Is there any advantage of useing nickle plated brass for reloading?

I find it easier to keep clean....it don't tarnish in leather loops and it easily identifies a special load from another.

It ,ight help to identify your ammo from a friends as well!

Other than that it has no value as far as I can tell.

I heard that they were harder on your dies. make them wear about faster etc

From varnint al's page, "forget nickle brass"

Its hard , wears out dies, its like sandpaper, dont want bits of it going down your barrel

Ed,

I'm with Vapo-D on this one. I really can't say if there's any advantage one way or another, to me anyway.

I use nickeled brass for some loads, especially those that will sit from a couple days to several weeks in my leather cartridge holders and to differentiate loads used in various rifles; for example some that are Neck Sized vs. Full-Length Sized. My reloading record keeping is good, just another helpful load I.D tool. Never noticed any difference in accuracy or longevity between regular vanilla-flavored brass & nickled plated brass either.

If nickled brass is wearing out my 1972 .30/06 Sprg. RCBS Die Set that continues to load one-hole three-shot groups for my rifles and spitting nasties down my barrels - Well, Gee; I just haven't noticed all the mileage and stress I must be putting on them - shucks; I guess I'll run right out and buy another set?

Same goes for the countless hundreds of .222 Remington, .223 Remington, .243 Winchester nickeled cases that have been thru my Full-Length & Neck Die Die Sets, Barrels & Rifle Chambers.



Not being Sassy to anyone here - just can't figure out what all the hoopla's about on this topic. Life's all about Choices.

nickeled brass was brought out years ago for police that carried their 38 rounds in leather belts. the acid in the belts would turn the brass green, but not hurt the nickel. It has no advantage or disadvantage except like VD says to color code ammo

There is no advantage for using nickle plated brass for reloading. Nickle cases have to be lubed also.

For trimming, deburring, primer pocket uniforming, and annealing the non-plated high quality brass has the advantage - no peeling of the plating and more uniform annealing.

Not to get too far off topic, but, my friend had some nickle factory loads in .270 Win. They would chamber in his father's, brother's, and grandfather's rifle... but not his. Untouched Rem 700's and Win 70's.

Ever heard of a problem like that?

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Originally posted by CharlieHo:
Not to get too far off topic, but, my friend had some nickle factory loads in .270 Win. They would chamber in his father's, brother's, and grandfather's rifle... but not his. Untouched Rem 700's and Win 70's.

Ever heard of a problem like that?

I believe you.....but the chances this is caused by Nickel is extremely remote. The plating on these cases is about .00005 thick. (50 millionths of an inch) sixty times that is equal to the thickness of a human hair.

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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Originally posted by CharlieHo:
Not to get too far off topic, but, my friend had some nickle factory loads in .270 Win. They would chamber in his father's, brother's, and grandfather's rifle... but not his. Untouched Rem 700's and Win 70's.

Ever heard of a problem like that?

I believe you.....but the chances this is caused by Nickel is extremely remote. The plating on these cases is about .00005 thick. (50 millionths of an inch) sixty times that is equal to the thickness of a human hair.

Kinda what I thought too. He must have an extremely tight chamber.

Maybe I should buy the rifle

I like nickle brass. Used it for many years with no problems I am aware of. My .223 is brass and the .222 is nickle--I find that handy. And besides----nickle brass is 50% cheaper than dime brass.

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Originally posted by carpetman:
And besides----nickle brass is 50% cheaper than dime brass.

Took me a second, now I gotta wipe coffe off my monitor Thanks alot