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Originally Posted by Texas Star
I've loaded some ammo with Unique, which went well, but it's a little smoky.
I'v'e read that Clays burns cleaner.
Is that so, and do you otherwise have any preference for it over Unique?
Use is mainly for medium to heavy handgun ammo. I usually wouldn't load many light-for-caliber bullets. I don't expect it to replace 2400, 296, etc. for really heavy loads.
So, apart from cleaner burning, a real advantage, is there much to choose between Unique and Universal Clays?
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You need to be careful when talking about powders. In the title and first sentence you talk about Clays then you talk about Universal Clays. They are two completely different powders with drastically different burn rates.
Like said above, there are 3 powders in the Clays family, Clays, International Clays and Universal Clays. That order is fastest to slowest. Hodgdon made a mistake IMO in the naming, too much confusion.
I think Universal meters better than Unique but they are pretty much interchangeable in application but not load weights. One note, Universal can spike pressures when loaded to the top of the pressure range.