Thread: Colonial Ammunition Company - History

Originally Posted by rockland

CAC ammo was disappearing from the shops by the time I turned 16 in 1987 but came across a bit of it over the years since.
With strong import controls you would think they had a captive market however the quality was pretty ho-hum when compared to Winchester and other international brands.
A big nail in CAC's coffin was the "High Flyer" drama. High Flyer was a 12 gauge high velocity 1 1/4 oz load of 4,5 or 6 shot in a modern compression-formed case marketed as a duck load. Anyway one batch of these shells blew up a bunch of older SxS guns and injured a few shooters. Read a report of tests which duplicated the effect by placing a live primer in the powder charge and hinted at industrial sabotage!

Must be a good story there for someone to research. I have met guys who still had full boxes of High Flyer in their ammo cupboards,many years later.

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Prol hasnt seen the light of day for 20yrs, interesting back story when i went to give to an older mate