I have always heard about how dirty Unique is. I bet I’ve burned twice as much of it as all other pistol powders combined since I’ve been loading. It simply gives the results I want with the most easily found data available and has always been a mainstay anywhere powders were found, at least until recently.
Curiously, I happened onto a big jug of PowerPistol when not much else was available and have been using it. It produces more soot and smoke than Unique from the 60 year old 8# keg I also have under my bench. Both shoot great so I don’t worry about the “dirtiness”.
If I could only have one pistol powder from now on it would be Unique. I have more or less standardized on loads that use it in 9mm, 38, 357, 44 Special and Mag, and 45 auto. I’m sure it wouldn’t take much tinkering to come up with a good load for the 32 either. In all these cartridges it produces all of the accuracy and velocity I require with the bullet weights I like. No fussing, not magic tricks.
