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My grandfather served in the British Army in the first world war. As an underage volunteer one of the task he was given was doctoring the ammo. They had him take each round and strike it with a hammer bullet down on a brick until the point was flattened. He called this a dum-dum round. Sounds like a risky process to me but he said he never had one go off and he did this many 1000s of times.

My grandfather was later captured by the Germans, spent more than two years as a PoW and then escaped and walked to Paris from eastern Germany. He was quite a guy as you might guess!