Also posted under Cartridge Collecting, it seems Kynoch Ammunition may be no more. Liquidators were appointed on 29th May 2025 for the family owned Kynamco, initiated by creditors and members (family?).
The Kynamco shooting range was closed down in May with the owner, David Little who heads Kynamco, not being allowed on site due to his suffering dementia.

Obviously there is a chance someone could buy the company and continue production although by all accounts it has been on the market for sometime.

Hopefully this does not have too greater impact on Woodleigh and Bertram, who supplied Kynoch with bullets and cases.

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Hopefully this does not have too greater impact on Woodleigh and Bertram, who supplied Kynoch with bullets and cases.

If they were just loading others people cases and bullets.

Not much of a lost.

If there is a market and money to be made some one will pick it up.

I hate to hear that David Little has dementia. What a bloody shame.

He has done more than most for shooters of classic cartridges, for African big game hunters and for the shooting and hunting industries as a whole.

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
I hate to hear that David Little has dementia. What a bloody shame.

He has done more than most for shooters of classic cartridges, for African big game hunters and for the shooting and hunting industries as a whole.

+1.

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
I hate to hear that David Little has dementia. What a bloody shame.

He has done more than most for shooters of classic cartridges, for African big game hunters and for the shooting and hunting industries as a whole.

+2

David was (and hopefull is) a true gentleman, gun-nut and specialist in NE-calibers.
Vice, soft-spoken, intelligent, british humour.

I had made two events with him in Germany and had great conversations.

Also I visit him at Kynoch HQ, this was two great days. To see (and feel and handle) all his stuff...
Great.

Allways the best for him.

A friend stopped by KYNAMCO after the big Rigby Bash. Production is shut down and all equipment has been shipped off to auction. Just dies and handloading tools, no machinery. SURPRISE!!

I heard from another UK source that some recent batches of Kynoch ammo has been tested and found to be 20% OVER PROOF Pressures!! This would be dangerous in great old British double rifles.

David and Sue are great people. I hope a good ammo maker picks up the brand and keeps our Doubles popping into the future as they have!!

I wish them the best.

Be wary of remaining inventories!! I'm buying Federal, Hornady and Norma for my doubles!!

There was rumor coming out of GAME FAIR last week, there was an 11th hour buyer of KYNAMCO, maker of KYNOCH Ammo!! The buyer is said to be "A BIG Hunter."

This is great news for double rifle shooters and hunters.

I'm anxious to learn more!!

That would be great for the nitro express community.

I enquired here close to ten years ago about Kynamco 500/450 31/4” ammo and back then it was $25 per shot. I will stick to handloading I do use David’s foam wads.

If memory serves me right, when Kynamco started producing ammo for doubles and in particular those calibers that had become "obsolete", the new batches that came on to the market were dicey as most of their loads did not match the originals produced by Kynoch on which DRs were regulated to shoot.

I do remember the warning label on each box which read "These cartridges have been loaded with a modified propellant and may shoot at a different point of impact" ... or somewhere along those lines.

I also remember that my original Kynoch .450 Rigby cartridges which had a bad habit of hang-firing or not firing at all, were loaded with cordite which Kynamco substituted with Nitro Cellulose hence the different points of impact.

Hopefully this has been rectified since then.

I saw this on a recent visit to Peter Johnstone’s Cawston Block in Zimbabwe…



Maybe ANFO is their focus these days?

AN is/was a very popular commodity among the "dynamite" fishermen along East African coastal waters.

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Originally posted by fulvio:
AN is/was a very popular commodity among the "dynamite" fishermen along East African coastal waters.

Seen it used at Wazo Hill also - a little diesel, half the amount of C4 and away you go....

ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil) basically, tannerite with diesel instead of aluminum powder.

It’s amazing what just 5 lbs of AN can do. We have all seen what a Ryder truck full can do to a building!