Hodgdon Universal, use or sell?

I've ended up with oddball powders. I've developed loads that work and a lot that don't work so well. In lean times it's good to have options. I write everything down so I have an idea of what works. Unless you think you've played with it for all its worth, keep playing.

Great 357 and 45 acp powder

tightgroup tiger said:

I'd buy it too! My Hornady measure works well with it. I've heard others complain about it metering poorly, but I don't have much of problem with it for some reason. My recipe for 9mm is 4.3 grs of universal with a 124gr jhp bullet at 1.25 OAL. I admit I get more velocity from BE-86 though.

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My Hornady powder measure absolutely hates it. I get .5-1.0gr differences between drops. Bought a Hornady Vibratory trickler so I could drop low and trickle up, and Universal wouldn't trickle. I had more luck with the Lyman manual trickler, but got fed up loading 9mm as if it was precision rifle. Thought to just cut my losses and quit using it when a steal came up for the Frankford Arsenal Intellidropper. Now I don't care what the powder is...I use the FA Intellidropper with every powder. Once in a while it'll drop a bit over...never more than 0.1gr, and I can live with that.