Anyone use Universal Clays?

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  • John from MD

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    May 12, 2005
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    A fellow club member is selling some Universal Clays and I have never used it. Would it be a good powder for a suppressed 9mm?
     

    Mack C-85

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    A fellow club member is selling some Universal Clays and I have never used it. Would it be a good powder for a suppressed 9mm?
    Don't know about pistol, but I have used it for 20 gauge reloads. BTW - I would be interested in buying it, if you're not interested.

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    trickg

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    Jul 22, 2008
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    I'm getting ready to start trying Universal in some of my loading for pistol. As others up the thread have said, it's like Unique, but cleaner, and because it's spherical, it probably meters better too.
     

    Melnic

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    Dec 27, 2012
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    Thx for posting. I recently was turned on to Clays for clean burning but use it in shotgun reloading.
    I Also have some Universal Clays and hearing its clean burning, like Unique, tells me that I should use that for my sub sonic suppressed 9mm load I plan to work on.
    125gr cast powder coated 9mm pills. Hoping I'll get a load that will be subsonic in a Sub2K but still cycle a G19 well.

    Unique does REALLY well with the burn when doing light loads and lots of empty case fill. (yes, you gotta double or triple check you did not double charge). Does Universal do the same?
     

    Biggfoot44

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    Aug 2, 2009
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    Hodgon doesn't officially say so , but Universal matches Unique for both charge weight and charge volume , within lot to lot variation , for 99% of Unique loads .

    So yes , the load density will be substantially similar .
     

    trickg

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    Hodgon doesn't officially say so , but Universal matches Unique for both charge weight and charge volume , within lot to lot variation , for 99% of Unique loads .

    So yes , the load density will be substantially similar.
    I didn't realize the volume would be that similar - just the weight. Universal is somewhat finer grained than Unique - I'd always figured that the charge weights would be able the same, but that Unique would take up more space in the case, not that it matters that much - both are fairly economical powders.
     

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