62 NATO. Fit perfectly in a .308 sizing (die or whatever reloading gauge). Headstamp has unknown symbols:

I searched a lot and Palestinian, Egyptian, Indian, Israelian all seem to use conventional stamping.
It could be United arabic emirates (UAE) but I can't find their headstamp.

Of course I wonder if it's a reliable/safe type of ammo.
Also are the two different sealer colors and symbol meaning a different load/bullet or just a different lot/year?
Any help is appreciated.

 

[green]

Likely Syrian.

 

[Dosing]

Try Iranian, there was a batch floating around a few years ago, IIRC the headstamps were in Farsi. Try googling that.

 

[wildphil24]

Effectively looks like Iranian. What the symbols mean and how's that ammo, I still have to figure.
Is it corrosive?

 

[oops]

Looks like someone at the plant could not spell Winchester

 

[Mac0607]

Thats the symbol on the Iranian flag.

 

[mardig88]

the green one is 1961
tjhe red 1963

 

[Dosing]

These are the ones I suspected, they are Iranian, post revolutionary government, and actually from the 1980s IIRC, there is a difference between the various calenders. You can find a discussion or two about them on cartridgecollectors.org

 

[wildphil24]

Mardig, Dosing, do you know if it's corrosive and reliable?

 

[Dosing]

I cant honestly remember anymore (this stuff showed up in the late 90s-early 00s), but anything of that era (60-70s), and that region I would just treat as corrosive. Iranian ammo does go bang reliably enough, they have exported it all through out Africa to various terrorist/insurgency groups. Their 7,62 was some of their better made stuff, some of their 7,62X39 looks pretty rough.

 

[kjohn]

Probably made especially for firing into the air at weddings and soccer games.

 

[Leonidas]

Very cool, thanks for posting. Let us know how it shoots.

 

[mardig88]

not 100% but I would treat it as corrosive