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Iv heard alot of talk the all reloading stuff and ammo going up 20% next month, hope it's not true!

Ah, but Grasshopper it is true. In fact it's already happened.

earlier this past year, they had it at Sportsman's Warehouse, in several 4 pound containers...

With a military discount, $113 out the door. No sales tax here in Oregon...

On three different trips over 6 weeks or so, I bought 3 or 4 of the four pound jugs.





Also loading approximately 9 grains in a bolt action 223, played with it last spring shooting steel at 300 and 400 yds
Went thru a little over a pound in 5 months... 750 rounds or so...

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Was using Unique yesterday. Sticker on it was $23. I have enough.

Used up the last of my Unique ~$20/lb a couple weeks ago. Have a little Bullseye to use up left but have switched to Titegroup for most of the shooting Unique or Bullseye used to be used in. Meters way better, accuracy & velocity about the same, cleaner burning and $30/lb last time I bought it. Long way of saying No, I will not be paying $60/lb for Unique.

some other flavors of powder are now at 70

This morning, Powder Valley had 2400 for $354.99 per 8 lb jug ($44.37 per lb), and Unique for $47.99 per 1 lb bottle. Right as I was getting on their site, they sold their last 8 lb jug of Unique.

So what is the price to your door?

Wow……I’ve got almost $500 worth sitting on my powder shelf ! memtb

No, I won't pay that much for Unique. It's great powder in various cartridges but, not that great. Herco is close in burning rate. Just a little slower.

when's the last time you seen Herco ... ? my bet it's just as high when you find it

Imagine that! Went to the market today ,ain't no different! Plenty of unique on the shelf today.

Hodgden is starting to out price alliant, even the cheaper hodgden powders like longshot or H335 were $55 at my local academy.

How many hours of shooting fun will you get out of a pound of Unique? Then calculate the unit cost per hour. Bullets and primers are a bigger per-shot cost anyway.

Maybe six months ago I was visiting one of my LGS's and found an 8#'r of Bullseye for $210. It's been years since I have used it but it came home.

Terry Wieland has published a couple of pieces on powders everyone should try to keep on hand. Unique and Bullseye were among them. Just before things started getting tight in 2020, I stumbled onto some stuff I used and snagged it. Since then I’ve only picked up a pound or two of powder and a brick of golden (apparently) CCI41s. With some exceptions, I’m pretty flexible about what I shoot and how I feed them, so I’ll get by very well with what’s on hand, all except shotshells which are an ongoing expense, but not too awful right now.

I see what you're saying about availability but, I have some of it and do use it. As far as seeing it in stores or online, I've not looked.

Unique & Universal are side by side on the burn chart

Why not sub Universal for Unique ??

https://hodgdonpowderco.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/updatedburnrateschart-1.pdf

Universal is Hodgdon's answer to Unique.

I've used it interchangeably quite a bit, but with a disclaimer: I don't dance around anywhere near max loads in anything I shoot but if I did I would knuckle down to obeying published loads for both powders. Being side by side on a burn rate chart doesn't indicate how closely respective powders behave pressure-wise in hotter loads.