Huge blow to importing anything from the U.S.

There is a BC company that is in the R&D phases of developing match bullets, particularly for the big stuff including 408 chey tac. I have high hopes they will create a good home grown alternative to the US and Europe
 
Is the company name, Matrix? We've been R & Ding some of his bullets helping him test and giving advice. I really hope he's able to crank out a bullet with the results we're after. When it comes to bullets, as long as they fly straight, I could care less if the guy is making them out of his outhouse in the backyard. If he can supply, I'll buy.
 
Glock-a-maniac said:
From my understand, Richard is sending most of his stuff to the states where he's gaining popularity. Though his bullets are of good quality, from my understanding, he's throttling back and hoping to sell his whole bullet making operation because of insurance issues in dealing with liability protection. We've been on his case since he started and have only recieved very little of what he has produced. THat being said, there are a lot of other long range forum members from the states that rave about his stuff yet we've never seen any of his 30cal precision bullets. I'm not sure how to call that one. We'd be testing them and marketing them greatly if we could get our hands on any.
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Yes, I've seen many hunters talk about his varmint bullets on PredatorMasters.
 
Glock-a-maniac said:
With us soon to be building our own actions in every configuration, all we need is a bullet maker to come out with a comparable bullet to the popular SMKs or Hornadys and keep us all in stock and happy. Then it just boils down to powder and primers.
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Actually there is a Canadian bullet company named The Accurate Bullet Company that is trying to do this very thing. Currently they are making limited calibers (50 BMG, 408 and 338) in machined bullets and swaged bullets are on the drawing board. The owners of this company were so upset with the hassel and refusal to sell bullets from the USA to Canada that they started their own company. Phil.
 
What you can do, you can buy Corbins press and make any bullets you want. The whole setup is just $11,000 with the piping included for the first batch.
 
Just another reason for us to try and do things ourselves or get our stuff somewhere else. I'm pretty sick of all the U.S protectionism/security crap and I'm kind of happy when I can find a product from another contry that is competing with the U.S and will sell me stuff and ship to me without any hassles or paperwork. I'm not one of those anti-American Canadians, but when our neighbors to the south get to be too stupid about things, there's always somebody else to jump in and steal thier peice of the market; which is good for us and bad for the U.S in the end. You can't go around pissing everyone off AND be the top dog forever. I figure buy yourself a Chinese Norc M14, a made in Canada Marstar scope mount, grab a "tactical" mil-dot scope from Hong Kong off of Ebay, and some custom bullets from a nice Canadian company and forget about idiotic political decisions south of the border.
 
If all goes well, a bullet maker should be attending the Summerland Shoot.

Hopefully, loaded ammo so that we can send some bullets downrange.

The major brands will continue to export as their market is large enough to justify the costs. It is the boutique stuff that will likely be problematic but that will open opportunities for enterprising Cdn's.

Jerry
 
I'm all for checking out new bullets in Canada like I said before. A lot of the guys that take delivery of their custom rifle look to us for advice on what to feed their new pride and joy. If we had bullets that were not priced out of this world, and were accurate, I have no problem what so ever promoting home grown product as long as there is some profit in it. Let's face it, if the average customer can buy it for what I'm selling it for, there's no point in selling or promoting it Canadian or not. I'm not independantly wealthy and do this for kicks but in the same way, I'm not trying to retire from this industry by the time I'm 40 either.

Phil, I'd imagine machined bullets, though literally perfect in every way, would be nice, I'd imagine they'd be incredibly costly as well. About the only bullets it might be worth checking into on pure cost alone would be a 50cal A-Max comparitive or a 408 but even the 408 is a little ways away from being a common sight at the range.
 
Glock-a-maniac said:
I'm all for checking out new bullets in Canada like I said before. A lot of the guys that take delivery of their custom rifle look to us for advice on what to feed their new pride and joy. If we had bullets that were not priced out of this world, and were accurate, I have no problem what so ever promoting home grown product as long as there is some profit in it. Let's face it, if the average customer can buy it for what I'm selling it for, there's no point in selling or promoting it Canadian or not. I'm not independantly wealthy and do this for kicks but in the same way, I'm not trying to retire from this industry by the time I'm 40 either.

Phil, I'd imagine machined bullets, though literally perfect in every way, would be nice, I'd imagine they'd be incredibly costly as well. About the only bullets it might be worth checking into on pure cost alone would be a 50cal A-Max comparitive or a 408 but even the 408 is a little ways away from being a common sight at the range.
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To compare current prices in Canada the Accurate Bullet Company is producing .408 ,385 grn S.P.R.B.T. at $99/50, .510 600 grn. R.N.B.T. at $65/20 and .50 BMG, 750 grn, S.P.R.B.T., $79.00/20 (includes 20 .50 BMG primers). We are distributing these for the western provinces and while BC is being handled by the manufacturer. We have dealer bricing available PM me for details and prices. I will do a more in depth post on these bullets and the manufacturing process in the very near future. (including photos).
 
Excellent Phil. Myself or Rick will talk to you in more detail about this. This is good news for the guys wanting A-Max bullets but can't get any because of obvious reasons.
 
apparently US State Dept has relaxed there requirement for export permits by allowing a max of 1000 bullets to be exported out of the US with out permits.
 
Savage said:
apparently US State Dept has relaxed there requirement for export permits by allowing a max of 1000 bullets to be exported out of the US with out permits.
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Since when? Any idea as to which companies are doing so?
 
Savage said:
apparently US State Dept has relaxed there requirement for export permits by allowing a max of 1000 bullets to be exported out of the US with out permits.
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Sinclair informed me Monday that I needed an export permit for any brass or bullets, they used to ship up to 900 brass casings without a permit, but apparently this has recently changed.
Truthfully I don't think anyone REALLY knows what the State Dept is on about, as every different body that answers the DOS phone has a different slant on what is and what isn't the rule of the day.
Supposedly ITAR sets the rules for the year, but that sure ain't my experience.:confused:
 
The Sinclair thing was only true for about a month, until someone at the State Dept. changed their minds again, like ATR says. I have the email from Sinclair saying it's no longer good to go. Too bad, I would have ordered more had I known.
 
BC_Guy said:
The Sinclair thing was only true for about a month, until someone at the State Dept. changed their minds again, like ATR says. I have the email from Sinclair saying it's no longer good to go. Too bad, I would have ordered more had I known.
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Me too! I am not adverse to daily ordering, even if it was only for a month.
 
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