Handloading
Handloads on the road: *150 kilograms*, boxes included
Canada's 150 kg transport exemption counts completed cartridges and their boxes. UN0012 starts the legal check; containment and the other conditions finish it.
Handloading
Components, powder availability, bench process, load development, and Canadian reloading context. Start with the Handloading In Canada pillar, then use the archive for running notes.
Handloading
Canada schedules nitrocellulose production for *2029*
Canada schedules domestic nitrocellulose production for 2029 and has committed $355.7 million to Valleyfield. Civilian sporting-powder supply has no published promise.
Precision
With *.22* expected this autumn, Hirsch points buyers to dealers
Hirsch Precision expects an autumn rimfire order, with almost all headed to Canadian dealers. The forecast gives buyers a reason to ask about allocation and matching ammunition lots.
Handloading
Lake Echo *decides* your next cartridge
Berger's new 6mm bullet won in Utah. For Canadian reloaders, Lapua's catalogue and the distributor in Lake Echo say more about which cartridge belongs on the next barrel.
Gear
Your scope has never been on a *counter-tariff* list
Finance Canada's August 25 new-measure table has 629 tariff items. None is a firearm, cartridge, propellant powder, primer or riflescope. The upstream steel exposure is another matter.
Gear
Lyman Brass Smith Case Trim Xpress *review* after a year on the bench
After more than a year, two failed trimmers, and more than 2,000 cases across nine cartridges, the Lyman Brass Smith Case Trim Xpress has earned a permanent spot on my bench. It only trims. That turns out to be enough.
Handloading
An American label, an Australian origin
Finance Canada's new counter-tariff list works by tariff item and origin. Its current table has no 36.01 propellant-powder entry, while Hodgdon says H4350 is made in Australia.
Precision
An August zero carries two temperatures
A cold-season zero changes through the powder and the atmosphere. Write both conditions down before November asks the rifle to prove them.
Handloading
In an apartment, an eight-pound jug leaves three pounds
Section 302 gives a non-detached dwelling a 20 kg smokeless-powder limit until any one container holds more than 1 kg. Then the total ceiling is 5 kg.
Gear
AMP MARK II DB annealer review
After roughly 3,500 cases and eight months of weekly use, the AMP MARK II DB has made annealing a repeatable part of Steve's reloading workflow.
Handloading
Sixty-four dollars on the ground
Fifty new Hornady .308 cases cost C$63.95 at one Ontario retailer. The same replacement value can be lying on a range floor, after permission and inspection.
Handloading
CamPro put .311 back in the catalogue
CamPro's current 180-grain .311 plated-bullet listing gives Canadian .303 owners a component lead. The public load-data centre leaves the recipe question open.