I did a search on Nickle Brass and only came up with answers on Rifle Brass. How about Pistol Nickle Brass?

I can get 500 pieces of 40 cal nickle brass for $5.99.
Does it reload just as good as Brass?

Yes, and in my case feeds better, plus that is an insane price!

I really don't care for it in rifle cartridges, but have used it for straight walled handgun rounds and it workds just fine. And at $5.99/500, I'd be stocking up.

It works well in my 45-70, but that is sort of like a pistol cartridge...never tried it in a bottleneck cartridge except factory BSTs.

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Originally posted by RugerNiner:
I did a search on Nickle Brass and only came up with answers on Rifle Brass. How about Pistol Nickle Brass?

I can get 500 pieces of 40 cal nickle brass for $5.99.
Does it reload just as good as Brass?

Nickle plated brass cleans up with litle or no effort at all and is not hard on dies as some may think. It is a soft plateing only about .0005 thick. It works great in leather belt loops as it doesn't "green" up over time.

I use nickel in both rifle and pistol and I like it. If you have two similar sized cartridges having one nickel and one brass makes it easy to sort. Never had a problem with them scratching dies and the other horror stories I have read.

With handguns you are usually using carbide dies.
Nickeled cases clean up well and cannot scratch the carbide die.

I use quite a bit of nickel brass, primarily for inentification. I have a number of guns in duplicate cartridges, so I shoot nickel in one gun and traditional brass in the other. I have had no problems with nickel.