Have used Red Dot since 1972. Cant get any around here any where! (First time in 40 yrs I couldn't get Red Dot) Tough because I use Red Dot in my 9mm, .38 Spl and 45ACP loads. I have a Little Dandy powder dispenser that I use for standard pistol rounds and had the right inserts to throw the powder weight I use for each caliber.
Looked at my powder supplies and found I had over 4 lbs. of Unique that I use for my 45 Colt. and several other loads. Tried the other Little Dandy inserts I have and none came close to the charge I needed for the .45.
Fired up a friends lathe and made some new little Dandy Insert blanks. Then started drilling the powder cavity in one of the new parts I had made. I drilled close to where I figured I needed to be, inserted it in the Little Dandy and the charge was too light. Put it back in the drill press and drilled a little deeper. Had to repeat this several times and finally got it to dispense the load I needed with virtually no variation! I was actually surprised as my scale showed such minor variations, I re-checked the scale twice! I could have used my regular Lyman 55 powder dispenser and scale but its so much slower than the Little Dandy for standard pistol rounds.
Well it may not be Red Dot, but the Chrono showed the Unique load was within 30 FPS of my Red Dot loadings. Accuracy seems about the same. Wow I am a happy camper now as I usually shoot around 1000 rounds of 45 ACP a month. Didn't know what I was going to do? Hallelujah The idea I had come up with worked!!
It was well worth the work and now I can carry on shooting 45ACP as much as I want.
I would have gladly traded Unique for some Red Dot but no one I knew, had any. Now I have enough Red Dot left for my 9mm and .38 Spl loads to last me another 3 months.
Any one around the Fort Wayne, IN. area want to trade some Red Dot for Unique? (chuckle)
Sure Hope Alliant gets their product back on the shelves soon and the hoarders dont keep clearing
it out!
Looked at my powder supplies and found I had over 4 lbs. of Unique that I use for my 45 Colt. and several other loads. Tried the other Little Dandy inserts I have and none came close to the charge I needed for the .45.
Fired up a friends lathe and made some new little Dandy Insert blanks. Then started drilling the powder cavity in one of the new parts I had made. I drilled close to where I figured I needed to be, inserted it in the Little Dandy and the charge was too light. Put it back in the drill press and drilled a little deeper. Had to repeat this several times and finally got it to dispense the load I needed with virtually no variation! I was actually surprised as my scale showed such minor variations, I re-checked the scale twice! I could have used my regular Lyman 55 powder dispenser and scale but its so much slower than the Little Dandy for standard pistol rounds.
Well it may not be Red Dot, but the Chrono showed the Unique load was within 30 FPS of my Red Dot loadings. Accuracy seems about the same. Wow I am a happy camper now as I usually shoot around 1000 rounds of 45 ACP a month. Didn't know what I was going to do? Hallelujah The idea I had come up with worked!!
It was well worth the work and now I can carry on shooting 45ACP as much as I want.
I would have gladly traded Unique for some Red Dot but no one I knew, had any. Now I have enough Red Dot left for my 9mm and .38 Spl loads to last me another 3 months.
Any one around the Fort Wayne, IN. area want to trade some Red Dot for Unique? (chuckle)
Sure Hope Alliant gets their product back on the shelves soon and the hoarders dont keep clearing
it out!