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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 primers - Cast Boolits Alcan primers and powders were the products of a guy who took umbrage at the then-current policy among ammo makers of not providing components for reloaders He opened up shop by importing primers and powders (all shotgun at first) made by Bofors of Sweden He operated out of Alton, Illinois
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
#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
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
? on Alcan Flite-Max - Cast Boolits ? on Alcan Flite-Max Am wondering if anyone can tell me if Alcan put their 3 8 in Feltan-Bluestreak fiber wads inside the Flite-Max No 2 wad? These are a light blue in color
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
Alcan Flite Max 5 wads - Cast Boolits bought a bunch of shotgun components from a guy today There were 3 bags of Alcan Flite Max 5 wads in the bunch They are a plastic cup with a partial cut I 2 way down on 2 sides and fiber wads inside the cups Looks like a good slug wad Anyone ever use these?
S w alcan primers - Cast Boolits Still have a few boxes of these left along with some Alcan primers They've always worked fine Got them along with 1k of Winchester large pistol rounded dome primers in the old yellow and red boxes Still had the cupped primer seating inserts for my 1969 Rockchucker, so seating them was no problem Old stuff still works if it's been stored
Need data Alcan 8 - Cast Boolits Need data Alcan 8 I have a full can of Alcan 8 powder that's good I don't want to dump it, only want to load it in pistols Can anyone give me some loading data on this for: 45 ACP, or Colts? any other pistol loads would be good too I do NOT load for shotguns at all This is the only info I wish Thank you very much You can e'mail it to me