I did a web search for the idiom 'counting ones bullets' and got 0 responses. I've never seen that particular expression before. "
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dilantoplu...and to Natan, for always counting my bullets.My guess is that it means nothing to the general public. It's a private joke between the author and Natan. Perhaps the two of them used that expression with each other in their personal communications and developed their own meaning for it.