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thx997303
11-16-2010, 07:13 PM
Alright, we all know you can use Unique in 45-70 trapdoor loads, but I can't fin a published unique load anywhere.

Do any of you have a max load for a 350 gr (or close) boolit with unique at trapdoor pressures?

Edited to add: I'm not looking at loading to max, I'm just looking for a max load so I know where to stop.

mooman76
11-16-2010, 08:42 PM
I found a load in Lyman 47 but it's for a 405gr jacketed bullet. 11-15gr. I used it in mine with the 405gr lead boolit and I ran in up to 14.5 gr and had pressure signs so I stopped. That was with a filler of COW.

Doc Highwall
11-16-2010, 09:16 PM
I use to use 10grains of unique with a Lyman 457124 385 grain bullet at 930fps. out of a trapdoor.

thx997303
11-16-2010, 09:29 PM
Thank you mooman, that's exactly what I needed.

I had found stuff suggesting 15 gr was max, but nothing substantial.

I'll check in Lyman 47 and verify what you wrote, but at least I know where to find it now.

Thank you.

geargnasher
11-16-2010, 10:40 PM
I was going to say ten grains, that's the universal Unique load, isn't it? :kidding:

Gear

thx997303
11-16-2010, 10:54 PM
That was the start load. :-)

Silent
11-17-2010, 01:10 PM
I was going to say ten grains, that's the universal Unique load, isn't it? :kidding:

Gear

I wonder if I can pack 10 grains into my 9mm :kidding:

Larry Gibson
11-17-2010, 01:24 PM
Years back I also found upwards of 15 gr of Unique suggested for cast bullets of 385 gr (457483) as I was looking for loads for some 350 gr Greer cast bullets. I worked up to 13 gr in my 26" H&R OM TD. I was using a 1 gr dacron filler also. I stopped at 13 gr which gave 1333 fps, 13 fps SD, and 35 fps ES for a 10 shot string over an Oehler M35P. Accuracy was very good.

Larry Gibson

thx997303
11-17-2010, 06:20 PM
I wonder if I can pack 10 grains into my 9mm :kidding:

You gotta use a compression die. [smilie=l:

home in oz
11-17-2010, 08:12 PM
I used 10 grains of Unique with a 385 grain boolit.

It shot several inches above point of aim with a trapdoor...

MtGun44
11-18-2010, 12:46 AM
Ten gr of unique is fine in a 9mm, as long as you use a 385 gr 9mm boolit. . . . . . .

Hope it takes you a long time to find that mold and compression die. ;-)

Bill

Silent
11-18-2010, 12:54 AM
I figgured out how to do it, I'ma take my 125gr 356637 boolit and load it upside down! The hollow point should hold the extra powder!

:groner:

thx997303
11-18-2010, 12:14 PM
You need a hydraulic press. [smilie=1:

leftiye
11-18-2010, 10:54 PM
We all do.