- #57 Primers and #157 - Cast Boolits
For use in Remington-Peters shells " Generally speaking, only Remington-Peters and some Alcan cases used the 57 size primer, the rest used the 209 or Winchester size From the above it appears that the G57F was a little hotter than other standard primers, but not as hot as the Alcan 220 MaxFire
- Whatever happened to Alcan powders? - Cast Boolits
Eventually, Alcan folded for several reasons, the final one of which was the destruction of the Bofors powder plant in Sweden - their supplier Of their four shotgun powders (Al-120, AL-5, AL-7, and AL-8) the three faster ones have the best application to handguns AL-8 was a true magnum shotgun powder and only worked well at high-end handgun
- Alcan powders - Cast Boolits
The book 'Propellant Properties' gives some info on 4 different Alcan powders AL-5, 7, 8, and AL-120 They are all shotgun powders, and were also used in various pistol cartridges I haven't found any mention of AL-101 My Speer #8 Manual gives loads for AL-5 in several pistol cartridges
- Alcan primers - Cast Boolits
Still working on finishing off the last few hundred of my Alcan small pistol primers, 3 pound keg of AL8, 4 pound keg of AL120, and 209 Max Fire shotgun primers Don't think I'll ever use up all the old Flite Max, fiber, and regular card shotgun wads Hated see them go back in the day Local Western Auto store carried all their products
- seeking help of handgun reloading tables for Alcan powder
hi , I a seeking help of handgun reloading tables for Alcan powder for 38 special, 357 magnum, 9mm and 45 auto can someone plrase assit, many thanks, rojo
- Alcan #5 - Cast Boolits
For one thing, Alcan 5 is a flake powder, not spherical It does happen to have a burn rate near that of Unique and Accurate #5, but that's more coincidence than plan I like Alcan 5 in medium handgun loads but have never used it in any rifle cartridges 03-15-2011,07:08 PM #4 jmh54738 Boolit Buddy Join Date Nov 2005 Location 140 acre farm
- Using old powder, AL5 - Cast Boolits
The real old stuff has red particles in it, later alcan changed it to white particles but if it smells OK and doesn't have any rust in it it's good to go I load 38s, 44s and 45 C with it, also 20 ga shotgun excellent powder H10 03-27-2010,04:04 PM #14 BerdanIII Boolit Buddy Join Date Aug 2005 Posts 337 AL-5 DATA Speer #6
- alcan-7 - Cast Boolits
Alcan 7 was my hands down favorite powder in 12ga field loads What made it so special in my book was that it was slow but an alcan rep told me that it was progressive burning He explained that it started slow and accelerated as the burn continued
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