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. In fact I have my uncle's "sporterized" Lee-Enfield, which he purchased from a barrel full of them at a local Coast to Coast hardware store.

It's too bad that ammo under the Imperial / Dominion brand could not be made here and sold to the CDN market. It would have to be the main line sellers (30-06, 303, 308, 223 etc) and be sold in the big box stores to anchor the line.

The population here is under 40 million and a lot of those folks are in cities and thus not shooters making the ammo market fairly small. I was in Canadian Tire here in SJ yesterday and the there was lots of rifle ammo there as long as you wanted 35Whelen, 25-06 and 243. All else was N/A. I live in a city area of over 100k population and cannot buy powder here.

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Yep, the stores here in Montana generally carried some Dominion ammo when I was a kid, especially in "Canadian" cartridges like the .303 British. Lee-Enfields were quite popular here as hunting rifles, partly because they were inexpensive, but partly because they worked. In fact I have my uncle's "sporterized" Lee-Enfield, which he purchased from a barrel full of them at a local Coast to Coast hardware store.