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jonny4523 · 08-11-2007, 02:12 PM

I was walking through my neighborhood today and found a shell casing about the size of a 9mm. The bottom reads: 9-L SB-T 81. It also has a military primer in it. By that, I mean that it is not reloadable. Instead of one hole where the primer sparks hits the powder, there are two small holes. Anyone know what this is? I'm also wondering why it is in the middle of the street of quiet rural neighborhood.

XD45X2 · 08-11-2007, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by jonny4523

I was walking through my neighborhood today and found a shell casing about the size of a 9mm. The bottom reads: 9-L SB-T 81. It also has a military primer in it. By that, I mean that it is not reloadable. Instead of one hole where the primer sparks hits the powder, there are two small holes. Anyone know what this is? I'm also wondering why it is in the middle of the street of quiet rural neighborhood.

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jdavionic · 08-11-2007, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jonny4523

I was walking through my neighborhood today and found a shell casing about the size of a 9mm. The bottom reads: 9-L SB-T 81. It also has a military primer in it. By that, I mean that it is not reloadable. Instead of one hole where the primer sparks hits the powder, there are two small holes. Anyone know what this is? I'm also wondering why it is in the middle of the street of quiet rural neighborhood.

The primer is called a Berdan primer. The round appears to be Mil-surplus 9mm round from Spain. More specifically -
Empresa Nacional Santa Barbara de Industrias Militares, SA Toledo, Spain

My guess is that 81 represents the year it was produced 1981.

mvician · 08-11-2007, 03:35 PM

here is a handy link

http://cartridgecollectors.org/headstampcodes.htm

SB-T is Empresa Nacional Santa Barbara de Industrias Militares, SA Toledo, Spain

**einheit 13** · 08-11-2007, 09:12 PM

Berdan primed cases are reloadible, just harder to do......I do it all the time.

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einheit 13 XDTalk 5K Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Virginia, C.S.A. Posts: 6,165	Berdan primed cases are reloadible, just harder to do......I do it all the time. __________________ Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time is enemy action Those that live by the sword...Get shot by those that don't!

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08-11-2007, 03:35 PM	#4
mvician XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NW Indiana Posts: 3,622	here is a handy link http://cartridgecollectors.org/headstampcodes.htm SB-T is Empresa Nacional Santa Barbara de Industrias Militares, SA Toledo, Spain