2014年4月12日 · 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.

2009年7月17日 · 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.

2011年2月8日 · 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.

2018年3月19日 · 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 …

2016年10月1日 · Alcan 7 load data--This is right from the book Alcan Reloaders Manual XI dated 1966 (The recomendations in this charge table are maximum loads and should be approached with caution. Suggest a one grain reduction for initial loading.)

2011年3月18日 · 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.

2020年9月25日 · 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.

2009年7月25日 · Loaded a hundred 38 specials with Alcan primers, 3.7gr. of international clays, and a 158 gr. swc boolit. Great shooting round with not one misfire. Mild accurate load as well. Shot just at 1 inch from a bench off a bag at 50 feet out my old,ugly Mod-15 S&W. They opened up a little more from the same spot with the same round out of a snubby smith.

2017年8月5日 · 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 ...

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