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Originally Posted by Jack Flash
One thing I have not seen explicitly addressed in this thread:
Has anybody compared the "new improved" Unique to the older Unique? Is there that much difference?
In fact, is everyone talking about the same Unique, or are some comments about one and some comments about the other? 
I have a can of the old stuff I'm trying to use up and an unopened can of the new stuff. I never thought the old stuff was all that dirty, especially if a good crimp is applied to each round. |
I have actually conducted that test as my old Unique is 20 years old.
The load is 6 grains of Unique under a 240 SWC in 44 Special.
The new Unique is marginally cleaner burning. Less smoke but I
still get unburned flakes on my hands unloading the shells.
Same performance on targets. The only difference I can tell is
the new stuff has more solvent to get high on <j/k>.
I am careful to not leave the powder on my sweaty hands as I have
had nitro headaches from that. Not good. My Dad took nitro and
I studied up on it's effects back then.
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Nemo