snert
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Snert, help us all out U wrote..."Now I don't do it anymore. I would explore trailboss for reduced loads. Running Unique for speed is a fast way to lose your eyeballs." Is the stuff still safe in reduced loads??..Has the formulation changed ?? Now you have me nervous..TIA, Mike
Well, too many guys talked about sudden unexplained high pressures. I stopped using it in 220 swift because it was a tiny amount of powder in a big case (even though I was getting tiny 1 hole 35 yard groups and it smashed tree squirrels). It required puf-lon or a dacron and I got tired of cleaning that out of my barrel.
In the 222 i stopped because I later read a white paper by a reloading manufacturer that talked about these mysterious blow-ups with light powder charges and big cases. I do not recall exactly what it said, but basically it meant sometimes it all goes boom at once instead of progressively. That was enough for me to just buy a good rimfire and a 17 HMR.
Now, could I be convinced to do it again in a 222....maybe. Groups were just awesome and squirrels died to 60 yards, POA/POI. It will smoke a gray or fox squirrel.
As far as I know Unique has not changed. it is an old, useful, dirty pistol powder that used to be CHEAP. i still have 1/4 pound and I started with only 3/4 in 1977. it don't take much to run a duece at 1700FPS.