Are 1-3/4 12g shells available in Canada?

I don't think Aquila has a Canadian distributor. No mention of one or Canada at all on their site.
Stole this from the site, but they don't appear to actually ship here.
"Centurion Ordnance, Inc. is the privately owned, exclusive importer of the Aguila Ammunition brand in the USA, Canada..."
 
pacobillie said:
Never heard of 1 3/4 inch, but Kent makes some 2 1/2 in shells.

See:

http://kentgamebore.com/english-load/puregold-12-ga-english.html
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A shortened version of info taken from the net. I have 2 1/2" Kent shells but I'd love to try 1 3/4" in my old doubles if I could get them.


(from the net)
first saw Aguila 1 ¾-inch 12 gauge shells at SHOT a couple of years ago. They are, for want of a better word, cute. My first thought was, “these would make great cufflinks.” My second was to wonder how many would fit into the magazine of a pump gun.

Apparently a lot of other people wondered the same thing — about mag capacity, not the cufflink thing — because the web is full of videos of people stuffing Aguila shotshells into their guns. They come in a 5/8-ounce load of 7 ½ shot at 1,150 fps, a buckshot load containing 11 pellets of 4 buck, and a 7/8-ounce slug at around 1,200 fps. You can fit a lot of them into a shotgun. I believe the record is 29, into one of those bullpup riot guns with two magazine tubes. However, the short cases don’t cycle well in some pumps as the short hulls double-feed or sometimes fall through some carriers and out of the gun.
 
Is the OP talking about inches or ounces?!? I'm sure you could find some 1 3/4 ounce lead loads if you looked hard enough. I heard a few gun stores here in BC have been "discouraged" from selling such ammo by the COs as certain hunters have figured it performs much better than steel against waterfowl.
 
gunsaholic said:
A shortened version of info taken from the net. I have 2 1/2" Kent shells but I'd love to try 1 3/4" in my old doubles if I could get them.


(from the net)
first saw Aguila 1 ¾-inch 12 gauge shells at SHOT a couple of years ago. They are, for want of a better word, cute. My first thought was, “these would make great cufflinks.” My second was to wonder how many would fit into the magazine of a pump gun.

Apparently a lot of other people wondered the same thing — about mag capacity, not the cufflink thing — because the web is full of videos of people stuffing Aguila shotshells into their guns. They come in a 5/8-ounce load of 7 ½ shot at 1,150 fps, a buckshot load containing 11 pellets of 4 buck, and a 7/8-ounce slug at around 1,200 fps. You can fit a lot of them into a shotgun. I believe the record is 29, into one of those bullpup riot guns with two magazine tubes. However, the short cases don’t cycle well in some pumps as the short hulls double-feed or sometimes fall through some carriers and out of the gun.
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I Have a KSG coming, and the little boy in me wants to see how many I can fire before my shoulder falls off (I estimate about 11 rnd per tube)... I expect that the reduced recoil will help. Thanx for the input.
 
The 1.75" shotgun ammo is advertised on Centurion Ordnance, Inc.'s site. Called 12 Minishells. Comes in 5/8 oz., 7/8 oz. and 11 pellets of buck shot(no mention of the size). Not sure what the purpose of 'em is though.
 
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