Ah... Louisiana! It was in New Orleans in 1980 that I loaded my first revolver loads... of course it was the .38 Special. Ended up with great results. Used Skeeter Skelton's suggested load... 5.0 gr. of Unique and a 158/160 gr. LSWC. I've found different types of bullet lubricant produce varying amounts of soot. For my purposes, Unique has produced excellent results for me in .38/.357 and .45ACP rounds. I will also mention that I shoot a lot of vintage military rifle matches. In 1985 I came up with a load for my Remington 03-A3 rifle using Unique and a swaged lead bullet made by a now defunct company named Albertus. That load would shoot into 2.0 inches at 100 yds. Nowadays I use a 165 gr. hardcast lead bullet by Hunter Supply in my Remington 03 rifle loaded over a mere 8.0 gr. of Unique. It routinely averages 96.9 for 10 shots fired prone slow-fire at 100 yds. From a benchrest it will stay well within the 10 ring of a SR-1 target. I'm sure there are other powders available that will do a better job in particular usages. But I have since 1980 very much enjoyed using Unique in a broad variety of calibers.

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