Petition for a Canadian bullet manufacturer

coyote said:
I have been tooling up for the past 4 months to make bullets I will be making .224 .243 .308 in rifle bullets and some handgun bullets as well in the most popular calibers.
I will also be making the necessary dies and punches to make other popular rifle bullets as time goes on, it is a lot of work to set up , each caliber requires many dies and punches and alot of midnight oil.The next on the list is 7mm so maybe you guys could let me know what you might like it would give me a better idea what will sell better .
I should have some bullets available shortly after the new year .
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Please pm me with your info and quanitites your planning on making in .224 and .308 I could do a minium 25000-50000 .224 FMJ if your able to do such an order.
 
CanAm said:
I just checked, KK was not bonded, it was a method of preventing jacket separation by creating "teeth" in the jacket to bite into the core (ala Rem Core-Lokt). I had assumed it was a hot core/bonded core process.
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I sort of thought so, but I wasn't sure. I recall the punctures through the jacket around the circumference of the bullet that produced the teeth.
 
coyote said:
I have been tooling up for the past 4 months to make bullets I will be making .224 .243 .308 in rifle bullets and some handgun bullets as well in the most popular calibers.
I will also be making the necessary dies and punches to make other popular rifle bullets as time goes on, it is a lot of work to set up , each caliber requires many dies and punches and alot of midnight oil.The next on the list is 7mm so maybe you guys could let me know what you might like it would give me a better idea what will sell better .
I should have some bullets available shortly after the new year .
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Oh, now you've done it . . . prepared to be over whelmed with orders. What bullet weights do you offer in .308?
 
boomer I will be making 150 165 and180gr in .308 and I plan on making a match bullet in 167 or 168gr by the spring also if there is enough interest I can make a 200gr.
 
hunter64 said:
In the early 90's there was a Ammo manufacturer that started up in southern Alberta. They produced good ammo and were going to start to sell bullets also but lasted only a couple of years and went out of business.

Lots of rumors to what went wrong but basically they couldn't compete with American manufacturers that were about the same cost and quality and had a good reputation behind there name.

For my .300 Win Mag I buy nosler bullets at about 1 box per year if that and the rest I cast my own.

Bullet Barn sells .45 acp rn 230 grn. bullets for about 150.00 per thousand, cast 1000 bullets yourself and you have just paid for a lee melting pot, a 6 cavity mold and lee sizer and some lube. Cast another 1000 and you have paid for a lube sizer and a die. From now on if you want a different bullet then you buy the mold, cast 500 with it and it has paid for itself.
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Yes, I once had some +P 38 Special SWCHP from this now gone Alberta company and it was good ammo.
 
coyote said:
I have been tooling up for the past 4 months to make bullets I will be making .224 .243 .308 in rifle bullets and some handgun bullets as well in the most popular calibers.
I will also be making the necessary dies and punches to make other popular rifle bullets as time goes on, it is a lot of work to set up , each caliber requires many dies and punches and alot of midnight oil.The next on the list is 7mm so maybe you guys could let me know what you might like it would give me a better idea what will sell better .
I should have some bullets available shortly after the new year .
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120gr, 140gr, and 160gr would be nice :)
 
Well, Just placed another order with BDX bullets; another 2000 of the 52grHP. Apparently they are not currently making this bullet, but they are going to be getting the dies to do so. In my new Rem 700, 1/2 inch at 100 yards at $12.50 per 100; they got my business any day!!! I choose to support Canadian manufacturers in a climate where American bullets may become unavailable.............what about the rest of you guys?
HORRAY BDX BULLETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike
p.s. other Canadian manufacturers PM'd me as well........pays to be positive!
 
Coyote, Quick question, how much was the lab testing? I was told that the process more or less was to produce said caliber rounds,send rounds and packaging to be tested at their (M.N.R) approved lab. And that if all was good a licence to manufacture and sell would be issued.
 
oriordan said:
Coyote, Quick question, how much was the lab testing? I was told that the process more or less was to produce said caliber rounds,send rounds and packaging to be tested at their (M.N.R) approved lab. And that if all was good a licence to manufacture and sell would be issued.
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Lab testing is only for ammo.

Basically, you contact NRCAN-ERD, submit the application forms, and they will request samples be sent to CERL. CERL will send you pricing and a contrat for the testing. You send the samples to them, they report back to NRCAN and they approve, or not. Last test we ran was about $1200 for 2 items.
 
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