Does anyone have any idea what this 9mm bullet is besides being some kind of lead coated projectile?

[crackshot258]

 

[gc70]

9mm Parabellum with a headstamp for Empresa Nacional Santa Barbara de Industrias Militares, SA Toledo, Spain.

 

[Coyote3855]

Cartridge, not bullet.

 

[redbullitt]

The bullet looks like a typical coated truncated cone cast one I shoot all the time. Assuming the cartridge is 9mm but I honestly cannot tell for 100 percent certainty just from that photo.

If it is not a poly coating is it some kind of electro plated job or paint that is flaking off?

 

[Jim K]

I doubt that round is a factory product. It looks more like something made up by a reloader. The head appears to have been altered in the extraction groove area. What appears to be flaking paint on the bullet suggests something made up for display (as in a cartridge belt in a movie) rather than actual use. Pulling the bullet might confirm whether there is powder in the cartridge and if so what type.

Jim

 

[crackshot258]

9mm Parabellum with a headstamp for Empresa Nacional Santa Barbara de Industrias Militares, SA Toledo, Spain.

Thank you. I got this from another group that I am a member in.......

9-P 91 SB-T Spanish 9mm Para, brass cased, Berdan primed 148.9 gr. bullet
Santa Barbara 25 rd. box and marked "Bala con Mablan."

 

[crackshot258]

I doubt that round is a factory product. It looks more like something made up by a reloader. The head appears to have been altered in the extraction groove area. What appears to be flaking paint on the bullet suggests something made up for display (as in a cartridge belt in a movie) rather than actual use. Pulling the bullet might confirm whether there is powder in the cartridge and if so what type.

Jim

This turns out to be a Spanish military round.

 

[crackshot258]

Cartridge, not bullet.

Naw, mfr calls it a bullet......

9-P 91 SB-T Spanish 9mm Para, brass cased, Berdan primed 148.9 gr. bullet
Santa Barbara 25 rd. box and marked "Bala con Mablan."

 

[crackshot258]

Thanks all. I think I found out what they are. Very interesting, and I wonder how they ended up in the scrap box at the range that I go to.

 

[SteveChuck]

Thanks all. I think I found out what they are. Very interesting, and I wonder how they ended up in the scrap box at the range that I go to.

Probably ended up in the scrap box because they don't fire worth a darn...lol.

 

[Archie]

I would suspect the disposer didn't really know what they were and if they were safe to shoot. To a typical American, they do look a bit odd.

 

[jonnyc]

There are actually 3 or 4 different versions of the heavy MABLAN rounds, and they were more of an experimental round than wide issue in Spain. Apparently a few cases were accidentally included in some pallet loads of surplus ammo that arrived a few years back. As stated above, it shot like crap.

 

[Stope Rat]

Looks like an experimental (and not very good) 9x19mm subsonic round.

Used google translate function from here

http://www.municion.org/9para/9para.htm