What do I have here? Never seen these before, 9mm Plastic?

Headstamp reads as follows, "IVI" on the top "9mm" on the lower left and "08" on the lower right.

The photo is of a plain 9mm 9x19 case, with this case compressed and extended next to it?

Any ideas as to what it is?

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This should help:

IVI = Industries Valcartier Inc. (Presently SNC Technologies Inc.) ...it's Canadian, Vancouver
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Last edited by Dryball; Today at 12:06 AM.

They look like Simunitions ammo. It's a training round...the capsules should be filled with "paint"...used by military and L.E.

Alrighty, we were debating it being a wax projectile or some type of pepper ball setup.

We found 10 at the range, trying to think of something constructive/destructive to do with them.

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Training ammo commonly used indoors and also as non-lethal crowd control

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Boolit Mold Join DateDec 2012LocationArkansasPosts1

They look like Simunitions ammo. It's a training round...the capsules should be filled with "paint"...used by military and L.E.What he said...
Your weapon has to be converted (with a kit) to fire them. They are better than paintball guns but fairly expensive. We have the kits for our M4's and M9's but cannot get any more rounds due to cost.

Boolit Buddy Join DateAug 2009Posts72

Maybe the casing can be used for a leight weight .40 bullet in the 140-150 grain range

I loaded a few this morning with a small rifle primer and a wax bullet.

They chambered and fired in our 9mm largo 'test' gun(bad barrel)

Not really good for anything, but fun to play with, now they'll go in the box of junk for a later date.

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dryball has it right , there's a lil plastic domed capsule filled with paint , they have six slits and when they impact a flat hard surface they leave a cool lil paint star splatter ( that looks like those six slits enlarged into a starburst ) they come in several calibers and i think i like the 38 special ones best lolz

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Simunitions ammunition. Has a little plastic bullet filled with dye (blue and red). Used in special weapons so they would function the action. Used a lot in MOUT training.

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