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Phone 2230 H. J. DORAN, Proprietor
WESTVIEW B.C.

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The Men's Shop

A FULL LINE OF
MEN'S WEAR

GIBSONS B.C.

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Phone 32

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SECHELT B.C.

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TWO STORES
GIBSONS and SECHELT

Page Thirty-eight

it needs is a little care, and your am-
munition costs will be cut to a fifth.

Reloading Equipment

Here’s an outline of what the pro-
cess entails:

The fired (or empty) case is passed
into a die which returns it to normal
width (if there has been any expan-
sion), punches out the used primer,
presses in a new one, and puts a very
slight bell on the lip of the case.
Then each shell is filled with the
exact measurement of powder re-
quired and a fresh cast bullet is in-
serted in the throat of the case.
Through the tool they go again to
have the bullet pressed down to its
proper depth in the case, and slightly
crimped. Your shell is complete. And,
as I say, if sufficient care is taken with
each of the processes the product
compares favorably with that of the
factory. In any event, who can hold
with that steadiness that will dlis-
tinguish the difference. Unless the
home load is a very crude job, it will
take a bench rest test to show up the
imperfections.

‘There are a number of handloading
tools on the market and the acces-
sories that go with them. Most of them
can be found in the advertising sec-
tion of the “American Rifleman,” the
National Rifle Association’s monthly.

The actual tools range from the
Ideal, which looks like a_ nickel-
plated nutcracker and does more for
the dollar than anything I’ve ever
heard of, to the Pesco which turns the
stuff out in quantities. The Ideal is
the simplest tool of the lot, the most
inexpensive, but its output is restrict-
ed. With it you can handle a great
many of the popular calibres in pistol
and rifle cartridges. With but one
slight modification this tool has been
turned out by the Ideal people for
close to half a century. Then there is
the slightly more complicated Pacific.
‘This clamps to a bench and handles
moderate quantities of ammunition
and does a splendid accurate job. The
output would be about a hundred
rounds an hour and for a small group
this might be sufficient for practice
needs.

There are quite a number of mod-
erately priced bench type tools of the
fairly simple Pacific type, some
work vertically, some horizontally. Up
through the range we come to the
Pesco, which is a quantity production
job for the larger departments. It is
claimed, and I believe correctly, that

two men operating a Pesco can turn
out about a thousand or eleven hun-
dred rounds an hour. It’s truly a most
ingenious machine, the powder,
primers and cases all self-feeding. It’s
on one of these machines that the
B.C. Police turned out more than
half a million practice rounds in the
past 12 years. Pesco is marketed by the
Police Equipment Supply Company of
Chicago.
Reloading Accessories

Other accessories required with the
reloading tool are bullet moulds,
powder measures, sizing and lubri-
cating tool, a melting pot and ladle,
and of course primers, powder, lead,
tin and bullet lubricant. Primers are
always available through the Am-
munition Division of C.I.L., as well
as pistol powder (Dupont No. 6).
Practice bullets are cast from a mix-
ture of 96 parts of lead and four parts
of tin, and the bullets are lubricated
with a hard grease (beeswax and vase-
line if you care to make it up yourself)
or marketed in sticks, if you buy it.

Before any expenditure is made on
equipment it is as well to settle upon
the calibre of ammunition you wish
to load, for this is naturally depend-
ent upon the arms available. It does
happen in small departments that
there are men carrying weapons of
different makes and calibres. I would

Phone 8111

FLETCHER MEN’S WEAR LTD.
“KEN and WALT”

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