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| Hands down W-231. Not a pistol ctg out there that cannont be loaded with W-231.
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| While there are a lot of new pistol powders out there I would pick Unique. You can load the calibers you listed fairly light, to max loads with Unique.
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| +1 for Unique! |
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| Again, Unique. There's applications for it in just about everything, be it pistol, rifle, or shotgun. |
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| It`s not called Unique for nothing, it works well in almost all handgun cartridges.
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| If you knew that the world was on the brink of collapse (like next week maybe) and you had to pick one powder to last you for the rest of your life - Unique would be my number one choice. It can be used to load any pistol cartridge, all shotgun shells, and many rifle cartridges. JMHO Ray
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| quote: Originally posted by 30378:
Hands down W-231. Not a pistol ctg out there that cannont be loaded with W-231.
Hardly.  W231/HP38 is just a bit fast for anything in the 40 but midrange loads. A med. burner like Unique or WSF will cover everything you listed w/o pushing pressure envelopes trying to get to factory vel.
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| Alliant's Power Pistol and Hodgdon's Universal Clays are very similar to Unique and will serve as well.
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| There are many good ones but Unique gets my vote. It will work well for all that you listed; "best" for some, not quite as good as for others. GOOD LUCK and GOOD SHOOTING!!!
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| To get the most recoil is use LIL'GUN or H110/W296 in the 38 sp.
To get the most recoil in the 380, 40, and 45acp I use Power Pistol.
The absolute most recoil from a 40 is with 800X, 200 gr bullets, and double compression, but there is no way to deal with the recoil given the volume available for recoil springs in conventional pistols. |
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| Hodgdon's Titegroup has become my go to powder for light loads. |
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| quote: Originally posted by tnekkcc:
To get the most recoil is use LIL'GUN or H110/W296 in the 38 sp.
To get the most recoil in the 380, 40, and 45acp I use Power Pistol.
The absolute most recoil from a 40 is with 800X, 200 gr bullets, and double compression, but there is no way to deal with the recoil given the volume available for recoil springs in conventional pistols.
Sorry T, but what does the most recoil have to do w/ best powder choice? 
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| + whatever for Unique. Best powder of it's type going. Jerry
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| Best all around: Unique.
You can more than adequately cover all handgun cartridges with Bullseye, Unique and 2400.
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