Who remembers Alcan?

[kerreckt]

Wow, I haven't thought about Alcan in years. I used it to reload 16ga with my Lee hand loader and later to reload 41 mag for my S&W 57. Still have the Winchester mdl.12/16ga. shotgun but sold the S&W 57 years ago. Wish I hadn't done that. That's another thing that is great about this forum. It wakes the sleeping nearly dead memory cells and brings back a flood of memories. Thanks for this one.

 

[Salmoneye]

I still have cases of Alcan fiber wads...

 

[PapaG]

Snuff....Bangor punta was the mega group that controlled s&w, Harley, skampercampers, Alan, and a whole pile of other stuff. It was in the 70's, actually. I still have a lot of s&w ammo made by Alcan. Used to pay 56 cents per hundred for the primers for our gun shop. Shot shells were great for first shot, horrible to reload. I have horror stories about having to buy amounts of s&w "related" stuff to get our smiths at dealer cost.

 

[jr_roosa]

How about these:


Untitled by jr_roosa, on Flickr

When my dad gave me all his leftover reloading gear, there were 2000 Alcan small pistol primers. I'm down to my last 100.

They look silly next to the monster boxes of modern primers, don't they?

-J.

 

[kingmt]

jason2011419
You would be better starting you're own post. Most of the people here can't get past reading the title & don't even see all there dust showing this had been reopened for some reason.

 

[gifford]

Yep, sure do, used Alcan 7 (I think) for my Lee Loader reloading the 12 guage in High School and College. Worked well for trap, birds and ducks.

 

[returningfire]

Yep, I have some 20 hulls that I still load and shoot. I don't know if I will ever be able to wear them out.

 

[Offfhand]

Quoted fro post above:

"I still have cases of Alcan fiber wads..."

Those were the beautiful days, I loaded thousands of them too and would happily do it again. Thank you for reminding me, and all of us. And especially today's generation who will never know the pleasure of stacking fiber wads and nitro cards together and loading those delicious smelling paper cases.

 

[jr_roosa]

Most of the people here can't get past reading the title & don't even see all there dust showing this had been reopened for some reason.

Guilty. Sorry for participating in thread necromancy.

It is funny how all you have to do is mention some bygone brand and we all sit back in our rocking chairs and talk about the good old days when everything cost a nickel.

-J.

 

[Elkins45]

I have several pounds of AL-8 in a jug that I bought at a gun store in Owensboro. I suspect it came from Bartlett's. It's some odd stuff--when I shoot it only about half the grains actually burn. I think it's slowly losing all of its oomph.

 

[bigdogpete]

I seem to remember using AL-8 for something. Long time ago.

I use to reload magnum 12ga. with AL-8. I still have a some in a can.

 

[Bill The Body]

I'm very interested in purchasing Alcan wads! Can you help?

 

[X-Ring]

https://www.precisionreloading.com/cart.php#!l=AL

This place has 20, 28 and 410 Alcan fiber wads

 

[PapaG]

I still have a few hundred Alcan 220 MaxFire primers for shotgun as well as some for rifle and pistol. A can or two of AL8. Quite a few boxes of S&W ammo that was Alcan/Fiocci back in the Bangor-Punta days.
I even have a couple of the 4-box plastic carrying boxes for shotshells that S&W sold.
Just found one box of S&W 12 ga shotshells with the Alcan stamp on the bottom.
Thanks for the memories. Not all good. The shotshells were great for one shot but didn't reload worth a darn.

 

[kerreckt]

I remember using Alcan powder (AL8?) to reload .41mag for my model 57 which I sold back in he early 1990's. I still have some 16ga. wads from Alcan.

 

[DM~]

The colorful Alcan cans are now collectors' items. Wish I had saved more of them.

I have several can's of it too, probably 8 or 10 can's ?? maybe more....

They sure had cool looking cans!

DM