I'm getting set up to load for my incoming .380 auto. I have literally pounds of Unique as I use it in my 45 Colt, .44 Special, & .38 Special. Been using it for 40 years. Always worked very well. I haven't used any Bullseye in decades . . . no special reason, just haven't. I picked up a pound of Bullseye the other day to use with some bullets that Ed Harris had sent me for the .380 & .38 special. As I said, I have a lot of Unique & thought that I would set up my LEE turret press & Pro-Auto-Disk powder measure for the .380 using Unique. I found quickly that Unique does not meter well/consistently when throwing the very small charges that the .380 Auto requires. With that I thought that it's either Bullseye or Titegroup. I grabbed the Bullseye off from the shelf & set the powder measure up with a disk using the #30 hole. It gave me a VERY consistent 2.7 grains of Bullseye every time. I'm going to be shooting a Ranch Dog clone by Accurate 358-098R bullet. After cross referencing different manuals I found a max load for that size bullet from the 49th Lyman manual to be 3.1 grains of Bullseye. I didn't want to start with the max of course. So I chose the smallest of the LEE auto-disk sizes which is # 30 giving me 2.7 grains. I think that that is a safe starting point. I do have two adjustable charge bars for that powder measure but those are set for my .45 Colt & .44 Special and I declined to change them. Anyway, it was good to find a powder that meters so well. Pat
If someone else had of done to me what I did to myself . . . I'd have killed him. Humility is an asset. Heh - heh.