Skatchewan:
When I was growing up there in the '60's it was pronounced Sskatchewan - sorta 2½ S's up front.
We left there in '84, so they might could have made an official change since then....
On the factory ammo front, here in the valley from what I've seen if you don't shoot a .223 or 7.62 Russian you'll take the lone box of ammo you've actually found on the shelf and then like as not run to the nearest purveyor of 649 tickets because this just HAS to be your lucky day!
Seriously, we only see Federal blue box for the most part and that'd be .243, .308, .270 and '06. As I said in my first post, I think I bought one of 5 boxes of 6.5x55 factory ammo in all of Kelowna.....
What is this choice thing you speak of????
I suppose next you're going to tell me you can buy Varget back east?
Dwayne