Petition for a Canadian bullet manufacturer

mike shickele

mike shickele

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Hey guys (and gals), This is a petition to see if we have enough voices to be heard. If there are enough of us that voice that we want to see a Canadian bullet manufacturer, manufacture quality bullets at a reasonable price, maybe someone will be listening. Enough of this trying to feed ourselves off of the leftovers from the States; are there enough of us to count?
Simply leave your name with a short request, and let your friends know too.

My name is Mike Shickele, I would like to see 55gr 224dia bullets, and 180gr 308 dia bullets.
Mike
 
So you are petitioning who? Canadian entreprenuers, because they haven't decided to make a futile attempt to take on the megolithic American Ammo producers. Invest tens of thousands of dollars in manufacturing equipment only to find out that their efforts cannot be reasonably compensated due to the small Canadian market for which their product may or not appease. Perhaps I should start a petition because no one has developed a time machine. At least not a "Canadian" Time machine:runaway:
 
weldboss@hotmail.com said:
So you are petitioning who? Canadian entreprenuers, because they haven't decided to make a futile attempt to take on the megolithic American producers. Perhaps I should start a petition because no one has developed a time machine. At least not a "Canadian" Time machine:runaway:
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This is unfortunatly the attitude that keeps us where we are.
Mike
 
Canadian BDX are or were making a 55gr FMJ. They are making a .45 230 gr fmj, and should have a 9mm 124 and .40 180gr.

AIM make a full spread of excellent plated bullets.

As for the 180 gr .30 cal, good luck.
 
mike - go to w ww.corbins.com.
They can supply the tooling to get you started.
Make the ones you want, sell the surplus.
 
Canadian BDX is now up and running. 45 bullets are being made as i type. once he has caught up on his back log of ammo orders there will be bullets available to the public through his dealers (yes i am one.)

I had the pleasure of test firing his 124 - 9 mm bullets on the weekend. they both fed and the accuracy at 23 years was great. he is hoping to be producing 9's by the end of the week.

These are FMJ bullets not plated bullets.
 
Hmmm, let's say that I was interested in starting something. With responses like I've been getting do you think that it would be feasable. Maybe Canadian consumers deserve the leftovers that America doesn't want, we possibly don't even deserve that. If we are the "gun nuts" in Canada, I can only imagine the sheer apathy the rest of the population has...................I would not start a business in this climate, and my heart goes out to those who have.
Mike
 
AIM is in Hamilton, they started up somewhat recently. The offer nice bullets at a fair price. I think they only produce popular handgun calibers right now though.
 
mike shickele said:
Hmmm, let's say that I was interested in starting something. With responses like I've been getting do you think that it would be feasable. Maybe Canadian consumers deserve the leftovers that America doesn't want, we possibly don't even deserve that. If we are the "gun nuts" in Canada, I can only imagine the sheer apathy the rest of the population has...................I would not start a business in this climate, and my heart goes out to those who have.
Mike
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The thing with starting a business is you have to have a product that the consummer wants.
(Why by product A over Product B?)Many other bullet makers already make an excellent quality bullet, make a ton of them with sophisticated equipment, reducing the cost to the consumer and have years of brand recognition and marketing behind them. And they are not about to loose valuable market share to a new player. It isn't that the masses won't by a bullet made in Canada. It would just have to be better, cheaper and as readily available to the end user.
And that is the uphill battle, that all business ventures face, I give credit to anyone who is willing to take that risk.:)
 
I don't think you understand...you've been petitioned.

Run along now...times a wastin!

Let us know when the bullets are ready :wave:

mike shickele said:
Hmmm, let's say that I was interested in starting something. With responses like I've been getting do you think that it would be feasable. Maybe Canadian consumers deserve the leftovers that America doesn't want, we possibly don't even deserve that. If we are the "gun nuts" in Canada, I can only imagine the sheer apathy the rest of the population has...................I would not start a business in this climate, and my heart goes out to those who have.
Mike
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Would I support a new venture to produce Canadian manufactured ammunition, yes. However a petition implies a show of force, and the question arises: who? You can't just sign a bunch of people and take it to someone and say "here's a petition, now do something about it".

If someone were interested in starting a business doing this, and wanted to do a market poll to see if they had the interest, then yes, I'd get behind it. But petitions are just more paperwork.
 
I just got some of the Matrix Ballistis bonded core bullets; 140 gr 7mm and 270 gr 9.3 cal. They are very fine looking bullets.

Will be shooting them at the range this week, and plan on using them on caribou and woods bison this winter.

Stay tuned......

Ted
 
1 refurb transfer press for making 1 type of bullet costs roughly $500k. It only makes one type at one time. It can be retooled for 50k+

It can be done cheaper, but that gives you an idea of the costs.
 
E-mail Aim. They seemed very enthusiastic and inventive about the business when i bought some stuff off them a year ago.They did allot of work to get the business up and running after buying it of a guy in T.O.Cost could be a prohibitive factor though.
 
bjhill said:
E-mail Aim. They seemed very enthusiastic and inventive about the business when i bought some stuff off them a year ago.They did allot of work to get the business up and running after buying it of a guy in T.O.Cost could be a prohibitive factor though.
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Those are plated bullets. Great for lower velocities, and much cheaper to make than conventional bullets.
 
CanAm said:
1 refurb transfer press for making 1 type of bullet costs roughly $500k. It only makes one type at one time. It can be retooled for 50k+

It can be done cheaper, but that gives you an idea of the costs.
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Forgive my complete ignorance, but when you say "retooled" is that like buying a set of dies? As in, you buy the machine to produce 9mm, then retool whenever needed to produce .40? Or would the machine then be for .40 only until it is again retooled?
 
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