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.
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.
Since I ended up with Large rifle magnum primers by accident, I'm using them up in cast bullet loads. They work fine.
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.
Are these the old labels, or the new ones? I think these are fairly easy to distinguish.
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.)
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!
NExt, we'll see a thread on cleaning lead and carbon out of your gas tube.
I'm with joedapro and oldhickory---------------maybe thats why its called UNIQUE !!!!!!!!
good shooting-------------------------Papa Smurf
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BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |