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Alcan primers - Cast Boolits Later, as mentioned, Alcan went into a marketing distribution contract with Smith Wesson I have powder cans with the S W label on them in my collection They eventually added rifle and handgun primers to their stock, but not rifle powders When the Bofors plant burned down and was not rebuilt, that was the end of Alcan
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
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 My first buy of primers were 5000 Alcan small rifle primers used in my 222 and finished in my 223 That was in the 1970's and they were gone by 1978 when I bought 10k CCI Small rifle primers on sale at I think was Value house for $20 0 per 5000k case, along with 40 bags of lead shot at 8 00 dollars per bag
Alcan 7 - Cast Boolits This Alcan 7 has more loading data in my old manuals than did the Alcan 5 Seemed like good stuff in magnum hand gun loads, seems to burn slower than Unique but faster than Blue Dot I loaded up some today using some gas checked 158 grain SWCs and 9 grains of this Alcan #7 in a Blackhawk I have that has given mediocre accuracy with most things
Alcan Flite Max 5 wads - Cast Boolits All my Alcan wads were 1 1 8 oz and I used Red Dot for all of my skeet loads I think you can easily cut the height of the felt wads with a single edge razor if the wad column is too tall If it is too short punch some dime size slugs from a cheap book cover and drop in the shot cup
#57 Primers and #157 - Cast Boolits 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 #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
Using old powder, AL5 - Cast Boolits I still have several of the old 3 lb cans of AL5 and several of the small cans 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