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In the interest of safety I need to point out that there is no such thing as “Clays Universal” powder. There is the fast “Clays” and there is the slower “Universal”. Hodgdon originally introduced the latter as “Universal Clays” - a terrible confusing name which greatly increased the risk of less careful reloaders substituting “Universal” load data when using “Clays” powder. The result could easily be an overload with the imaginable consequences - see Hodgdon’s .44 Mag data below. They renamed the powder “Universal” some years ago but as we see here, the risk of confusing the two still exists.