Swiss powder availability
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It appears that there is no Swiss as with other BP currently available in Canada at this time. It all disappeared of the shelves and magazines the Monday and Tuesday of the Goex announcement. Schuetzen is now in talks with someone in Ontario to make it more readily available in Canada. Almost non existent in the US as well. Been told that there are containers en route from Switzerland to the US and that some of that is destined for Canada. Lets just hope that Schuetzen and the Canadian distributer and retailers don't jack up the prices when it becomes available again . I don't see Schuetzen doing it though. I have not heard anything more if there is a buy out of Goex or not. I have heard from friends in PA that Bae Systems was looking at Goex. In a phone discussion with and I was told by Schuetzen that they are following Goex very closely but would not commit to saying that they would be interested in acquiring the Goex facility. Fingers crossed that good quality BP is available soon.
Here in UK, unaffected as we are by the closure of a US powder mill, Swiss has already had a hike by around 10%. There is a new kid on the block, though, with the introduction of a Polish mill that has been making the stuff since the late 1600's. They might know what they are doing, and I'm going to find out when my Swiss stuff has gone.
Tacfoley - instead of keeping all of in suspense in regard to this Polish powder why don't you show us this Polish powder and do a report on accuracy, fouling, compaction and all the rest of the pertinent details of a good powder report....
I shot a little bit of the Schuetzen powder in my .45-90 Borchardt. It shot pretty well at 200m, but I didn't try it at long range because the muzzle velocity was really low compared to swiss. I only bought a couple of pounds just to see how well it worked, but I think it could do well as long as you manage to keep the velocity variation to a minimum. It did shoot some reasonably good targets. I'll probably try it again at some point, depending on how the powder situation looks next year.
Chris.
Chris.
Well, as much as I'd like to help you out here, I'm just too mean to pay £65.10 per kilo - that's around Can$54 a pound, BTW, for stuff that I'd have to drive 140 miles each way to collect, with gasoline now costing Can$2.50 a litre. I intend to wait until a fellow club member with deeper pockets AND longer arms forks out on some, and offer to try it out for him with my little collection of BP firearms. I have a nice Pritchett Volunteer rifle made in 1858, just before he moved from St James, a P-H Whitworth and a P-H Musketoon to try for muzzleloading, and two very fine Canadian Sniders for the cartridge loads.
BTW, 'tac' is good for a first name, Foley is the last part of the family name - the rest is pretty much all French, and some of the initials were used to make the 'tac'. Truly thought I'd explone that long ago.
BTW, 'tac' is good for a first name, Foley is the last part of the family name - the rest is pretty much all French, and some of the initials were used to make the 'tac'. Truly thought I'd explone that long ago.
The Polish-made powder is a company called ZLOTY STOK. They do FFFFG to FG, and fine powder for priming.
Check out Henry Krank's site for further info. The Zloty Stok website doesn't appear to sell outside of Europe.
I bought 3 pounds of Schuetzen last year. Saving that for a rainy day.
Check out Henry Krank's site for further info. The Zloty Stok website doesn't appear to sell outside of Europe.
I bought 3 pounds of Schuetzen last year. Saving that for a rainy day.
