CIL 55 years ago...

[mcpiper]

I shot a lot of those purple, paper .410 shells at blackbirds when I was a kid.

 

[kamlooky]

Great info from days of yore.
Simple to read too.

Thanks Dosing.

 

[xPrairie]

Ahh..the days when rifles were priced decently in proportion to what the Average Joe was getting paid.

I missed out on so many.

Never thought the Guv would f*ck things up so much.

 

[simonsez]

I still got an old box of those plus a bunch of other ammo and 12 guage shotgun shells
it's too bad no one in Canada makes ammo anymore.
I know IVI makes ammo but we can't buy it

Challenger ammo is made in Canada

 

[Canuck65]

From their 1970 catalogue.


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I miss the Poly kor, and the smell of them.



They were still loading some now forgotten rounds back then.

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The whole catalogue can be downloaded as a pdf for free -> https://archive.org/details/cil-sporting-arms-and-ammunition-january-1970

Could be wrong but I think these were all made by savage and anschutz. I still use a CIL 410 - made in Brazil for CIL, Remington and I'm sure some others. Cool post - thanks for sharing.