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 Royal by name, Royal by
nature
Author, Manny Giapitzakis puts Rio’s
new and improved range of “Royal Steel” waterfowling loads under the
microscope during the 2006 duck season.
Both the “Royal Steel 32” and “Royal Steel 36” waterfowl
loads have been completely redesigned with a change in loading components
to improve ballistic performance and overall bird bagging success. Having
used earlier versions of both these loads, I was keen to see what these
changes were and what they really meant in the real world of duck hunting.
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 RIO
GRANDE
(CLAYSHOOTINGUSA)
Richard Rawlingson visits UEE of Spain and finds things on
a much larger scale than anticipated.
“That’s the factory there,” said my guide, Sales and Operations Manager
for the US, Inigo Rodriguez, gesturing in the direction of a tall, heavily
forested mountain. Seeing nothing but 1000 feet of rock and trees, I must
have looked puzzled. “You can’t see much from here”, he admitted.
We were in the village of Galdacano, close to the city of Bilbao in
Northern Spain to visit the production facility of the UEE group’s
explosives division. It is here that the propellants for the company’s Rio
cartridges are made and I was to be given a crash course in gunpowder
production, the first call in a tour to see the whole cartridge making
process from start to finish. UEE is one of the very few companies in the
world that can do this, for only a handful of......(read
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 A
COMPANY YOU SHOULD GET TO KNOW
(AMERICAN FIREARMS)
Rio Ammunition: One of
the Biggest Ammo Companies in the World!
"There are dealers saying to themselves, "Rio Ammo, I never heard of
them". Rio Ammo in 2003 sold 550 million rounds of shotshell ammo in
80 countries. That makes them the biggest single shotshell manufacturer
in the world....(read
on) |
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