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    Wow, Cheap Unique

    I was prowling my LGS yesterday and spied a 4lb jug of Unique for $69.95! Just mu luck, a deal on powder that I don't need. I would love to think this is a harbinger of prices to come, but I'm not holding my breath.
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    I would have bought it anyway. That's why I'm always broke.........

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    I would have but during the Obama yrs, all I could get my hands on in that range was Accurate #5, so I put my guns on a diet of that.
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    I'd have bought it too.


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    Buy all they have at that price. If there is something that be loaded outside the big magnum with it im sure what it is
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    I would have grabbed it too.
    Its got a pretty broad application.

    I've always liked it for 9mm & .45ACP. It does a good job, and if you ever double charge a case, it more or less over flows it.
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    "A powder that I don't need ..." WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? Bite your tongue and buy it anyway!

    I may have passed my "Best Before" date, but I haven't reached my "Expiry" date!

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    I showed them at the LGS when they had 1/2 price sale on powder!!!! I didn’t NEED 4 more pounds of Unique, but did I let it pass ? Heck no, I didn’t! $13.48 a pound for fresh powder. Uhhh, yeah.And if they put the rest of it on sale at half price, well, I won’t need any more powder ,period! Nor will any of my reloader friends either.
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    Let's see Unique works in every pistol cartridge known to man with every bullet , cept' maybe Barnes . It works in almost every rifle cartridge , at the risk of turning everything into a neck up/down 30/30 or 45-65 . It's a staple of the 12, 16 , and some 20 gauge lead loads up through 1 1/8 oz 12 , 1 1/16 oz 16 and 1 oz 20 game loads . You get something between 2,000 and 280 per lb and it's best buy at Midway for 19/lb plus shipping in 8# cans and you balked at $17+ tax ? Buy 2 4# and dump them together seal it up and be happy when it's back up to $30/lb when you can get it in 2026 .

    I have 3 4s of one lot open and an 8 sealed and when the 1968 keg is empty the 3 partial 4s are going in that unless the emptied 4350 is the same size as the 8# Unique .
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    sure beats cabels price, 40 bucks a pound, I left it on their shelf. if I found it for the price you say the entire shelf would follow me home.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GARD72977 View Post
    I would have bought it anyway. That's why I'm always broke.........
    Me Too !
    Broke , but I won't be short on powder after the next election and buying panic .
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    Quote Originally Posted by Reverend Al View Post
    "A powder that I don't need ..." WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? Bite your tongue and buy it anyway!

    AL, I happen to agree , but my line of thinking is........"A powder that I don't need" ?????? Is there such a thing?
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    Never too much powder or a powder I can't use except maybe something for the 50 BMG that I don't have anyway. The last Unique I bought was not factory fresh but it was $10 a pound! I added it to the stash I already had of the 15 pound keg for $75 out the door at the big Tulsa gunshow many years ago now. Properly stored powders will last a lifetime. Primers also fall into the same category, buy plenty and store them properly. Unique at that price is a good buy today! Buy it you will find a use for it.
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    You made a mistake not buying it. I will buy ANY powder that is cheap and can be used in the calibers I shoot.

    I had never used Clean Shot and bought 35 lbs on sale.
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    I just bought a 4 lb jug for $86, at $70 I would have bought at least 2!

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    What does "need" have to do with any of this?

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    What did you say was the address of the gun store that had the Unique powder? Too bad I'm in PA.

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    I know it was a steal, but I have a LOT of powder now and my powder closet runneth over. The Obama years broke me from being primer/powder challenged!
    IT AINT what ya shoot--its how ya shoot it. NONE of us are as smart as ALL of us!

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    I went to a show recently and got a fresh 8 pounder of Unique for $134. Wasn't about to pass that up!

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    Quote Originally Posted by murf205 View Post
    I know it was a steal, but I have a LOT of powder now and my powder closet runneth over. The Obama years broke me from being primer/powder challenged!
    Zero time taught alot for how it might be in the times to follow . I am stock up and I was not short of powder or primers but stack up anyways. It was 22lr that I limited on how I use it now I am stock up on it I see what time will show on how things go.Might get more powder. When I get it new I put and sticker on it with the date I got it that way I know what is the oldest to use first. Same as primers I do the same.
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