During the month of November 2002 I took a trip to Amotfors, Sweden to perform pressure tests on the 6mm/52 SMc cartridge at the Norma Precision AB test facility. By a strange coincidence that time period just happened to be the height of the moose-hunting season in the vicinity of Amotfors. Torbjorn Lindskog, the CEO of Norma was kind enough to allow me to hunt on the Norma hunting properties with their target/competition sales distributors one weekend of the hunt. (More on that later.) I also had the opportunity to tour the Nexplo (Bofors) powder plant at Orebro where Alliant and Norma canister smokeless powders are manufactured. Torb and Christer Larsson, Chief Ballistician at Norma have been very generous and supportive of McPherson's and my efforts to develop the SMc line of cartridges. They are excited about the potential market. Christer worked very hard, side by side with me, to perform these tests, along with Jan-Aki Hult and several other test technicians. They were all wonderful, providing the help, knowledge, facilities and support for this test project.

Days were short that time of year in the Varmland district of Sweden with sunrise at about 9 am and sunset at 3:30 p.m. The scenery was fantastic as shown in this picture of sunrise, figure 1, taken from Christer's office desk. I have to say it was really REALLY cold. I do not think it ever got up to freezing while I was there. It snowed twice, total depth about 3