The organizing cornmitee of the 14th Asean Armies Rifle Meet (AARM) unlikely gives defective bullets to the participants, and thus the participating shooters should tell the committee if they find bullets with defects, an Indonesian Army officer in charge of the carbine match at the 14th AARM, Capt. M Asmin, said here Saturday.

Bullets to be used at the 14th AARM could be defective but such a condition isnot made by the commit-tee (members), he said, adding that the defect might be caused by bad packaging or, scratched by other objects.

Defective bullets can be changed to normal ones, he said, citing that a Vietnamese shooter once found that his bullet had defects on it and the committee allowed him to change the defective bullet to normal one.

According to Asmin, if a shooter uses a defective bullet, he or she may miss the target as the running bullet may deviate. All the participating contingents of the ASEAN member countries to the 14th AARMuse their own bulltes, except Cambodia who uses ammunitions made by Indonesia's fire-arms producing company PT Pindad, Asmin said.

He pointed out that an athlete can use about 200 rounds of ammunition during the 14th AARM which has been taking place in Cilodong, West Java, from September 1 to 8, 2004.
Some 500 athletes are taking parts in the ongoing shooting championship among the armies of the ten ASEAN member countries — Malaysia, Brunei Darussalm, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Singapore.