Powder alert!!

[Mus408]

BassPro has Unique powder back in stock! I just placed my order.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

That's good news, even if, in the pattern of my typical luck, Unique is the only one I'm NOT short on! Guess that leaves more for the rest of y'all? :lol:

Rick C

 

[Mus408]

Shops around here haven't seen any in a good while and at last gun show only one vender had a pound or two and wanted 40 bucks for it. So when I see some I buy it if the price is right.

 

[m657]

So just how much variation in the typical pistol loads do you folks using Unique figure on?

My 650 Dillon produces way too much charge-to-charge variance with Unique for me to be at all comfortable using it.

I'm not so OCD to not adapt to +/- 0.1 g....but typically it's more....way more...regardless of my recipe/caliber.

Just wondering.....

 

[Chuck 100 yd]

I don`t normally use Unique due to it`s poor metering. Others don`t seem to have that trouble or they just don`t check or care.

 

[Mus408]

On my 550B I see about .2 variation and I do random checks as I load.

 

[Cheesewhiz]

My local LGS has done a very good job, a little spotty but very good compared to other LGS's, Cabelas or Bass Pros in getting powders in stock locally. The online vendors have been just killing me. I mostly use pistol/shotgun powders and I can normally find my fair share of one powder or another about every week now, two months ago it was a completely different story. They get Titegroup in pretty much on a regular basis and enough where it basically is always in stock, not a favorite of mine but an okay plinking powder, 231/HP-38 are there most of the time picked another 3#'s again this week. I also picked up 5#'s of Hodgdon CFE Pistol, which is a fine powder. The two that I really haven't seen yet that are favorites are WSF and Power Pistol, maybe that will change soon. The prices are bumped up a bit about a dollar or two more than last year but with all that has gone on I can't complain. I'm down to just a bit more than 5000 Remington 1 1/2 SPP but I can get those fairly easily and I have plenty of LPP, mostly Winchesters. Life is not great but it's getting better for me at least. Bullets will become an issue as I normally buy in large bulk, I've been out of work, on workman's comp for almost two months after a bus decided to T-bone me in lovely California and put me in the hospital for three weeks during a business travel gig. It's funny cause I really can't shoot as all my ribs are broken on my weak side and I just can't get it together with any consistency, I'm told that could take another 6 to 8 weeks after my last tests today. I know I'm an idiot and I should just wait but I can't completely, that would make me crazier.

 

[Chuck 100 yd]

Cheesewhiz, Get well soon!
Powder availability seems to be easing some here too. I picked up some at the local gun show last month.