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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4482 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	The uniqueness of Unique Nov 6^th, 2019 at 2:57pm	Print Post
	I'm sure Unique was named for its capability of being used in such a wide range of cartridges, however I must report, somewhat shamefacedly, I discovered another unique property of it. If you turn over a Harrell's measure to remove the bottle which is half full of Unique and you haven't put the blue plug in said bottle, the Unique can take wings and fly! Everywhere, all over, into everything, on everything, in your lap. And, its quantity expands exponentially! Really amazing and quite Unique. I do not plan to repeat the experiment for the benefit of U-Tube or some similar mass audience sharing app, thank you.


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Schutzenbob Frequent Elocutionist Offline Rheinisch-Westfälisc hen Sprengstoff-Fabriken Posts: 2286 Location: Nightingale, California Joined: Oct 24^th, 2005	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #1 - Nov 6^th, 2019 at 3:05pm	Print Post
	I've began to use Winchester WSF, which is a ball powder and is the approximate equivalent of Unique. It has about the same buring rate and is somewhat cleaner, but as always, your milage may vary.
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GrumpyBear Full Member Offline Posts: 139 Location: Western,Pa. Joined: Sep 30^th, 2017	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #2 - Nov 6^th, 2019 at 3:19pm	Print Post
	Schutzenbob wrote on Nov 6^th, 2019 at 3:05pm: I've began to use Winchester WSF, which is a ball powder and is the equivalent of Unique. It has about the same buring rate and is somewhat cleaner, but as always, your milage may vary. May well give that a try after I use up my 12 lbs. of Unique, may take a little while though.

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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4482 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #3 - Nov 6^th, 2019 at 5:02pm	Print Post
	Most of the charts and the talk say WSF is more like Herco, for what that is worth.


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noylj Participating Member Offline Posts: 16 Joined: Feb 22^nd, 2014	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #4 - Nov 6^th, 2019 at 7:21pm	Print Post
	Another very versatile powder is True Blue.


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18073 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #5 - Nov 6^th, 2019 at 7:58pm	Print Post
	Unique was one of the first powders I ever loaded with, and still one of my favorites! Haven't tried the flying powder act with it, but sounds a bit messy.

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oneatatime Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4482 Location: Rocky Mountains Joined: Oct 30^th, 2011	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #6 - Nov 6^th, 2019 at 8:44pm	Print Post
	Vall, don't do it;-)


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beltfed Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1826 Location: Central Wi Joined: Dec 20^th, 2007	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #7 - Nov 6^th, 2019 at 10:02pm	Print Post
	Static cling as we get into the cold , dry air weather. I have a bared copper light cord I loop around the plastic hopper of my powder measure and ground to my electrical system seems to help reduce those grains from crawling around. beltfed/arnie


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craigd Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2059 Location: midwest Joined: Feb 22^nd, 2009	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #8 - Nov 6^th, 2019 at 10:05pm	Print Post
	If Unique expands like that, I might try to carefully spill some everytime the stock starts getting low.


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Just Jim Full Member Online Posts: 212 Joined: May 11^th, 2019	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #9 - Nov 7^th, 2019 at 11:31am	Print Post
	Years ago, a staff writer for the magazine I was editing pitched an article on Unique. It struck me as a pretty narrow topic, but infact, it proved to be one of his most interesting! In the article, he explained that there is a reference sample of Unique from one of the earliest production lots. It is kept stored in water (!) and from time to time a small sample is dried out and tested to ensure current batches are true to the original performance standard. This was 20-some years ago, so perhaps the practice has been abandoned, but I found that quite fascinating!


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marlinguy Frequent Elocutionist Offline Ballards may be weaker, but they sure are neater! Posts: 18073 Location: Oregon Joined: Feb 2^nd, 2009	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #10 - Nov 7^th, 2019 at 12:13pm	Print Post
	When I started reloading in the 70's my mentor discussed Unique with me. One of his comments has always stuck, just because it was humorous. He said, "I think Moses used Unique in his loads." He said a lot of his oldest loading manuals had loads for Unique.

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Rebel Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 4292 Location: Rockets and Race Cars Joined: Mar 9^th, 2015	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #11 - Nov 7^th, 2019 at 12:51pm	Print Post
	It was on the 3rd one (You need to *Login* or *Register* to view media files and links)

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Old Soldier Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 361 Location: North Pole, Alaska Joined: Oct 17^th, 2015	Re: The uniqueness of Unique Reply #12 - Nov 22^nd, 2019 at 10:56pm	Print Post
	Prior to Obama's first election, I read the writing on the wall and started stocking up on among other things Unique. It may not be the best in anything, but it's pretty durn good in most everything. I use it in all of my handguns, and many of my rifles with cast bullets. If I can only buy 1 powder, I'll buy Unique.

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