Unique ?smokless? power replacement

[Boondocker]

I love just plain clean Clays in my 45 acp,I am going to use my Unique in my new cast rifle loads, I have some 3030 loaded up allready.

[spurrit]

Since I ended up with Large rifle magnum primers by accident, I'm using them up in cast bullet loads. They work fine.

[Heavy lead]

IMO Clays (just plain) is the absolute best target 12 gauge powder I've ever used. Now with that said I have burned some Universal, but have since gone back to Unique, I like Unique better for three reasons. First it is bulkier, takes up more space and if there should be a double charge I can see it much easier, second IME Unique is cleaner, yes I really said it is cleaner, I don't shoot light loads, only medium power loads with Unique and my pressure is high enough to not get sooting and/or gunk, three, it shoots great, very accurate in almost everything I load in.
I have never had an issue with the labeling.

[dougader]

Are these the old labels, or the new ones? I think these are fairly easy to distinguish.

[Rocky Raab]

They appear to be new - or at least they match the shots on the Alliant website, as best as I can see.

On the other hand ... I just checked my own cans/labels. I have sample bottles of Clays and Universal from their first month of introduction and they look the same to me. Hmmmmm.

(Trivia note: When they introduced Clays, they made up sample bottles with just enough Clays to load one box of 12-ga trap loads. I was at a shoot where they handed out a truckload of those little bottles. When the shoot was over they had grundles of them left, and because I was driving home and not flying, they gave me a bunch of them. I still have some - unopened.)

[spurrit]

Are these the old labels, or the new ones? I think these are fairly easy to distinguish.

They used to look like the one on the left. They should put a label o top of the lid, in plain text, stating which iteration it is.

[joedapro]

There are THREE Clay's powders? I thought there was just universal and regular! They really oughta use better naming/labeling practices. When I first got into reloading, I went through several pounds before I realised I was using the wrong Clay's data!

why? do you get confused by the red ,green, blue or clay "dot" powders from aliant too.

[joedapro]

All I will say is, if I had only one pistol powder to load with...It would be Unique.

actually it is all i load with for paper punching and clays; 357, 45 colt, 223, 300 whisper, 300 wby mag, 35 remington and 12 gauge it works for all of them. i use unique in service rifle competition in the ar, bullseye competition, and in skeet. it wins, so i have no need for any other powder.

[spurrit]

why? do you get confused by the red ,green, blue or clay "dot" powders from aliant too.

if the labels look the same, I generally don't look too close. After the incident I mentioned, I started double checking.

[JustSomeGuy]

actually it is all i load with for paper punching and clays; 357, 45 colt, 223, 300 whisper, 300 wby mag, 35 remington and 12 gauge it works for all of them. i use unique in service rifle competition in the ar, bullseye competition, and in skeet. it wins, so i have no need for any other powder.

Hmm... I would love to see what bullet and what amount of Unique you are using in your AR Joedapro. That would make for an interesting experiment. I havent used Unique in a rifle since I had a 243 years ago and it worked very well indeed in that 7grns of it would put a 90 grn bullet through a 1/4 steel plate at 100 yards if I remember correctly. I wonder about cycling the action of the AR with a Unique load... please elaborate!

[spurrit]

NExt, we'll see a thread on cleaning lead and carbon out of your gas tube.

[Papa smurf]

I'm with joedapro and oldhickory---------------maybe thats why its called UNIQUE !!!!!!!!
good shooting-------------------------Papa Smurf